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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So people pay to join Overlee pool and then their kids can't even join the swim team if they want to? [/quote]

I don’t believe this is the case.  any kid who can swim can be on the team. We had a B meet against Tuckahoe (a Div 1 team). The team was huge (200 swimmmers)  and there were plenty of kids who were not decent swimmers. At pp said, all teams have time trials. It’s how they get initial times for the all the kids and decide who swims at the first A/Saturday meet. It’s also used as a measure of improvement for all swimmers over the season. Now with a Div 1 team or any really large team your kids needs to be a top swimmer/typically year round to make the A team cut. But anyone can swim b meets. [/quote]

You have to kinda be able to swim a 25 - at least mostly make it across without drowning to do the B meets.  Most of the private pools have preteam and lessons for kids not on team and they will take any member's child who wants to swim or learn.  Public pools have to limit the kids as with 200 kids, its tuff and meets take hours and practices are overcrowded but if they let everyone in some of those teams would be 300+ kids and it isn't manageable except if they split it up into two teams.  Most people belong to private pools here but some of us are with the public county pool teams.  Very big difference on how they are run and it really varies by team rep as the other county teams are run much differently than ours.[/quote]

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