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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given the area you mentioned look at Franklin Farms, Fox Mill and Fair Oaks. Hopefully others will chime in on which one of those is good, bad or indifferent b[/quote]

Franklin Farm- Pool is nice and in a beautiful area with nice tennis courts. Great community feel. Colonial League, so don’t know much about the swim team.

Fox Mill- there are two pools: Fox mill woods and Fox mill estates. Both NVSL. Both lower divisions so swim team is less competitive/more fun. FMW has beautiful facilities and is surrounded by woods so feels very secluded.

Fair Oaks- NVSL division 3. Much more competitive. Your swimmer would most likely need to be swimming year round if they wanted to do A meets. No tennis courts, but pool is decent.

Pinecrest-  Not on PPs list, but if you are in the 20171 zip code, you are eligible to join this club. Friendly, tight-knit community. NVSL division 5. Also probably need to be a club swimmer if you want to swim the A meets. Nice pool with great diving boards and slide. Really nice tennis courts. Clubhouse was refreshed over the summer so changing facilities/ bathrooms are brand new.

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How are the coaches for these clubs? Any insight?[/quote]

From talking to friends, it seems like NVSL teams hire adult head coaches who also coach club teams and tend to coach the same summer team for multiple years. My sense of CSL is that there is more hiring of recent college grads who grew up in the neighborhood (since they are HOA based pools) as head coaches. This does lead to more turnover as many of those kids move on to non-coaching jobs. There are pros and cons. The adult "career" coaches will be a bit more professional, but it also means they take it all more seriously, maybe too serious for summer league.

Another tradeoff with CSL vs. NVSL is the number of individual events at A meets. I think you get 3 at CSL and 2 at NVSL. If your swimmer is a fast year round swimmer, then it's great either way. If they are more of a summer swimmer who is strong at only one or two events, it can be tough to break into the lineup for a CSL A meet because the fastest few kids can basically cover all of the events. On the flip side it's a lot easier to make CSL all stars because there are not nearly as many teams. [/quote]

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