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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The swim parents at our pool like to think they’re laid back and chill but they aren’t.  The amount of screaming while
their  kids are swimming at meets is terrifying.  The kids are underwater— they can’t hear you and I don’t think they want to hear you either.  And the amount of time and volunteering the team expects from parents is also not laid-back.  Finally, the swim families are so clique-ish.  The parents don’t interact with non swim-team families, the kids think the pool belongs to them and not all the families.  Finally,  the families of top swimmers self-segregate from even the rest of the swim team families![/quote]

I went from new pool member with a kid in the 7-under minis program to a seasoned swim parent with a kid swimming all stars events over the last 2 years. The first summer I met hardly anyone new at the pool. I talked to people I already knew, and that’s about it. The second summer my kid was swimming A meets, and that’s how I got to know more people- seeing and volunteering with them at meets, talking at team lunches and socials, etc. Once my kid was swimming all stars I was in the trenches with some of those families- carpooling to other pools, volunteering side by side on a regular basis, etc. I’m an introverted person who wasn’t looking for a clique, but like with pretty much any social set up, you get to know the people you see a lot. That's why swim team families get to know each other in a way that isn’t deliberately exclusionary, but might look like it to people who aren’t a part of it. 
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