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[quote=Anonymous]I was a competitive club swimmer for 10 years, from age 8 until age 18.

I started out well for my age group at 8, in that I could already swim the strokes, and finished out my swim career as an average swimmer.

I wish that I had told my parents in middle school that I did not want to continue club swimming.  The sport really took a lot of my time and my family's time, and though I am grateful for the lifelong focus on health and exercise that it gave me, it also took a lot out of me.

In high school I worked very hard simply to maintain my excellent grades while attending 18 hours of swim practice a week.

I recognized that I was giving up on other things that I had wanted to undertake, like the musicals or summer cultural programs, and it was very frustrating that for all my practice and effort I was never going to get more than two sectionals cuts.

I look fondly back on my summer swim days and my early club years, but looking back I know that I should have  continued only summer swimming and moved on to other extracurriculars by 8th grade.[/quote]

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