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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]

Do the same names appear at A meets year after year because those are the kids who do year round swim? While other kids do travel baseball, travel hockey, lacrosse, etc. Because that's what it seems like at our pool - and the older kids drop out because they're busy with other commitments rather than being disappointed in not going to B meets. [/quote]

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