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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the weirdest 22 page thread. Summer swim across the country has the same cut off (my summer birthday children have experienced it in multiple states). USA Swimming has a rolling birth date cut off. Hockey, [b]baseball[/b], basketball…they all have cut offs. Read Malcom Gladwell’s book on outliers - he explains this very well. I don’t think there is any point to trying to change it. Everything has some arbitrary cut off. [/quote]

Baseball is played in the spring … before summer swim … and has a cutoff several months after June 1 … and they changed their cutoff in recent years … so it doesn’t support your argument … at all. [/quote]
Swim is also very different from team sports. Sure, you can say summer swim is a “team” sport but it is not a team sport in the way hockey or basketball are where the kids need to play together and develop some chemistry in order to be successful as a team. You don’t need cohesion with relays, plug in the fastest swimmers and keep it moving, and everything else is individual times. Kids should just age up on their birthday like they do in club swim. You can try and pretend that it is all about the team in summer swim but what are people most obsessed with….individual all-stars, so spare me the whole “but the team” argument. [/quote]

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