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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no data to back this up (only anecdotal experience) but it seems more common for younger AAA/AAAA swimmers to burn out or plateau and not become elite senior swimmers than it does for B/BB swimmers to become elite.

People need to be realistic. If your 10 year old has B/BB times they are probably going to stay at the BB/A level at best, maybe AA if they really work at it, unless they literally just started swimming. There’s a natural level of talent that’s either there or it’s not. I was a AAA swimmer by my second year of winter swim. It still took hard work to get to the elite level. I don’t see this happening for my own kids even if they went “all in” on swimming and worked very hard. They don’t have the natural talent that I had, and that’s ok. [/quote]

IDK about that.  My son was a very meh swimmer until 13, never made JOs did not have any A cuts.  A few things occurred that year, he started to grow, he was given an opportunity to move to the more competitive group on his team and he gave up tennis and baseball in favor of swimming.  He had sectional cuts at the end of 8th grade and NCSA cuts by 10th. [/quote]

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