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[quote=Anonymous]You can't have kids age up on their birthdays because the season is too short and it would be chaos for teams in terms of figuring out who would swim in which relays and which events. It also does suck for a kid to go from swimming 25 or 50 (and practicing for that) and then swimming 50 or 100 midseason specifically because the short season means they won't have a chance to acclimate. This is different from club swimming where the season is long and it's easier to ease into a new distance and teams (and swimmers) have more time to prepare.

The people demanding they cutoff be changed to August 1 or whatever are being especially petty because this would not change the fact that kids with certain birthdays would be advantaged. I have a kid with a August 5 birthday. She will be just days shy of her 9th birthday when she's competing against 7 year olds. This is "unfair" to the 7 year olds and would still be "unfair" if the cutoff was August 1st. On the other hand she spent an extra year on pre-team when the other kids in her grade aged into the 7-8 and that was a little sad for her. She's also regularly the smallest in her grade and that can be tough in other sports where the cutoffs don't benefit her. Oh well that is life.

Also it is just summer swim. It really does not matter that much and my kids have had years where they did great and that was fun and they also had years where they were consistently the slowest in their age group and they still had fun because they were going to meets with their friends and spending days in the pool and there was the banquet and Fridays and that's really the best part anyway.

Some of you are way to fixated on like the one or two times your kid lost to a child "swimming down" by one month. Let it go. Teach your kid that sometimes that's how it works.[/quote]

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