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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was another thread where someone mentioned Little Falls Swim Club being a clique-y pool. And a DP said maybe there's a lack of DEI, which I understand to be diversity, equity and inclusion. It's challenging because the clubs are locality based and, well, these aren't economically or racially diverse places. How can swim clubs be more inclusive?[/quote]

I find this to be a funny statement.  Our swim club has tremendous DEI.  We swim against team after team that does not. Most of these pools are in affluent areas and chose schools with low FARMS and high Greatschool ratings (probably the vehicle that perpetuates racism more than anything).  We live in a nice neighborhood but with bad schools by DCUM standards.  If you hit the real estate board or even the education stuff they will tell you - STAY away from south Arlington, Alexandria, Annandale, etc. You can't move away from brown people and then want to bus them into your pools.[/quote]

Not what about hiring practices? There are POC in my neighborhood maybe their job the team if the coach looked like them. At least my POC family feels that way.  What about having summer events that are tied to different, authentic cultural celebrations instead of some awkward luau that has no input from the actual Hawaiian- descent family. The problem is the POC aren't even given any consideration at all. [/quote]

We have an immensely diverse coaching staff but an immensely diverse swimming population as well.  Sometimes diverse coaches want to coach for a team with diversity.  We actually recruit on that. But our neighborhoods are diverse and inclusive.  We did not self segregate.[/quote]

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