Anonymous wrote:I agree with everyone that a few seconds is generally a long time in swim, but the U10 crowd routinely drops bunches of seconds in events, even in 50s.

Which means OP doesn’t need to worry!

Anonymous wrote:I agree with everyone that a few seconds is generally a long time in swim, but the U10 crowd routinely drops bunches of seconds in events, even in 50s.

True. And they also go up and down frequently. So a several second drop OR gain is normal.

I agree with everyone that a few seconds is generally a long time in swim, but the U10 crowd routinely drops bunches of seconds in events, even in 50s.

Anonymous wrote:a few seconds away is not close.

This parent is going to burn this kid out. Unless it’s a 500 free, a few seconds is not close.


Im assuming the event is at least a 100 but a few seconds on a 100 anything takes a long time to drop for a year round swimmer.


Are you sure you understand what’s going on OP?

Anonymous wrote:a few seconds away is not close.

Word.

And to answer your question - grow.

You definitely don’t need to be a pushing a 9 year old hard with extra workouts, etc., that is a recipe for burnout or an overuse injury. Since you’re talking about an IM I would just have your DD focus more on her weakest stroke. When she does meets have her always enter the 50 for her weakest stroke. It’s natural for kids to want to focus on the stroke that is their best and always enter those events, but what will help her the most to drop time in the IM is improving the stroke that’s the weakest.

The best way -work on starts and turns. My DD would always start well and lose it on the turn.

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Anonymous wrote:(she wants to break a team record and she's close but it's still a few seconds away)

Wouldn't this be the case for basically every kid on the team?

No. She has the fastest 10U times by a lot.

I looked up on swimmer rank and see that only about eighteen 9 year olds are ranked in the top 200 in the Us for the 200 IM. I am interested in her time. I enjoying watching how these swimmers do. It’s amazing to me! The top 9 year old in the 200 Im in the country has a 2:29.62 in the 9-10 yr old 200 im. How far is your daughter from the record?

Looks like the top swimmer (9 year old, girl) in PVS for the current year (so far) has a 9:43.12. Just FYI

Do you mean 2:43:12? That would make more sense. My 9 year old son is not in PVS and has a slightly faster time. That is only an AA time, I can’t imagine it’s anywhere close to any record. Although I will say that for the most part the kids in my son’s LSC are posting much faster times than PVS. OP, if that’s your daughter’s time she very good but definitely not a superstar. Just tell her to keep working hard and the times will come!

Your son is fast. The fastest pvs 9 yr old boy for the 200 Im does only have a AA time, but that places him 167th in the whole country, 9-10 yrs old. So yours is ranked high!! But to show you how we all know this works- the number one kid in the 9-10 yr old boys in the 200 IM had an AAAA time and then aged up and now has an AA time.

He is fast, definitely, but still nowhere near the best. He has the fastest time of the 9 year old boys on his very large team, but a few 10 year olds are significantly faster. And yes, to your point - the times become so much faster as they age up, and 11-12 is so difficult with some kids hitting puberty and others far from it. I don’t discount the fact that an AA time in the 200 IM at 9 is very fast, but at least for my son’s team, you would have to be AAAA+ to set a record at any age.

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Anonymous wrote:(she wants to break a team record and she's close but it's still a few seconds away)

Wouldn't this be the case for basically every kid on the team?

No. She has the fastest 10U times by a lot.

I looked up on swimmer rank and see that only about eighteen 9 year olds are ranked in the top 200 in the Us for the 200 IM. I am interested in her time. I enjoying watching how these swimmers do. It’s amazing to me! The top 9 year old in the 200 Im in the country has a 2:29.62 in the 9-10 yr old 200 im. How far is your daughter from the record?

Looks like the top swimmer (9 year old, girl) in PVS for the current year (so far) has a 9:43.12. Just FYI

Do you mean 2:43:12? That would make more sense. My 9 year old son is not in PVS and has a slightly faster time. That is only an AA time, I can’t imagine it’s anywhere close to any record. Although I will say that for the most part the kids in my son’s LSC are posting much faster times than PVS. OP, if that’s your daughter’s time she very good but definitely not a superstar. Just tell her to keep working hard and the times will come!

It doesn’t matter, the team record could be for a small team, so not that fast relative to the zone. If she has another year, 2 seconds is not that much time to drop. Just go to practice as everyone has recommended.

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Anonymous wrote:(she wants to break a team record and she's close but it's still a few seconds away)

Wouldn't this be the case for basically every kid on the team?

No. She has the fastest 10U times by a lot.

I looked up on swimmer rank and see that only about eighteen 9 year olds are ranked in the top 200 in the Us for the 200 IM. I am interested in her time. I enjoying watching how these swimmers do. It’s amazing to me! The top 9 year old in the 200 Im in the country has a 2:29.62 in the 9-10 yr old 200 im. How far is your daughter from the record?

Looks like the top swimmer (9 year old, girl) in PVS for the current year (so far) has a 9:43.12. Just FYI

Do you mean 2:43:12? That would make more sense. My 9 year old son is not in PVS and has a slightly faster time. That is only an AA time, I can’t imagine it’s anywhere close to any record. Although I will say that for the most part the kids in my son’s LSC are posting much faster times than PVS. OP, if that’s your daughter’s time she very good but definitely not a superstar. Just tell her to keep working hard and the times will come!

Your son is fast. The fastest pvs 9 yr old boy for the 200 Im does only have a AA time, but that places him 167th in the whole country, 9-10 yrs old. So yours is ranked high!! But to show you how we all know this works- the number one kid in the 9-10 yr old boys in the 200 IM had an AAAA time and then aged up and now has an AA time.

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Anonymous wrote:(she wants to break a team record and she's close but it's still a few seconds away)

Wouldn't this be the case for basically every kid on the team?

No. She has the fastest 10U times by a lot.

I looked up on swimmer rank and see that only about eighteen 9 year olds are ranked in the top 200 in the Us for the 200 IM. I am interested in her time. I enjoying watching how these swimmers do. It’s amazing to me! The top 9 year old in the 200 Im in the country has a 2:29.62 in the 9-10 yr old 200 im. How far is your daughter from the record?

Looks like the top swimmer (9 year old, girl) in PVS for the current year (so far) has a 9:43.12. Just FYI

Umm, I think you must have gotten a number wrong. That would be extremely, extremely slow.

Ha typo: 2:42.12

Lol! Makes much more sense! That’s a great time but nowhere near record-setting unless the club is very new or just has never had fast swimmers, which would be unusual. Typically records are well, well under the AAAA mark (which for 10U girls would be 2:29:79).

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Anonymous wrote:(she wants to break a team record and she's close but it's still a few seconds away)

Wouldn't this be the case for basically every kid on the team?

No. She has the fastest 10U times by a lot.

I looked up on swimmer rank and see that only about eighteen 9 year olds are ranked in the top 200 in the Us for the 200 IM. I am interested in her time. I enjoying watching how these swimmers do. It’s amazing to me! The top 9 year old in the 200 Im in the country has a 2:29.62 in the 9-10 yr old 200 im. How far is your daughter from the record?

Looks like the top swimmer (9 year old, girl) in PVS for the current year (so far) has a 9:43.12. Just FYI

Umm, I think you must have gotten a number wrong. That would be extremely, extremely slow.

Ha typo: 2:42.12

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Anonymous wrote:(she wants to break a team record and she's close but it's still a few seconds away)

Wouldn't this be the case for basically every kid on the team?

No. She has the fastest 10U times by a lot.

I looked up on swimmer rank and see that only about eighteen 9 year olds are ranked in the top 200 in the Us for the 200 IM. I am interested in her time. I enjoying watching how these swimmers do. It’s amazing to me! The top 9 year old in the 200 Im in the country has a 2:29.62 in the 9-10 yr old 200 im. How far is your daughter from the record?

Looks like the top swimmer (9 year old, girl) in PVS for the current year (so far) has a 9:43.12. Just FYI

Do you mean 2:43:12? That would make more sense. My 9 year old son is not in PVS and has a slightly faster time. That is only an AA time, I can’t imagine it’s anywhere close to any record. Although I will say that for the most part the kids in my son’s LSC are posting much faster times than PVS. OP, if that’s your daughter’s time she very good but definitely not a superstar. Just tell her to keep working hard and the times will come!

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Anonymous wrote:(she wants to break a team record and she's close but it's still a few seconds away)

Wouldn't this be the case for basically every kid on the team?

No. She has the fastest 10U times by a lot.

I looked up on swimmer rank and see that only about eighteen 9 year olds are ranked in the top 200 in the Us for the 200 IM. I am interested in her time. I enjoying watching how these swimmers do. It’s amazing to me! The top 9 year old in the 200 Im in the country has a 2:29.62 in the 9-10 yr old 200 im. How far is your daughter from the record?

Looks like the top swimmer (9 year old, girl) in PVS for the current year (so far) has a 9:43.12. Just FYI

Umm, I think you must have gotten a number wrong. That would be extremely, extremely slow.

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Anonymous wrote:(she wants to break a team record and she's close but it's still a few seconds away)

Wouldn't this be the case for basically every kid on the team?

No. She has the fastest 10U times by a lot.

Then I'd assume she has the JO cut. Make sure she goes and swims the event there. If she makes finals, another chance to swim. Zone cut? Same thing. Kids generally swim faster at the big meets. Not with pressure of 'do this to break the record,' but just because she (hopefully) loves to swim.

I'm sure she does. It's a 2:57.99. This kid would definitely have this cut.