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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t agree.  Fine for summer, which is fun but not for winter when kids are using these USA motivational times for bugger things.  Would be too confusing.  [/quote]

An alternative would be de-emphasizing big “championship level” meets for age groupers, since it seriously limits swimmers who happen to be born the wrong month of the year. It’s clearly demonstrable that the best age group swimmers on average are the oldest in their age division, and some clubs/LSCs focus on one meet above all else -choosing practice groups, relays, etc based around that one meet. This creates an awful relative age effect situation that rewards some kids based on the luck of their birthday and impedes others due to their relative lack of luck in when they were born. It leads to a lot of attrition from the sport. Meets of relatively equal importance scattered throughout the season for young swimmers would be a good alternative. The situation is different for senior swimmers. [/quote]

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