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[quote=Anonymous]Guys, we’re talking about kids swim. While it’s fun to make cut times for certain meets, and a bummer when the cutoffs don’t work in your favor, it’s… kids swim. As others have said, if they’re a true phenomenon, age cut offs don’t really matter anyway. There are plenty of 13 year olds making top 10 times in the 13/14 age group. If your kid was that good, they would too. Relax. By the time they’re in high school and any of this matters (even questionable that it does in high school) the cutoffs matter much less. In the meantime, the benefits your kid gets from swimming include learning to work hard, challenge themselves, and learn to deal with occasionally disappointment - whether that’s due to a bad race or I’ll timed birthday. Those are things you should be embracing rather than whining that the system is unfair for poor Johnny. - mom of two swimmers, one with a good birthday and one without[/quote]
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