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[quote=Anonymous][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]

My kid had like on B time at 10.  Seriously.  Did not even make an A time until she was 12.  When she hit 14 she made five AAA times and by time she was 15 she was making AAAA times. [b]According to DCUM she had zero shots[/b].  But she was small and clumsy, but loved to swim.  She started puberty (growing six inched in the past year) at 14 and probably still has some height coming.  So yea, for all the girls that got their periods at 11, they probably are not going to make huge leaps at 14 and 15, but some kids are late bloomers.
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what would you base anything on what's posted in DCUM? There are going to be outliers (those make big leaps and those who were fast as a 10 and were super fast as teens) and then there's going to be some in between in addition to those who slow when they were 10 and continued to be slow after puberty.[/quote]

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