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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, did your DD practice/swim the entire year? There are kids who are on year-round swim team and then they join summer swim and obviously are the best. I know my DC’s several friends who did summer swim last year but were on the B team and were very slow. Their parents signed them for year-round swim and they significantly improved and made the A team this year. That made me think that summer swim is just a way for the parents to show off how hard their kids practiced the whole year and win everything..so that can be very stressful for everyone involved. Especially if your child did swim the entire year and is not measuring up to the other kids. I really thought summer swim was was supposed to be for fun. [/quote]

OP here - yes she did and this is part of what was sad for me. She swam 2-3 days a week all year. I sat through almost every one of those lessons. It was a stroke clinic with a highly respected coach in NOVA, not club swimming, but I took seriously those people saying it’s more important to get your strokes right. Well she DQ’d in two strokes after being told by the stroke clinic coaches she was swimming them legally for about half the year. And the kids who were swimming B meets last year who did club swimming got A meet times this year. So it seems like the stroke clinic was a mistake if the goal was A meet swimming. But anyway my DD has such a great attitude about it. She loves swimming and loves summer swim, doesn’t care that she’s not swimming A meets, and set her own personal goal to be legal in her favorite stroke by the end of the summer. I’m so proud of her! As the other posters on here said, if she’s exercising and having fun, that’s what’s important. [/quote]

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