NVSL Seeding is out!

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Anonymous wrote:I have been surprised at how crappy some of the non-hoa pools are, that people join waitlists and pay membership fees to join.

There are zero pools in South Arlington. So you have no options.

Arlington Forest pool is just over Rt 50. Not far at all.

Dominion Hills and Fort Myer too.

Arlington Forest is an amazing pool but it is a 10K sign up for membership fee and a 7-10 year waitlist.

Fort Myer is lovely, more like a club than a pool with real food you can order and lots of expensive fun activities paid for by DoD, but you have to be military or GS to join. Which is not too tough in this area. It is also Colonial League which arguably might be a plus in its favor.

I know nothing about Dominion Hills.

Arlington forest does not have a 10k membership fee- what a bizarre statement. Its currently 3600, of which you get 3375 back when you want to resign your membership and sell your share back to the club.
https://arlingtonforestclub.org/membership/

Meh. $4200 is a lot for a sign up fee for one summer. It is like they are pricing out people of color or poorer families. Nevermind, I looked at the team photo. They have one black kid and a couple of brown ones in that VERY large team. So their pricing is not discouraging diversity.

It’s a one time fee, not per summer!

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That still sounds like a lot for one time.

You clearly have not looked into pool memberships in N. Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been surprised at how crappy some of the non-hoa pools are, that people join waitlists and pay membership fees to join.

There are zero pools in South Arlington. So you have no options.

Arlington Forest pool is just over Rt 50. Not far at all.

Dominion Hills and Fort Myer too.

Arlington Forest is an amazing pool but it is a 10K sign up for membership fee and a 7-10 year waitlist.

Fort Myer is lovely, more like a club than a pool with real food you can order and lots of expensive fun activities paid for by DoD, but you have to be military or GS to join. Which is not too tough in this area. It is also Colonial League which arguably might be a plus in its favor.

I know nothing about Dominion Hills.

Arlington forest does not have a 10k membership fee- what a bizarre statement. Its currently 3600, of which you get 3375 back when you want to resign your membership and sell your share back to the club.
https://arlingtonforestclub.org/membership/

Meh. $4200 is a lot for a sign up fee for one summer. It is like they are pricing out people of color or poorer families. Nevermind, I looked at the team photo. They have one black kid and a couple of brown ones in that VERY large team. So their pricing is not discouraging diversity.

It’s a one time fee, not per summer!

DP
That still sounds like a lot for one time.

You clearly have not looked into pool memberships in N. Arlington.

True, we haven’t. We are in the W. Springfield/Burke area.

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For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit.

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Anonymous wrote:For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit.

Sure, Jan .

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What an odd thread. For those hating on division 1, most of their A meet swimmers swim year round including for their clubs in the summer, which means summer swim is really just fun for them, not serious. Maybe some of these clubs recruit, maybe they don’t — I have no idea — but this seems a club issue, not a swimmer issue, as the best swimmers at these clubs do not have their eye on summer swim glory as the prize. Look them up. It’s not hard.

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Anonymous wrote:What an odd thread. For those hating on division 1, most of their A meet swimmers swim year round including for their clubs in the summer, which means summer swim is really just fun for them, not serious. Maybe some of these clubs recruit, maybe they don’t — I have no idea — but this seems a club issue, not a swimmer issue, as the best swimmers at these clubs do not have their eye on summer swim glory as the prize. Look them up. It’s not hard.

For the swimmers it's 100% not. Summer means nothing. The parents are a completely different story.

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Anonymous wrote:For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit.

You have an interesting definition of recruiting if that “guest swimmer” from Maryland didn’t count.

As for how a good swimmer can be ushered in the Chesterbrook back door, those beans were spilled on Swim Ninja a few years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit.

You have an interesting definition of recruiting if that “guest swimmer” from Maryland didn’t count.

As for how a good swimmer can be ushered in the Chesterbrook back door, those beans were spilled on Swim Ninja a few years ago.

We’ll this is getting juicy…do tell

I can’t imagine how obnoxious places like Chesterbrook. Their team rep bios alone gave me a good laugh.

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Anonymous wrote:For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit.

Ummm…they most certainly do

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Anonymous wrote:I have been surprised at how crappy some of the non-hoa pools are, that people join waitlists and pay membership fees to join.

There are zero pools in South Arlington. So you have no options.

Arlington Forest pool is just over Rt 50. Not far at all.

Dominion Hills and Fort Myer too.

Arlington Forest is an amazing pool but it is a 10K sign up for membership fee and a 7-10 year waitlist.

Fort Myer is lovely, more like a club than a pool with real food you can order and lots of expensive fun activities paid for by DoD, but you have to be military or GS to join. Which is not too tough in this area. It is also Colonial League which arguably might be a plus in its favor.

I know nothing about Dominion Hills.

Arlington forest does not have a 10k membership fee- what a bizarre statement. Its currently 3600, of which you get 3375 back when you want to resign your membership and sell your share back to the club.
https://arlingtonforestclub.org/membership/

Meh. $4200 is a lot for a sign up fee for one summer. It is like they are pricing out people of color or poorer families. Nevermind, I looked at the team photo. They have one black kid and a couple of brown ones in that VERY large team. So their pricing is not discouraging diversity.

It’s a one time fee, not per summer!

DP
That still sounds like a lot for one time.

You clearly have not looked into pool memberships in N. Arlington.

True, we haven’t. We are in the W. Springfield/Burke area.

You should start recruiting all the best swimmers from Old Keene Mill, Orange Hunt, and Hunt Valley to build a super team to take on Chesterbrook.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been surprised at how crappy some of the non-hoa pools are, that people join waitlists and pay membership fees to join.

There are zero pools in South Arlington. So you have no options.

Arlington Forest pool is just over Rt 50. Not far at all.

Dominion Hills and Fort Myer too.

Arlington Forest is an amazing pool but it is a 10K sign up for membership fee and a 7-10 year waitlist.

Fort Myer is lovely, more like a club than a pool with real food you can order and lots of expensive fun activities paid for by DoD, but you have to be military or GS to join. Which is not too tough in this area. It is also Colonial League which arguably might be a plus in its favor.

I know nothing about Dominion Hills.

Arlington forest does not have a 10k membership fee- what a bizarre statement. Its currently 3600, of which you get 3375 back when you want to resign your membership and sell your share back to the club.
https://arlingtonforestclub.org/membership/

Meh. $4200 is a lot for a sign up fee for one summer. It is like they are pricing out people of color or poorer families. Nevermind, I looked at the team photo. They have one black kid and a couple of brown ones in that VERY large team. So their pricing is not discouraging diversity.

It’s a one time fee, not per summer!

DP
That still sounds like a lot for one time.

Really? You get access to tennis all year.

I was like wow. Tennis. I can play for free any time I want.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been surprised at how crappy some of the non-hoa pools are, that people join waitlists and pay membership fees to join.

There are zero pools in South Arlington. So you have no options.

Arlington Forest pool is just over Rt 50. Not far at all.

Dominion Hills and Fort Myer too.

Arlington Forest is an amazing pool but it is a 10K sign up for membership fee and a 7-10 year waitlist.

Fort Myer is lovely, more like a club than a pool with real food you can order and lots of expensive fun activities paid for by DoD, but you have to be military or GS to join. Which is not too tough in this area. It is also Colonial League which arguably might be a plus in its favor.

I know nothing about Dominion Hills.

Arlington forest does not have a 10k membership fee- what a bizarre statement. Its currently 3600, of which you get 3375 back when you want to resign your membership and sell your share back to the club.
https://arlingtonforestclub.org/membership/

Meh. $4200 is a lot for a sign up fee for one summer. It is like they are pricing out people of color or poorer families. Nevermind, I looked at the team photo. They have one black kid and a couple of brown ones in that VERY large team. So their pricing is not discouraging diversity.

It’s a one time fee, not per summer!

DP
That still sounds like a lot for one time.

You clearly have not looked into pool memberships in N. Arlington.

True, we haven’t. We are in the W. Springfield/Burke area.

You should start recruiting all the best swimmers from Old Keene Mill, Orange Hunt, and Hunt Valley to build a super team to take on Chesterbrook.

I am at OKM and we do not want to be that high. Even where we are now we are getting glimpses of what goes on and it is pretty sad.

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Anonymous wrote:For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit.

You have an interesting definition of recruiting if that “guest swimmer” from Maryland didn’t count.

As for how a good swimmer can be ushered in the Chesterbrook back door, those beans were spilled on Swim Ninja a few years ago.

We’ll this is getting juicy…do tell

I can’t imagine how obnoxious places like Chesterbrook. Their team rep bios alone gave me a good laugh.

I generally do not go read rep bios but you peaked my interest. Holy sh*t! They were incredibly obnoxious. First they are professional pics with where they work and graduated? As if that will make you an outstanding rep. The one that rides horses sounds incredibly pretentious to the point she must be a disappointment not being on a country club swim team. What would her horses think!

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Anonymous wrote:For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit.

You have an interesting definition of recruiting if that “guest swimmer” from Maryland didn’t count.

As for how a good swimmer can be ushered in the Chesterbrook back door, those beans were spilled on Swim Ninja a few years ago.

What guest swimmer? Can someone give the highlights of the back door technique?

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Anonymous wrote:For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit.

You have an interesting definition of recruiting if that “guest swimmer” from Maryland didn’t count.

As for how a good swimmer can be ushered in the Chesterbrook back door, those beans were spilled on Swim Ninja a few years ago.

We’ll this is getting juicy…do tell

I can’t imagine how obnoxious places like Chesterbrook. Their team rep bios alone gave me a good laugh.

I generally do not go read rep bios but you peaked my interest. Holy sh*t! They were incredibly obnoxious. First they are professional pics with where they work and graduated? As if that will make you an outstanding rep. The one that rides horses sounds incredibly pretentious to the point she must be a disappointment not being on a country club swim team. What would her horses think!

Statements like triple crown winner on the site. The bios. The one woman chose some incredibly interesting name spellings. It is something.

https://chesterbrook.swimtopia.com/team-representatives