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[quote=Anonymous]I’m home for Thanksgiving and for some reason my parents still have some of my old swim medals hanging on a wall in their basement. I looked at them and found two from my best two events when I was 9-10. The meet was actually 3 days before I aged up to 11. The times were AAA by today’s standards. That was my second year swimming year round and I probably practiced twice a week.

I went on to get junior national cuts in those events in HS, and swam at a D1 program that was not top 25 but somewhere in top 50 where I continued to improve. I did have to work through a rough plateau around 14-15. I started working on other strokes during that time which helped me become more versatile later.

In my opinion and experience there has to be some natural talent apparent by age 10 if D1 is to be a realistic option. But there also has to be a willingness to work very hard and push through the inevitable slumps. Plenty of fast kids quit when the going gets rough and there are more fun things to do with your time.

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