Chesterbrook Swim & Tennis Club

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Worst behaved swim team in the area but nice facilities. If you want to do swim team though I would join Tuckahoe, Highlands, Kent Gardens, or McLean Swim and Tennis...all mich nicer environments for swimmers.

What does worst behaved team mean?

Some of the senior swimmers, who should be able to model good sportsmanship to the younger kids, do ostentatious things to dq when they have already won a meet. Some have broken into other swim facilities and vandalized the property, left dead animals on cars displaying rival team stickers, sh!t in other pools after hours to get it closed down, that sort of thing. They are the reason some other pools have installed security systems.

Not surprising when the team parents have been known to display a “championship table” laden with filled champagne glasses before a final season meet even starts. I’m sure the warm champagne goes down well on a hot summer day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worst behaved swim team in the area but nice facilities. If you want to do swim team though I would join Tuckahoe, Highlands, Kent Gardens, or McLean Swim and Tennis...all mich nicer environments for swimmers.

What does worst behaved team mean?

Some of the senior swimmers, who should be able to model good sportsmanship to the younger kids, do ostentatious things to dq when they have already won a meet. Some have broken into other swim facilities and vandalized the property, left dead animals on cars displaying rival team stickers, sh!t in other pools after hours to get it closed down, that sort of thing. They are the reason some other pools have installed security systems.

Not surprising when the team parents have been known to display a “championship table” laden with filled champagne glasses before a final season meet even starts. I’m sure the warm champagne goes down well on a hot summer day.

That is certainly dickish behavior. I bet those kids' moms go down on hot summer days, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worst behaved swim team in the area but nice facilities. If you want to do swim team though I would join Tuckahoe, Highlands, Kent Gardens, or McLean Swim and Tennis...all mich nicer environments for swimmers.

What does worst behaved team mean?

Some of the senior swimmers, who should be able to model good sportsmanship to the younger kids, do ostentatious things to dq when they have already won a meet. Some have broken into other swim facilities and vandalized the property, left dead animals on cars displaying rival team stickers, sh!t in other pools after hours to get it closed down, that sort of thing. They are the reason some other pools have installed security systems.

Not surprising when the team parents have been known to display a “championship table” laden with filled champagne glasses before a final season meet even starts. I’m sure the warm champagne goes down well on a hot summer day.

Either you are aware of the actual facts and are purposefully misrepresenting things, or you have no idea what you are talking about.

For instance, at the last home meet, there are plastic champagne flutes filled with red gatorade (one of Chesterbrook's colors) for swimmers to toast the outgoing seniors. No one drinks champagne.

The team has changed a lot over the past ten years and now emphasizes sportsmanship and love of the sport. In the past two years, they've sent kids to swim at Notre Dame, Boston College, NYU, Emory, UPenn, U Cincinnati, UNC Wilmington, and Loyola. It's a fun, intense community. The team wins a lot, and that can breed resentment, but if you are considering joining you should get the facts and not sour grapes and apocryphal nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worst behaved swim team in the area but nice facilities. If you want to do swim team though I would join Tuckahoe, Highlands, Kent Gardens, or McLean Swim and Tennis...all mich nicer environments for swimmers.

What does worst behaved team mean?

Some of the senior swimmers, who should be able to model good sportsmanship to the younger kids, do ostentatious things to dq when they have already won a meet. Some have broken into other swim facilities and vandalized the property, left dead animals on cars displaying rival team stickers, sh!t in other pools after hours to get it closed down, that sort of thing. They are the reason some other pools have installed security systems.

Not surprising when the team parents have been known to display a “championship table” laden with filled champagne glasses before a final season meet even starts. I’m sure the warm champagne goes down well on a hot summer day.

Either you are aware of the actual facts and are purposefully misrepresenting things, or you have no idea what you are talking about.

For instance, at the last home meet, there are plastic champagne flutes filled with red gatorade (one of Chesterbrook's colors) for swimmers to toast the outgoing seniors. No one drinks champagne.

The team has changed a lot over the past ten years and now emphasizes sportsmanship and love of the sport. In the past two years, they've sent kids to swim at Notre Dame, Boston College, NYU, Emory, UPenn, U Cincinnati, UNC Wilmington, and Loyola. It's a fun, intense community. The team wins a lot, and that can breed resentment, but if you are considering joining you should get the facts and not sour grapes and apocryphal nonsense.

Maybe it will take a few years to filter down to the swimmers and the parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worst behaved swim team in the area but nice facilities. If you want to do swim team though I would join Tuckahoe, Highlands, Kent Gardens, or McLean Swim and Tennis...all mich nicer environments for swimmers.

What does worst behaved team mean?

Some of the senior swimmers, who should be able to model good sportsmanship to the younger kids, do ostentatious things to dq when they have already won a meet. Some have broken into other swim facilities and vandalized the property, left dead animals on cars displaying rival team stickers, sh!t in other pools after hours to get it closed down, that sort of thing. They are the reason some other pools have installed security systems.

Not surprising when the team parents have been known to display a “championship table” laden with filled champagne glasses before a final season meet even starts. I’m sure the warm champagne goes down well on a hot summer day.

Either you are aware of the actual facts and are purposefully misrepresenting things, or you have no idea what you are talking about.

For instance, at the last home meet, there are plastic champagne flutes filled with red gatorade (one of Chesterbrook's colors) for swimmers to toast the outgoing seniors. No one drinks champagne.

The team has changed a lot over the past ten years and now emphasizes sportsmanship and love of the sport. In the past two years, they've sent kids to swim at Notre Dame, Boston College, NYU, Emory, UPenn, U Cincinnati, UNC Wilmington, and Loyola. It's a fun, intense community. The team wins a lot, and that can breed resentment, but if you are considering joining you should get the facts and not sour grapes and apocryphal nonsense.

Getting into a good school doesn't mean that your kid isn't obnoxious on the pool deck or at meets. Swimmers in general tend to be well accomplished. The fact that kids from other teams were celebrating when Tuckahoe beat Chesterbrook last summer tells you everything you need to know about how the swim team is regarded by everyone else and it isn't positive.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the Duke of summer swim.

[Anonymous]

When we moved back into the area years ago, I looked at Tuckahoe and Chesterbrook. We looked at joining Tuckahoe because it has year round indoor facilities including a gym, as well as things like a playground for smaller kids to use during swim breaks. My kids don't do swim team so I have no dog in that fight, though I was proud of Tuckahoe for breaking through (from what I've heard) the Chesterbook-Overlee gridlock at the top.

Tuckahoe was the best fit for us, I looked at Chesterbrook out of nostalgia because my family had a membership there back when I was a kid, but their way of handling the wait list, the free for all one day in January, seemed kind of ridiculous to me, and we came off the list quickly at Tuckahoe as it was, which made the decision easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worst behaved swim team in the area but nice facilities. If you want to do swim team though I would join Tuckahoe, Highlands, Kent Gardens, or McLean Swim and Tennis...all mich nicer environments for swimmers.

What does worst behaved team mean?

Some of the senior swimmers, who should be able to model good sportsmanship to the younger kids, do ostentatious things to dq when they have already won a meet. Some have broken into other swim facilities and vandalized the property, left dead animals on cars displaying rival team stickers, sh!t in other pools after hours to get it closed down, that sort of thing. They are the reason some other pools have installed security systems.

Not surprising when the team parents have been known to display a “championship table” laden with filled champagne glasses before a final season meet even starts. I’m sure the warm champagne goes down well on a hot summer day.

Either you are aware of the actual facts and are purposefully misrepresenting things, or you have no idea what you are talking about.

For instance, at the last home meet, there are plastic champagne flutes filled with red gatorade (one of Chesterbrook's colors) for swimmers to toast the outgoing seniors. No one drinks champagne.

The team has changed a lot over the past ten years and now emphasizes sportsmanship and love of the sport. In the past two years, they've sent kids to swim at Notre Dame, Boston College, NYU, Emory, UPenn, U Cincinnati, UNC Wilmington, and Loyola. It's a fun, intense community. The team wins a lot, and that can breed resentment, but if you are considering joining you should get the facts and not sour grapes and apocryphal nonsense.

Getting into a good school doesn't mean that your kid isn't obnoxious on the pool deck or at meets. Swimmers in general tend to be well accomplished. The fact that kids from other teams were celebrating when Tuckahoe beat Chesterbrook last summer tells you everything you need to know about how the swim team is regarded by everyone else and it isn't positive.

This is just moronic. Why does everyone tune into March Madness and delight when 1 and 2 seeds lose (so long as it is not their alma mater). People love upsets. If you win a lot, people instinctively love to see you lose. Chesterbrook has had a string of recent success. That's why teams cheered when they lost. And for anyone in the know, ask the Division 1 Rep which team exhibited better sportsmanship during and after the CB-T meet. It wasn't T. There are real facts there for anyone who cares to know.

What pool are you at? That's the one everyone should avoid... Taking to anonymous message boards to malign teenagers having fun is the sort of petty, infantile crap that no one wants to have to deal with in the summer. Grow up. Get some therapy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Member here. Chesterbrook prides itself on having one of the top-ranked swim teams in all of Northern Virginia Swim League (NVSL) (generally competing with Overlee and Tuckahoe for the #1 position). They renovated 3 years ago but the changing rooms and snack bar are small and outdated. The club itself has a very active social scene, and is welcoming whether or not families are part of the swim team. (My kids, for example, are not good enough swimmers to swim in the "A" meets, but still love being part of the team, and adore the coaches.) They also have a dive team and tennis team, of course.

The new baby/toddler pool is great. My kids had outgrown it before the renovation, but we spent many, many happy hours using the previous wading pool and made a lot of friends.

However, unlike most other pools in the area, there is no membership wait list. Chesterbrook has an annual membership sign-up, typically at noon on the second Saturday of January, so you have just missed it. Available memberships are usually filled within 5 minutes of the online sign-up.

Is this hunger games style???? I don't understand why you would do this. I assume that prior members get priority?

She’s talking about new memberships. Once you’re in, you’re in.

The point is to get competitive swimmers onto the team quickly. There’s not a wait list for certain applicants.

100% false. There are no teams in the area who bump someone up a wait list spot or require no wait list for membership just because the kid is a great swimmer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Member here. Chesterbrook prides itself on having one of the top-ranked swim teams in all of Northern Virginia Swim League (NVSL) (generally competing with Overlee and Tuckahoe for the #1 position). They renovated 3 years ago but the changing rooms and snack bar are small and outdated. The club itself has a very active social scene, and is welcoming whether or not families are part of the swim team. (My kids, for example, are not good enough swimmers to swim in the "A" meets, but still love being part of the team, and adore the coaches.) They also have a dive team and tennis team, of course.

The new baby/toddler pool is great. My kids had outgrown it before the renovation, but we spent many, many happy hours using the previous wading pool and made a lot of friends.

However, unlike most other pools in the area, there is no membership wait list. Chesterbrook has an annual membership sign-up, typically at noon on the second Saturday of January, so you have just missed it. Available memberships are usually filled within 5 minutes of the online sign-up.

Is this hunger games style???? I don't understand why you would do this. I assume that prior members get priority?

She’s talking about new memberships. Once you’re in, you’re in.

The point is to get competitive swimmers onto the team quickly. There’s not a wait list for certain applicants.

100% false. There are no teams in the area who bump someone up a wait list spot or require no wait list for membership just because the kid is a great swimmer.