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Ohio State Swimming & Diving (2020/21/22 B1G Champions)

I have a question for swimmers out there and those who have kids who are on swim teams or who they themselves were on swim teams.

I have a very enthusiastic 7 year old who is a competent and safe swimmer. He can backstroke, frontstroke and goes off the diving board and handles the deep end with ease. He has expressed an interest in joining our local swim team at our pool this summer and I want to encourage him to do so.

Where would I go to get him "swim training lessons"?
Stuff about learning the competitions, building stamina....etc?

I don't want to throw him into these meets without him being prepared.

Sounds like my life about 15 years ago. We started by putting our two in the summer swim league at the pool we belonged to. The coaches were high school swimmers and things were casual, even though there were state champion swimmers within the older age groups. The purpose of the summer league was to let kids have fun while teaching fundamentals.

After the summer the kids joined one of the local swim teams where the teaching became more focused, but still fun. Basically what @Buck I in Mich said above. Mine swam through high school.

At the end of the first swim team season my younger son was beating the older one. It came down to he was stronger, but no technique. A year later the older one had his technique down and was crushing little brother. At that point little brother learned he might want to listen to the coaches more and work on improving his technique.

It is definitely a sport that will teach discipline and your kids will learn how far they can push themselves. The nice thing about swimming is there is no arguing with the coach that your kid should be the starter because he is a better fielder, pitcher, running back, or point guard. The time is the time.

Meets can be brutal but it is worth it. Just don't be that parent. You know what I mean;-)

One final memory. My kids are pretty quiet. My younger son had a bully in his grade school class. The kid came up behind my younger one and grabbed him by the shoulders one day. Once the bully realized the size of my son's shoulders the bully let go, walked away and never bothered him again. This was after about 5 years of year-round swimming. Swimmers are bigger than they look.
 
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Sounds like my life about 15 years ago. We started by putting our two in the summer swim league at the pool we belonged to. The coaches were high school swimmers and things were casual, even though there were state champion swimmers within the older age groups. The purpose of the summer league was to let kids have fun while teaching fundamentals.

After the summer the kids joined one of the local swim teams where the teaching became more focused, but still fun. Basically what @Buck I in Mich said above. Mine swam through high school.

At the end of the first swim team season my younger son was beating the older one. It came down to he was stronger, but no technique. A year later the older one had his technique down and was crushing little brother. At that point little brother learned he might want to listen to the coaches more and work on improving his technique.

It is definitely a sport that will teach discipline and your kids will learn how far they can push themselves. The nice thing about swimming is there is no arguing with the coach that your kid should be the starter because he is a better fielder, pitcher, running back, or point guard. The time is the time.

Meets can be brutal but it is worth it. Just don't be that parent. You know what I mean;-)

One final memory. My kids are pretty quiet. My younger son had a bully in his grade school class. The kid came up behind my younger one and grabbed him by the shoulders one day. Once the bully realized the size of my son's shoulders the bully let go, walked away and never bothered him again. This was after about 5 years of year-round swimming. Swimmers are bigger than they look.
The meets go slow but the years go fast. I miss it already and it’s only been 8 months since his last meet at College Club Nationals.
 
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We look back very fondly on daughter's swim career and polo as well. Setting up pop-ups at 5:00am on away meet days, getting home late afternoon, as kid seemed to swim in first event, and the last relays....certainly builds muscle all over. Love the bully story above. Am assuming the above parents are doing the timing routines (greatest view is from the swimdeck), maybe stroke and turn judging, and/or meet director toward the end. We got to go to swim nationals (NAIA - not B10 etc, but still...) all four years of college. Hope yours continues the progress as well. Ours was much more disciplined 'in season' than out, in both studies and chores. Best of luck, enjoy the moments, they are fleeting.
 
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My advice would be to put him on the team regardless of his ability. The coaches will work with his ability and segregate him in practice into a lane with other swimmers of his ability. As he gets better they move him into faster lanes.

I have to laugh because this is EXACTLY what happened with my son.
This is just a Fall/Winter team with one "mini-meet" a month and sure enough, they had him jump in and he was in the beginner lane. I talked to one of the mom's sitting and watching and she said her son was in the beginner lane until he got about 7-8 practices in and then they moved him over.

My son is still a little perplexed about diving in correctly and proper form, but I'm very encouraged. 60 minutes of active swimming and diving for a seven year old kid who has never swam that hard or as much in his life was a lot. He was exhausted afterwards but helped clean up the equipment and chant with his team. He can't wait to go back on Wednesday.

Best part is - he got home and grabbed a quick dinner and went immediately to sleep. Wore his little ass out.
8D
 
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Perfect. My son struggled with diving in for years. He jumped off the pools edge until he was 7. And even when he went off the blocks he was doing belly smackers for another year. 8 years later he was competing at the high school state tournament. Trust me, he will make great improvements and meet a lot of friends along the way.
 
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Ohio State's Hunter Armstrong wins national backstroke title​

Former Ohio State swimmer Hunter Armstrong won the national title in the 100 backstroke at the Phillips 66 National Championships in Indianapolis on Friday.

Armstrong finished in 52.33, edging four-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Murphy by .06 seconds. Armstrong’s finish earned him a spot on the Team USA roster for the World Championships in Japan.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Armstrong won a gold medal in the 4×100 meter medley relay, swimming backstroke in the preliminaries, and placed ninth in the 100 meter backstroke.
 
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OLYMPIC VILLAGE. This week, Ohio State diver Lyle Yost and wrestler Jesse Mendez received special honors in their sports, as Yost qualified for the 2024 World Aquatics Championships as a member of Team USA and Mendez received a Big Ten Wrestler of the Week accolade.

Let’s dive into those honors.

Pun intended.

Yost won an NCAA championship in the 1-meter dive in 2023. That event springboarded him – pun intended – into a competition in the same event at Winter Nationals in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yost, a Shaker Heights, Ohio, native, took second in the preliminaries and wowed in his main dive, recording an aggregate score of 743.65 to claim the event title. With the win, Yost will represent the United States at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar, in February.

 
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