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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 7 year old daughter is dominating the 8 and unders this summer and is at the top for her team and in the league in most strokes. It’s 100% because of swimming 4-5 days a week this past year. She will swim 4 days a week this next year before summer swim and I expect the same will happen next summer. It’s all about those who can pay and take them to club swimming. She does have heart and focus for it, but very little physical prowess. Club swimmers will almost always win. We have an exceptional swimmer on our summer team that is physically gifted in all sports and wins first in all his races and doesn’t do year round swim. But he is the exception for sure. [/quote]

Be careful with burnout and overuse injuries with putting a 7 year old in swim 4-5x per week. I’m a former D1 swimmer and my kids and a bunch of teammates’ kids are now starting swim. Almost all of us are limiting our kids to twice per week as long as possible. We all agree it’s better for them to do multiple sports early and develop different muscle groups and overall body awareness/athleticism. A 7 year old who swims a lot will get passed by kids who started out not swimming much and ramp up later at age 9-10. That can be hard on the kid. [/quote]

+1 
My college roommate, also a college swimmer, feels pretty strongly about this with their 2 kids. [/quote]

Pp here - my kids do year round, non competitive homeschool swim. It’s all about fitness and there’s no racing. They love it and it’s great exercise, social and zero pressure. I should have started with that. I won’t allow them to move to the competitive part because of burnout. [/quote]

That's really sad you will not let them do a more competitive team.  Most have different levels for kids and there has never been any pressure in where we swim to move up/go faster and it's only those top families/groups that are the ultra competitive.  Don't hold your kids back.  Most don't require meets although its recommended until the higher levels.[/quote]

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