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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The lack of meets will hurt the serious year around swimmers.  Particularly the  current HS sophomores and juniors  if they aspire to swim in college. I have a senior and a freshman.  My senior has many senior friends who have stopped swimming because they don't plan to swim in college so "what's the point of swimming this year with no real chance of a final HS season."  The senior who already know they are swimming in college will continue for conditioning but it is difficult to do the grind of 20 plus hours/week with no actual goal to be working toward in the next 6 months. My HS freshman, would have been working toward JO cuts, sectional cuts, metro cuts etc. Those things do keep you motivated. I hope he will continue . . . but we shall see. [/quote]

20 hours per week? Well, I think we’ve discovered the motivation problem. [/quote]

20 hours per week is pretty standard for a serious high school swimmer. I think I did more than that actually when including dry land work. I would have hated just practicing with no meets. I worked hard at practice but I was never one of the fastest during workouts. But I almost always performed well at meets and could beat teammates who were faster than me at practice. I would have quit with no meets to motivate me. [/quote]

Maybe your child does not enjoy it and only doing it for you.   Winning is not everything. Enjoying the sport is far more important to me.   You want your child swimming for college so you don’t have to pay.   [/quote]

I agree that enjoying the sport is the most important thing. Let's not pretend to know more about each other than we do.  How about you stop telling people what they want and I'll refrain from telling you you're jealous because my Academic All American already has a scholarship (which we don't need to pay for college BTW).
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Good brag.  You aren't the only one with a smart kid.  Mine gets very high test scores and straight A's.  I'm not worried about a scholarship as we love ours and have saved for birth for college.  I don't need handouts from others.[/quote]

Nearly all 10 year olds in UMC households get good grades and test scores.  Check back when you know something about HS athletics land college admissions.[/quote]

DP: but the whole thing started with you saying those kids, including yours, no longer have the motivation to swim.[/quote]

I never said my kid was not motivated,  I said it is harder with out meets.  Then you went off on a crazy tangent assuming my kids only swim for me or becuase I want them to get a scholarship.  It's clear you dont know much about competitive swimming or about motivation. . . and that's fine.  I suggest you read the book Mindset that will explain the important role feedback (in this case one's own swim times) has in motivation.

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"DP" means 'different poster'[/quote]

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