NVSL pool without dive team?

[Anonymous]

We are on the waiting list for a pool with a dive team, but looking ahead to next summer and not sure we will get off the list by then. Some pools let you join the dive team if your pool is a member of NVSL but doesn’t have its own dive team. Wondering if we could perhaps join another pool as a way to get “in” temporarily.

[Anonymous]

We dive at a different pool than our 'home' pool and this would not work. Being on the dive team gives access for the diver ONLY during dive practices and meets. Dive team membership also has zero overlap with pool general membership.

[Anonymous]

You can be a member of the NVSL pool without the dive team and then join the dive team of the closest NVSL pool to your swim club.

So our pool has an NVSL swim team but no dive team. We have several people dive at the pool right down the road, that has a wait list. But as the previous poster noted they do not have membership to that pool, they just attend dive practices and events. Your "home pool" would be the pool you joined without the dive team. Does that make sense?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We dive at a different pool than our 'home' pool and this would not work. Being on the dive team gives access for the diver ONLY during dive practices and meets. Dive team membership also has zero overlap with pool general membership.

We are very appreciative that DC has the opportunity to dive at a nearby pool with an NVSL team. We are guests there, though, for dive events only (DC is invited to swim/dive team social events, but generally declines, saying it "feels weird"). We try to be gracious guests and not take advantage of the generosity and hospitality that the club has extended to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can be a member of the NVSL pool without the dive team and then join the dive team of the closest NVSL pool to your swim club.

So our pool has an NVSL swim team but no dive team. We have several people dive at the pool right down the road, that has a wait list. But as the previous poster noted they do not have membership to that pool, they just attend dive practices and events. Your "home pool" would be the pool you joined without the dive team. Does that make sense?

Can you share the name of your pool? Yes I understand i would not have general access to the “dive” pool (that is lower priority for us).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can be a member of the NVSL pool without the dive team and then join the dive team of the closest NVSL pool to your swim club.

So our pool has an NVSL swim team but no dive team. We have several people dive at the pool right down the road, that has a wait list. But as the previous poster noted they do not have membership to that pool, they just attend dive practices and events. Your "home pool" would be the pool you joined without the dive team. Does that make sense?

Can you share the name of your pool? Yes I understand i would not have general access to the “dive” pool (that is lower priority for us).

OP here again. Just to clarify, my priority is getting my kid on a dive team. If I could do so without joining a pool at all (are there any pools that offer this for a fee?), that would be ideal. Barring that, though, I’m willing to pay for general membership to a pool (that we probably won’t use) for the privileges of joining the dive team at another NVSL pool. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

We are on a waiting list at a pool with a dive team. They sent an email soliciting participation in just the dive team (not for membership, fully aware in the wording that we were not pool members). They have no record that we are members at another NVSL pool. If there are specific dive teams you want to join, it doesn’t hurt to reach out now to ask for next year (ex. Do they let outsiders join the dive team, if so, can they add you to the email list, etc)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are on a waiting list at a pool with a dive team. They sent an email soliciting participation in just the dive team (not for membership, fully aware in the wording that we were not pool members). They have no record that we are members at another NVSL pool. If there are specific dive teams you want to join, it doesn’t hurt to reach out now to ask for next year (ex. Do they let outsiders join the dive team, if so, can they add you to the email list, etc)

I’m sure another poster can weigh in, but I’m not sure NVSL regulations allow someone who isn’t a member of an NVSL pool to participate in NVSL swim or dive.

I’ve never heard of a dive team only NVSL pool membership (or a swim team only NVSL pool membership). If an NVSL pool is soliciting kids to participate on an NVSL team without actually joining the pool, that sounds problematic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can be a member of the NVSL pool without the dive team and then join the dive team of the closest NVSL pool to your swim club.

So our pool has an NVSL swim team but no dive team. We have several people dive at the pool right down the road, that has a wait list. But as the previous poster noted they do not have membership to that pool, they just attend dive practices and events. Your "home pool" would be the pool you joined without the dive team. Does that make sense?

Can you share the name of your pool? Yes I understand i would not have general access to the “dive” pool (that is lower priority for us).

OP here again. Just to clarify, my priority is getting my kid on a dive team. If I could do so without joining a pool at all (are there any pools that offer this for a fee?), that would be ideal. Barring that, though, I’m willing to pay for general membership to a pool (that we probably won’t use) for the privileges of joining the dive team at another NVSL pool. Thanks.

Ohhhhh! Ok. This is different. You need to have membership to a pool in NVSL to be eligible to dive in the league. I don’t know of a pool that offers a dive team-only membership.

Back in the day when waitlists weren’t a thing, I can think of pools that offered swim team-only junior memberships, but that was a really long time ago and I haven’t heard of it since, and it didn’t apply to dive.

[Anonymous]

OP here again. Several NVSL pools state on their website that you can join the dive team if your NVSL pool doesn’t have a dive team. So I’m all set there. Just trying to find a NVSL pool without a dive team (and hopefully without a waitlist) please. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I think there’s a list of pools on the NVSL website with a column indicating waitlist status. I can’t guarantee it’s totally up to date, but it’s a start.

The only pool I know had openings this summer was Fox Mill Woods in Reston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here again. Several NVSL pools state on their website that you can join the dive team if your NVSL pool doesn’t have a dive team. So I’m all set there. Just trying to find a NVSL pool without a dive team (and hopefully without a waitlist) please. Thanks.

Where do you live? We go to one of those clubs.

[Anonymous]

MSTA in McLean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can be a member of the NVSL pool without the dive team and then join the dive team of the closest NVSL pool to your swim club.

So our pool has an NVSL swim team but no dive team. We have several people dive at the pool right down the road, that has a wait list. But as the previous poster noted they do not have membership to that pool, they just attend dive practices and events. Your "home pool" would be the pool you joined without the dive team. Does that make sense?

Can you share the name of your pool? Yes I understand i would not have general access to the “dive” pool (that is lower priority for us).

OP here again. Just to clarify, my priority is getting my kid on a dive team. If I could do so without joining a pool at all (are there any pools that offer this for a fee?), that would be ideal. Barring that, though, I’m willing to pay for general membership to a pool (that we probably won’t use) for the privileges of joining the dive team at another NVSL pool. Thanks.

Here are lists of clubs that shows whether or not they have a waitlist. (Click on one of the first two links).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MSTA in McLean

They are listed as having a wait list.