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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they don’t offer it, [b]you need to push your team to have later afternoon practices for pre-team/full team as an option[/b].  Carpooling, too, and you do pick up if that’s still too early.  There are ways to do it, and summer swim was great fun for our kids.[/quote]

This would be a nonstarter at many/most pools. They aren’t going to shut down the pool to general membership at the busiest time of day.[/quote]

Why would you have to shut down the pool?  Is it that tiny?  We have a separate lap pool so, yes, laps are restricted on weekday afternoons.  Our pool leadership are smart enough to recognize that keeping their many, many working families happy and contributing to swim team is more important than catering to the relatively small number of adults who want to swim laps in the late afternoon.  They can do laps during early bird, anytime between 10am and 4pm, and then from 6 - 10pm.  I swim laps myself, so I understand wanting to do so, but these adults don't get priority over everyone else, all the time.[/quote]

That is awesome that you all have a separte lap pool.  Most NVSL pools do not.  They have one pool and some don't even have separate diving wells. Our pool used to do evening practices (we just have one pool) but stopped  a few years back for a number of reasons.  Our pool membership increased and in the evenings and afternoon working parents would bring their kids to play.  The swim team was taking up a LOT of the pool by putting out lap lanes.  Meanwhile attendance was spotty in the evening and erratic.  The coaches had a hard time getting kids to focus when they would see other kids playing (their friends).  Over the years we noticed that the evening practice kids did not do as well/perform as well.  They were getting compressed practices, oftentimes with kids of varying levels, it was distracting to have the general membership there, etc.

The pool is not just the swim team's pool.  There are a lot of demographics that use the pool.  There is swim, lessons, masters, families with young kids, etc.  We have a large team but having a large membership means we have 2/3 of the general membership having kids that are not on the team and want to use the pool.  So it was a disservice to take that time from them (in addition to Saturday home meets and Monday nights).
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