NVSL: Worst pool for hosting a meet?

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NVSL parents - what are the worst pools/clubs for hosting meets? Go….

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Donaldson Run spectator seating is awful (hill, bugs).

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Dowden Terrace. Small. Cramped. Way too shallow. The pool needs updating too.

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Herndon. Awful. Visiting team has to walk out in the muddy parking lot the. Back into the grounds to clerk of course. The officials were also very biased to their team.

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Virginia Hills. The spectating is from the “hills” - muddy, buggy, difficult to get to for anyone with a slight mobility issue. Parents and grandparents literally falling and sliding on the hill. Nice team, but I never want to go back there.

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Anonymous wrote:Donaldson Run spectator seating is awful (hill, bugs).

Donaldson Run for lack of parking

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Virginia Run, great pool but miserable drive

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Any pool that is shallow.

Oakton- their pool is so damn shallow and they don't even take the time to fill it to the top. Kids have to dive into an area that is dangerously shallow.

We had a meet at another pool years ago and swimmers were getting DQd for pushing off the bottom at the turn because it's pretty hard for a kid who is over 6 ft to turn in 2.5 feet of water.

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Anonymous wrote:Dowden Terrace. Small. Cramped. Way too shallow. The pool needs updating too.

+1. All that plus bad parking. No offense to the team or pool members, it's about the facility.

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+1 for Virginia Hills

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dowden Terrace. Small. Cramped. Way too shallow. The pool needs updating too.

+1. All that plus bad parking. No offense to the team or pool members, it's about the facility.

Oh, and the ticks and they put the visiting team in the crappiest of spots.

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Little Ricky run, not the pool itself but the neighborhood wasn’t friendly for people do street parking ( no option to park except at a church), some actually measure your car to be at least 10 feet from their driveway and mailbox. Such a pool just shouldn’t host individual divisional events because parking’s hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Any pool that is shallow.

Oakton- their pool is so damn shallow and they don't even take the time to fill it to the top. Kids have to dive into an area that is dangerously shallow.

We had a meet at another pool years ago and swimmers were getting DQd for pushing off the bottom at the turn because it's pretty hard for a kid who is over 6 ft to turn in 2.5 feet of water.

There should be minimum depth rules to host. DD's team has a practice where they practiced diving and turning in the shallow end of our pool to make sure they could safely do it at a meet

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Anonymous wrote:Little Ricky run, not the pool itself but the neighborhood wasn’t friendly for people do street parking ( no option to park except at a church), some actually measure your car to be at least 10 feet from their driveway and mailbox. Such a pool just shouldn’t host individual divisional events because parking’s hard.

Ha, that’s the same in our neighborhood and exactly why we don’t host big meets. N

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Kent Gardens. Just for being 25 yards instead of meters