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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is 7 and we joined our neighborhood pool (which is on the smaller side) last summer. This year he can make it across the pool very slowly (but confidently) freestyle and back, but didn't make the team cuz coach didn't think he could survive the hour-long practices (fair). We've taken swim classes during spring and summer since age 5 but he definitely doesn't have the stamina at the moment to do many laps. He is very disappointed to be in the baby pre-team again though and is the biggest kid there. 
His skills would seem perfectly acceptable anywhere else except in Moco where swimming is so damn competitive. I'm wondering if I should just encourage him to accept pre-team, or try to put him in more classes so he can develop that stamina, or ask the coaches if maybe he could join some team practices or what. I'm not that pushy on sports and he just loves to be at the pool with friends (who are on the team, sigh) but he's not asking to do laps year round or anything. [/quote]

They don't have a slow lane at practices where they do more resting in-between laps, especially in the early weeks?  Or they do have this but your kid doesn't have the stamina even for that?

Also makes a difference if your kid was just slow, or slow plus exhausted.  I have a kid who's a very slow swimmer but has plenty of stamina and no problem swimming in a long practice with minimal breaks-- that kind of kid should absolutely be on the team.  But if your kid looked like they were totally wiped out even before they made one length of the pool and barely made it to the end, that might be a legit reason to think even the slow lane for the main team practices would be too much for them this year.  [/quote]

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