June 2 is “the best” birthday for MCSL

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Anonymous wrote:My kid has a birthday on June 1. Every other year he is the youngest in the league in his age group. Is it a bit of a bummer? Yeah, but this is a thing we do for fun and someone has to be on the wrong side of the cutoff.

If your kid has a June 2 birthday, I'm glad it worked out for them. Let's all celebrate with donuts and way too much candy from concessions and not take this too seriously

In MCSL? No they aren’t. Every other year, they are smack dab in the middle of their age group. The opposite years your kid is one of the oldest. If you had said May 31, then yes it would be true.

But none of this matters anyways. Someone will always be at a disadvantage.

What are you talking about? June 1 is the worst summer swim birthday. They will always be the very youngest swimmer on their down year, never ever the oldest.

Not in MCSL, which is why PP asked. NVSL parents continue to be the joke of the area. Thank you for entertaining the rest of us!

I’m confused. In MCSL you swim the age you are on June 1. So if my kid turns 9 on June
1, she will swim in the 9/10’s. If her birthday had been June 2 she would still swim 8 and under. Or have I been told the wrong thing? Not trying to get into a fighting match here, just trying to understand the age up rule.

As I read the rule, I believe you are interpreting it correctly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has a birthday on June 1. Every other year he is the youngest in the league in his age group. Is it a bit of a bummer? Yeah, but this is a thing we do for fun and someone has to be on the wrong side of the cutoff.

If your kid has a June 2 birthday, I'm glad it worked out for them. Let's all celebrate with donuts and way too much candy from concessions and not take this too seriously

In MCSL? No they aren’t. Every other year, they are smack dab in the middle of their age group. The opposite years your kid is one of the oldest. If you had said May 31, then yes it would be true.

But none of this matters anyways. Someone will always be at a disadvantage.

What are you talking about? June 1 is the worst summer swim birthday. They will always be the very youngest swimmer on their down year, never ever the oldest.

Not in MCSL, which is why PP asked. NVSL parents continue to be the joke of the area. Thank you for entertaining the rest of us!

I’m confused. In MCSL you swim the age you are on June 1. So if my kid turns 9 on June
1, she will swim in the 9/10’s. If her birthday had been June 2 she would still swim 8 and under. Or have I been told the wrong thing? Not trying to get into a fighting match here, just trying to understand the age up rule.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid has a birthday on June 1. Every other year he is the youngest in the league in his age group. Is it a bit of a bummer? Yeah, but this is a thing we do for fun and someone has to be on the wrong side of the cutoff.

If your kid has a June 2 birthday, I'm glad it worked out for them. Let's all celebrate with donuts and way too much candy from concessions and not take this too seriously

In MCSL? No they aren’t. Every other year, they are smack dab in the middle of their age group. The opposite years your kid is one of the oldest. If you had said May 31, then yes it would be true.

But none of this matters anyways. Someone will always be at a disadvantage.

What are you talking about? June 1 is the worst summer swim birthday. They will always be the very youngest swimmer on their down year, never ever the oldest.

Not in MCSL, which is why PP asked. NVSL parents continue to be the joke of the area. Thank you for entertaining the rest of us!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has a birthday on June 1. Every other year he is the youngest in the league in his age group. Is it a bit of a bummer? Yeah, but this is a thing we do for fun and someone has to be on the wrong side of the cutoff.

If your kid has a June 2 birthday, I'm glad it worked out for them. Let's all celebrate with donuts and way too much candy from concessions and not take this too seriously

In MCSL? No they aren’t. Every other year, they are smack dab in the middle of their age group. The opposite years your kid is one of the oldest. If you had said May 31, then yes it would be true.

But none of this matters anyways. Someone will always be at a disadvantage.

Nvsl. The rule is you are the in the age group for how you are ON JUNE 1.

but thank you for explaining the rules. I definitely don't know how it works seeing as how I constantly experience it 🙄

Well PP did ask if it was MCSL but seeing your snarkiness and craziness should have presumed it was NVSL. Good god NVSL needs its own separate forum. You’re a whole ‘nuthatch level of insanity!

Anonymous wrote:The irony in all this is, most kids with advantage summer birthdays that dominate NVSL swimming 50s, get absolutely crushed in the real LSC swimming world, including PVS.

One day, the world will finally awaken to what a true joke summer league is and all the 'all star' fanfare associated with it.

Um no they won’t because most of them are just like my kid - they do other sports for the other 3 seasons and swim in the summer for fun, hang out with friends and stay in shape for the sports they are passionate about. It’s great my kid excels at summer swim, he’s a rec swimmer swimming in a rec league. I am pretty sure that’s the point of the whole thing.

Anonymous wrote:Was considering for next year, trying out summer swim. My 8yo will be 9 on May 20.

So maybe not? Would be starting out swimming against 10 or 11yos??

That’s a dumb reason not to do summer swim.

Summer swim is fun. There are two year age bands and the first year he would be one of the youngest in the 9-10 year old band. He would swim against 9 and 10 year olds and a very few kids who have turned 11 since the season started. He will probably love it.

Was considering for next year, trying out summer swim. My 8yo will be 9 on May 20.

So maybe not? Would be starting out swimming against 10 or 11yos??

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Anonymous wrote:My kid has a birthday on June 1. Every other year he is the youngest in the league in his age group. Is it a bit of a bummer? Yeah, but this is a thing we do for fun and someone has to be on the wrong side of the cutoff.

If your kid has a June 2 birthday, I'm glad it worked out for them. Let's all celebrate with donuts and way too much candy from concessions and not take this too seriously

In MCSL? No they aren’t. Every other year, they are smack dab in the middle of their age group. The opposite years your kid is one of the oldest. If you had said May 31, then yes it would be true.

But none of this matters anyways. Someone will always be at a disadvantage.

Nvsl. The rule is you are the in the age group for how you are ON JUNE 1.

but thank you for explaining the rules. I definitely don't know how it works seeing as how I constantly experience it 🙄

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has a birthday on June 1. Every other year he is the youngest in the league in his age group. Is it a bit of a bummer? Yeah, but this is a thing we do for fun and someone has to be on the wrong side of the cutoff.

If your kid has a June 2 birthday, I'm glad it worked out for them. Let's all celebrate with donuts and way too much candy from concessions and not take this too seriously

In MCSL? No they aren’t. Every other year, they are smack dab in the middle of their age group. The opposite years your kid is one of the oldest. If you had said May 31, then yes it would be true.

But none of this matters anyways. Someone will always be at a disadvantage.

What are you talking about? June 1 is the worst summer swim birthday. They will always be the very youngest swimmer on their down year, never ever the oldest.

Anonymous wrote:The irony in all this is, most kids with advantage summer birthdays that dominate NVSL swimming 50s, get absolutely crushed in the real LSC swimming world, including PVS.

One day, the world will finally awaken to what a true joke summer league is and all the 'all star' fanfare associated with it.

It’s not a joke- it’s just another rev level sport.

And just to note, my swimmers are nationally ranked but generally suck at summer swim. During the summer they are training for LC, and are swimming summer meets immediately following a 2 hour practice. Any kid who is a distance swimmer won’t have a chance at 50s & 100s. Some of the best year-round swimmers have summer birthdays, some don’t.

The irony in all this is, most kids with advantage summer birthdays that dominate NVSL swimming 50s, get absolutely crushed in the real LSC swimming world, including PVS.

One day, the world will finally awaken to what a true joke summer league is and all the 'all star' fanfare associated with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Never change, crazy swim parents. It's. A. Summer. League.

Tell that to the parents I know who keep bragging about how fast their 9 year old is, while competing against 6, 7 and 8 year olds. Like good for him but maybe don't keep posting about it.

They’ll learn soon enough.

Anonymous wrote:It's a rec league ppl. Just have fun and tell your kids to have fun. The really talented swimmers go year round anyway. Can we just scale back the inanity on kids sports please?!?

here? never. I resent everyone who has a faster kid than my kid! And that's that (even though my kid doesn't care and has fun).

It's a rec league ppl. Just have fun and tell your kids to have fun. The really talented swimmers go year round anyway. Can we just scale back the inanity on kids sports please?!?