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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wholeheartedly agree that the aging up on your actual birthday is the fairest.  We have a january birthday- my kid rocked the december championship meets and is not back at the bottom of the age range and will not be swimming in JO's. Oh well- it happens, no big deal.  I also fully disagree with the idea that the season is 'structured' around the JO competition- it’s not- its another meet.  A fun, competitive meet, but it’s a meet.  I find it frustrating for summer swim that basically all of our pool records are held by kids who are in fact 11 when they break the 9-10 record, etc.  They all have June birthdays.  Certainly wouldn't want to see USA swimming adopt that silly model- and I am confident that they won't.[/quote]

Totally agree with this. I think people get tunnel vision about JO’s. I have a kid who won several events at JO’s at age 10 (not dc area) and he was way more excited about the times he got right after JO’s at a meet with faster Q times, where he placed out of the top 10. If you ask him about his best meet, he names that one, not JO’s. JO’s are a great way for kids to get used to the prelim/final format and swim against kids they have been racing all season, but to think that it should dictate age cutoffs is shortsighted. Swimming is a long game and JO’s is just one of many stepping stones. [/quote]

Agree and once they turn 15 it doesn’t matter at all.  My college swimmer only once made JOs (at 14) because of a bad swimming (late November) birthday.  But he made sectional, NCSA and futures cut as a 16/17 year old.[/quote]

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