Cold pool for first week of summer swim

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Anonymous wrote:Why did I pick that pool?

Because you join three waitlists when your kids are in diapers and pray that you get off one by the time they hit the age to do swim team. I was not evaluating the pools based on the swim team practice times at that point. And if I had the luxury of picking a pool based on how well it fit our needs for swim team, or whatever, we would! But of course then my kids would have aged out by the time we got off the waiting list...or the practice schedule would have changed.

Seriously?!

DP. I will add that waitlists are unheard of and not even on the radar for some of us where a club might have almost half of their memberships available.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone clue me in on how people make swim practices from 9-10am (or even later) happen with summer camps etc?

We get a summer babysitter and miss one week of swim and diving team for a camp. This year it’s soccer. Our swim team ends the 3rd week of July so that leaves one more July week for a different camp. When my kid is old enough for sleepaway camp, they will do second session of camp and miss swim championships, but they’re ok with that.

Thanks... So if swim team is only one hour mid day and both parents work, you get a babysitter to drive to swim practice and then deliver to camp late? Or just a full season babysitter? I was expecting team practice to be from 7-8 or 8-9am, not in the middle of the day.

I've never seen a practice in the middle of the day.

Our pool the youngest kids swim first.

10 and under -- 8:00 to 8:50
11 - 13 -- 8:50 to 9:40
14 and up 9:40 - 10:30 (doesn't need camp
Preteam (which a working parent could just skip) 10:30 - 11:00

At 11:00 the pool opens to the general public.

Afternoon, it's

10 and under: 4:30 -- 5:20
11 - 13 5:20 - 6:10
14 and up 6:10 - 7:00

So, 10 and under, you can go and then drop at a camp that starts at 9:00
11 - 13, do a full day of camp and then bike to practice or something

Our practices are in the evening while school is in session and then they move to mornings after school lets out for the summer. Do you have a.m. and p.m. practices on the same day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the reason my kids never joined the swim team. Morning practices with cold water didn’t sound fun to them.

+2. I'd not want to jump in a freezing pool at 8/9 a.m. Neither did my kids. So we never forced it.

They still learned to swim just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did I pick that pool?

Because you join three waitlists when your kids are in diapers and pray that you get off one by the time they hit the age to do swim team. I was not evaluating the pools based on the swim team practice times at that point. And if I had the luxury of picking a pool based on how well it fit our needs for swim team, or whatever, we would! But of course then my kids would have aged out by the time we got off the waiting list...or the practice schedule would have changed.

Seriously?!

DP. I will add that waitlists are unheard of and not even on the radar for some of us where a club might have almost half of their memberships available.

Well, now they’re heard of and on your radar.