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Anonymous wrote:

My child swims with a club and likes it but also wants to swim with a friend. We would only compete for our current club and it would end up being five days of swimming a week for 75 minute sessions. Is this crazy? What am I getting myself into besides the money and time?

Okay, I'll bite, aside from time/money, you have two coaches who don't communicate potentially telling your swimmer two different things. Maybe one coach prefers your swimmer to length out their stroke while the other just wants them to turn over quickly. How is your 9/10 year old going to navigate that? I had a girl who swam for two different teams and in the end I had to ask her to pick one, because what the other coach was doing was the total opposite of what I wanted her to do, and her progress and meet results were suffering because she ended up doing a mix of both which wasn't good.

Yes crazy and pointless. IT's not like baseketball or baseball. You barely talk during swim practice anyway.

Usually club teams have up to 6 practices a week. How can you even fit in another club team?

I do know one child who did it at a younger age to hold his spot at one team while temporarily swimming at another. It was a complicated situation and had to do with parents' work and siblings.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you tell the clubs? I cannot them allowing this.

A little different OP but my kids swim with their club team three days a week and also swim with their summer team year round two days a week. My club doesn't know that they swim with another team. They do not compete in PVS with their summer team so that is not an issue. I am sure there are many kids who swim for a few different groups at the same time. As long as the kid is okay with it, it is fine.

Most everyone does this: club team, summer team, and HS team. Coaches know and encourage it, especially the summer swimming since it is FUN!

Two different club teams is different, though.

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My child swims with a club and likes it but also wants to swim with a friend. We would only compete for our current club and it would end up being five days of swimming a week for 75 minute sessions. Is this crazy? What am I getting myself into besides the money and time?

Okay, I'll bite, aside from time/money, you have two coaches who don't communicate potentially telling your swimmer two different things. Maybe one coach prefers your swimmer to length out their stroke while the other just wants them to turn over quickly. How is your 9/10 year old going to navigate that? I had a girl who swam for two different teams and in the end I had to ask her to pick one, because what the other coach was doing was the total opposite of what I wanted her to do, and her progress and meet results were suffering because she ended up doing a mix of both which wasn't good.

Anonymous wrote:

My child swims with a club and likes it but also wants to swim with a friend. We would only compete for our current club and it would end up being five days of swimming a week for 75 minute sessions. Is this crazy? What am I getting myself into besides the money and time?

Yes crazy

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t you just switch?

OP here. Because they want to do both. I would prefer one club.

So tell them no! Come on, kids don’t get the final say in these types of things. It cost money, it requires you to commit more time driving. Less time away from the family. You say “pick one” and that’s it.

OP I have a kid like yours (it sounds like). And listen to your gut. This one kid of mine is different than my others - driven, hyper, competitive... special. Super involved academically and really committed to swimming at a young age. He is a good swimmer, not a great one. A super star in the summer and decent in club. But the LOVE of it is something else and has been that way since he was 8. I wish I had had something at that age that I loved like that. So I would say go for it. When your kid needs a day off or decided it is too much, say okay. Kids swim for club and high school and club and summer teams all of the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t you just switch?

OP here. Because they want to do both. I would prefer one club.

So tell them no! Come on, kids don’t get the final say in these types of things. It cost money, it requires you to commit more time driving. Less time away from the family. You say “pick one” and that’s it.