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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any pool that is shallow.

Oakton- their pool is so damn shallow and they don't even take the time to fill it to the top. Kids have to dive into an area that is dangerously shallow.

We had a meet at another pool years ago and swimmers were getting DQd for pushing off the bottom at the turn because it's pretty hard for a kid who is over 6 ft to turn in 2.5 feet of water. [/quote]

YES.  We were in the league with Dunn Loring in 2021, and our older boys were coming out from their races with red chests from scraping the bottom of the pool on their entry dives. Also, the Dunn Loring pool board made the visiting team parents sit completely outside the swim club chain link fence to watch the meet "because of COVID" even though the Dunn Loring parents were allowed to sit inside the Dunn Loring team area with their kids to watch the meet-- which also happened to completely block the view of the pool for the visiting team parents. The idea that you could stop the spread of COVID by keeping only the visiting parents outside of a chain link face was just ridiculous-- it seemed to be an excuse for deliberately saving the best viewing location for their own club members. Worst pool we've ever swam against. [/quote]

That is unbelievable.  The best seats should be given to the visiting pool, not the home team (this is how we do it).  And the host parents should be working the meet and not need the seats.[/quote]

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