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[quote=Anonymous]Your friend may be disappointed with the pool/swim team situation in the DC metro area.

In my hometown (a mid-sized city in the US), every public high school has its own pool on its campus.  The school swim teams are very competitive and robust.

Here in the DC area, there are very few indoor pools relative to the dense population.  It was a true shock to me when I moved here 10 years ago, but people who are from here seem to just accept it as normal.  Maybe land is so expensive that it's not possible to build more indoor pools.

Surprisingly, several of the private high schools have swim teams, but a lot of them don't have a pool on their campus.

Most of the public high schools have swim and dive teams, and they are probably a bit more competitive than the private school swim teams, but most of them (to my knowledge) swim at rec centers and not at pools on their own campuses.

So the club swim teams are where it all happens.  Too bad there is not a more robust set of swim teams in the DC area.  But your friends kids can do NCAP, which is very robust and competitive (just not associated with a school).  I prefer the robust school-affiliated swim teams myself, but I don't see a lot of that in the DC area.[/quote]

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