Best High School for swimming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yorkotwn HS's swim team in Arlington won the state champs at least twice in the past decade. The school has its own indoor pool (which is practically brand new--the school was rebuilt 4 years ago).

Tom Dolan is a Yorktown alum. And I believe he swam for Overlee's swim team, one of the dominant, if not the dominant, summer swim leagues in the region.

This past year, at the state tournament, the Yorktown boys finished behind all four of the schools the OP noted they were considering, and the Yorktown girls finished behind Robinson, McLean and Chantilly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are many, many members of my kids' high school swim team that do not swim year round, but the better swimmer who are selected for meets against other schools certainly tend to be year-round club swimmers. I have a hard time as a parent because obviously I want my kids to do well at the sport, but we don't do swim clubs because my kids like doing other sports and don't want to specialize. I don't know if it is all that extra training, if it is just self selective (better swimmer join swim club) but the club kids are just faster that the other team members. I think my kids get discouraged because the gap between them and the year-round swimmer gets bigger every year.

They are faster b/c of all the training.