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So Goldfish is NOT it.  Looking for a program my 7 year old could start now to be prepared for a summer league.[/quote]

I don't understand--is this for your neighborhood/recreation association team?
You DC will get taught the additional things they need to know learn how to swim better on the summer league team, which is recreational anyway. I thougth most pools/clubs stratify kids based on ability anyway.

This is like getting doing private basketball, baseball or soccer training for a rec league.  SMH. This area is crazy. :roll: [/quote]

Summer teams vary so much in this area.  If you find a pool with a very small team (less than 60 kids) then they will pretty much any kid with a pulse to fill a lane and teach them what they need to know.  Once you get to teams over 120, it is a very different story.  They generally  have swimmers and some very good ones.  So they have levels to their kids and where kids are placed for the summer.  It sounds like OP is trying to give her kid a chance to getting on the competitive team.  The minimum of that is usually back and free - 25 metes if under the age of 8 and 50 meters if older than that.  If your kid is legal in fly or breaststroke - particularly at a young age they will take you and put you in a lane.[/quote]

At most pools, during the summer, any kid can swim in the mid-week meets against other pools in at least one stroke regardless of ability (minimum requirement being making it the length of the pool for her 7yo). Competitive teams are the ones swimming Saturday mornings. [/quote] 
The idea of being at interminable B meet for my kid to do one lap of freestyle makes my head hurt. [/quote]

You don’t have to stay for the whole meet. [/quote]
Except the whole point of summer swim is the fun swim atmosphere, bringing your kid to swim one of the first events and then leaving isn’t the point. [/quote]

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