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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it does stink though.  End of may birthday going up against those 2 years older.  All the top swimmers on our team and we have many are summer birthdays.

But there is really no fair equitable way to do it, unless like in the winter where [b]you swim your actual age/ age up on your birthday[/b].[/quote]

Summer swim is 2 months.

It seems like a logistical nightmare to have kids swim in two different age groups if they have a summer birthday. If the cutoff was in May, then kids with spring birthdays would be complaining.

A bunch of kids changing age groups in the middle of the season is not a solution. [/quote]

It is a logistical nightmare which is why they don't do it.  It's summer swim.

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Years ago NVSL did this age up on your actual birthday. part of the rule also included that in order to swim at all stars you had to have a time in that age group. So if you swam divisionals as a 14 and made all stars, but then aged up to 15 in the week in between you could not swim All Stars even if the time you got in he 13-14 group was faster than the top 18 in the 15-18 group.

it's a logistical nighmare to age up on actual birthday in a 7 week swim season. Do people really think a 7 week difference makes or breaks things? Either way you slice it there will always be kids on the younger and kids on the older side.

I have one spring b-day and 1 summer b-day and both have made all stars. Age matters some, but so does just being a top swimmer. [/quote]

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