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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On big teams a lot of younger kids could care less about A meets[/quote]

Agree.  When they are younger, there are just as many non-A kids as A kids.  They all have a good time.  It's about 13+ where the divide starts.   The kids at A meets and all the adjacent extra meets spend hours and hours together.  Of course they are a clique.  The social dynamics of older kids also get more complicated.  At our large higher division pool, most non-A meet teens just drop out.  [/quote]

I hazard to say older kids drop out of swim there are a multitude of reasons including other interests like other sports where there's a big summer season component (e.g., lacrosses, baseball), other camps. I don't know that i would pin the the reason why older kids drop out solely based on  "oh, I'm not fast enough to swim in A meets".[/quote]

Long time summer swim parent here.  I don't know.  The same names show up year after year for the A meet. You can watch them age through the team.  If what you were saying was the main cause and it had zero to do with being in A meets, an equal proportion of the A kids would end up dropping out.  Seems kind of notable that the A meet kids all stay and the B meet kids mostly drop out as teens.

It is what it is.  It's a structure that creates 2 different experiences kids are having.  What teenager is going to keep hanging around to spend a long evening at a B meet with a silly theme and go to some pep rallies.  Most of them aren't.  The B meet swimmers who stick around as teens on our team end up junior coaches.  Which that makes sense to me.  A paid job and leadership opportunity.[/quote]

DP, and I think you are confusing correlation with causation. Kids who swim A meets like swimming and put in the work (you would assume). They're less likely to drop out not because they're fast, but because they enjoy swim enough to be fast.[/quote]

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