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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is ridiculous. I swam in college for a top 15 D1 team and had no where NEAR A times at age 10! Plenty of kids blossom late in swimming. Stop getting so hung up on young swimmers' times and read USA swimming's report on the 10 and Under Wonder.[/quote]
What years did you go to college? Today’s landscape is a lot different. We’ve all seen the 10 and Under Wonder report and it does not mean that the norm in this day and age for swimmers to be B level until HS and all of a sudden take off. [/quote]

You clearly missed the point of the ten and under wonder report- it doesn’t matter that times are different now. What stays the same is the fast kids under ten don’t stay fast bc if so many extraneous variables [/quote]
No, that’s not what the report said. As has been said many times in this thread, if you look at today’s elite swimmers not a single one was a B level 10 year old. There are certainly elite 10 year olds that leave the sport, or aren’t elite any more by the time they are in HS, for any number of reasons, but the elite in the sport in HS and beyond were also elite when they were young. [/quote]

Depending on how "elite" you consider "elite" there are rare exceptions.  My kid got his first A time at 14 as he spent his youth swimming at a low level and prioritizing other sports.  He now has a US open cut and is committed to a Division I swimming program.  He trains with the most elite group at his club and he is the odd ball that didn't "come up" in the elite training groups.  So he's a counter point to the folks saying "it never happens",  but he can also look around and see that his training group isn't full of swimmers with a track record like his. [/quote]

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