Reply to Summer swim kids swimming in “wrong” age group

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "Summer swim kids swimming in “wrong” age group "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The official rules from the 1950s and 1960s show the June 1 cutoff.  Does anyone have evidence it was different from 2004-2011 or is this all heresy ?  The story of team administrators changing it to suit their own kid's birthday is especially dubious since the rule is in line with the league's original rule as well as that of pretty much all other major summer swim leagues.    [/quote]

I just asked an old timer on our team about this out of curiosity. They were like oh yea it was changed to June 1. For as long as they could remember you aged up in your birthday.  She collaborated that this reform as well as as changing the 8&u relays happ me at the same time.  It was pushed through by some active NVSL. [/quote]

This all sounds like pool gossip. The NVSL website has the rules from 1965 and 1956 posted. In them the rule is June 1. All other major summer leagues in this area (and the few I checked around the country - including the largest Atlanta Swim Association) use a May/June cutoff. Having them age up on their birthday must have made NVSL an outlier and frankly seems like bad practice.  It makes sense for year round swimming since that is after all year-round. Every year you will be among the oldest at some meets and the youngest at some other meets so it evens out. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics