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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NVSL voted this rule after major lobbying fromTeam Reps who had children w/ summer birthdays. That is the truth of it. There was some discussion of at least choosing a summer swim meet date (usually 3rd Sat in June) but two parent reps w/ kids’ birthdays on or about June 1 and June 15 claimed it would be administratively easier to just arbitrarily (and conveniently) choose June 1 as the date. Coincidentally team rep’s child broke the pool record by lowering the 11-12 year old record as a biologically aged 13 year old. Over the years, most of our pool records have been broken by the age advantage. 9 year olds beat the records of 8 and understand… 19 year old division 1 swimmers who turn 19 at the begin I g of June can now compete as 18 year olds.  I was resentful  but accept it is what it is. They just need to change the record titles for accuracy or add an asterisk to the records. [/quote]

I agree the biggest disadvantage to regular swimmers are kids that turn 9 in June that compete as 8 & under and kids that turn 19 and are division 1 college swimmers.   It is an advantage in other cases, but most obvious in those two.[/quote]

No way. The absolutely biggest disadvantages are the 13 year olds swimming against 11/12 year olds or a 15 year old swimming against 13/14 year olds. This is purely because of puberty. A 13 year old girl may be fully done growing or mostly done growing. An 11 year old may be years from puberty. A 15 year old boy is likely within a few inches of his final height and a newly 13 year old may not even be in puberty yet. The 19 year old who swam division 1 has an advantage for sure but not like this. Go watch those boys or girls in these age groups line up at a meet. The exception is breast - bc height is so impt there. [/quote]

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