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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our hoa, little rocky run, has 2800 households with automatic number of pool memberships. If it was just about numbers, we would be competitive in D1. [/quote]

that gets to a fundamental difference between a place like Overlee. At LRR, you are automatically in whether you really care or not, and whether or not you have young children.  At Overlee, you had to get on their waitlist before your kid was born.

I do also find it odd, that looking at a map of NVSL pools (https://www.mynvsl.com/file/31348/NVSL_Map_of_102_Teams_updated_pdf)  , all D1 teams are clustered together in the North Arlington/Falls Church/Mclean area. [/quote]

Partially it’s the same reason good schools are also in those areas. Money. Money buys year round club teams. Money buys coaches and lessons. There is a reason SportFair and SwimBox are also in N Arlington and Norman swimming can fill multiple time slots at multiple pools every week for families that pay $1000 and commit to 9 months of lessons and Big Blue and Goldfish and Arlington parks and rec also fill all their classes - parents in that area are swim obsessed. And because it’s the thing to do, it perpetuates and snowballs into more of a thing to do. A mom posted to Moms of North Arlington this week to ask what lessons would prep her preschooler for swim team. Living in N Arlington, a lot of parents we meet who grew up in NoVa were on swim team and I’ve met more than 1 family where the parent was a D1 swimmer. And one of the D1 swimmer parents we know does have kids at an D1 pool and told us they purposely bought a house with a pool membership transfer when their kids were in preschool. [/quote]

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