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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting read.  We were Overlee members for years in the late 90 and early 2000s and had kids on the swim team.  Decades later and they’re still the top of the heap?  I’m honestly curious how that happens.  Don’t you have to live in the neighborhood to join the pool?  Do they recruit?

Back in our day, at least, literally everyone on the team lived in the neighborhood. We knew them all.

I never liked the swim team only because the meets were long and boring and the parents got on my nerves.  I have a thing against rich white privilege even though my kids fit the stereotype.  The kids had fun though, so I smiled and sucked it up.

I never sensed any more competitiveness at Overlee and the swim team than any other thing/activity in North Arlington more generally.  I find it hard to believe that things are dramatically different in neighborhoods outside of Overlee.  Maybe prolonged success breeds jealousy and contempt - like the Yankees or Notre Dame football?  But in the end they are only neighborhood pools having silly summer swim meets with other neighborhoods with very little at stake.   So it it really fair to say that Overlee parents suck and are super competitive if other parents from other neighborhoods themselves care so much about all of this bullshit that they’re starting threads about it?  Isn’t that a case of pot calling kettle?

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