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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This makes a huge difference for swimmers. Consider this:

A 13 year old with a summer birthday is swimming against kids who are a month or less into the age of 11. In most cases, the 13 year old has an adult’s body. You can see when the kids line up. Same with making cuts for certain meets. Some kids can make those cuts weeks or days before aging out of that group and others would have to make that cut days into the new age. For example:

A kid who is 12 years and 11 months old will almost always more make the cut over a kid who is 11 years and 2 weeks old. Of course there are exceptions, but they are fairly rare.

My kid has a bad birthday for lots of swim cuts.

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They don’t have a bad birthday they have competitive parents.  My swim kid will be the slowest at any age group.  So what.  [/quote]

There are so many swim "seasons" that no one has a bad birthday all around.  You have championship meets in the April (short course), August (Long course)  and December (short course) for year-around club competitions and summer swimming uses a July cut-off.  Everyone has a bad birthday for one of those championship meets.  [/quote]

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