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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NVSL used to require you to age up if you had a summer birthday.  The rule was changed 10 years ago?  Maybe 12.  They made a bunch of changes at the time.  I think it was tough on coaches and would change relay teams mid-summer, etc.  But this was before all the software that teams now use.

It would be easy now to go back to that rule and not have it as disruptive.  I think that there is something to be said for it since at least with summer it is crazy to have a 13 year old swimming as a 11-12 or a 15 year old in 13-14.  Or a 19 year old in the 15-18 group.  [/quote]

You can change the rule, but my kid’s birthday was the same day as divisionals. We’re a mid-tier pool and it’s unlikely my kid will ever swim all-stars, but summer swim is SO short. So some years he would swim with his “correct” age group through divisionals, other years he would switch age groups after the regular meet and swim in a new age group at divisionals.  I don’t think his swimming ability is changing much the week of his birthday.

What purpose does making kids with June/July birthdays switch age groups kid season accomplish except punish those kids? It’s not just the meet placement. At our pool it means changing practice time and moving away from your friends to join a different group.  There is no way that a kid who is technically 8 for the first 3 meets is magically a different swimmer the day they turn 9. 
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Yep.  [/quote]

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