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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Worst behaved swim team in the area but nice facilities.  If you want to do swim team though I would join Tuckahoe, Highlands, Kent Gardens, or McLean Swim and Tennis...all mich nicer environments for swimmers.[/quote]

What does worst behaved team mean?[/quote]

Some of the senior swimmers, who should be able to model good sportsmanship to the younger kids, do ostentatious things to dq when they have already won a meet. Some have broken into other swim facilities and vandalized the property, left dead animals on cars displaying rival team stickers, sh!t in other pools after hours to get it closed down, that sort of thing. They are the reason some other pools have installed security systems.

Not surprising when the team parents have been known to display a “championship table” laden with filled champagne glasses before a final season meet even starts. I’m sure the warm champagne goes down well on a hot summer day. [/quote]

Either you are aware of the actual facts and are purposefully misrepresenting things, or you have no idea what you are talking about.

For instance, at the last home meet, there are plastic champagne flutes filled with red gatorade (one of Chesterbrook's colors) for swimmers to toast the outgoing seniors.  No one drinks champagne.

The team has changed a lot over the past ten years and now emphasizes sportsmanship and love of the sport.  In the past two years, they've sent kids to swim at Notre Dame, Boston College, NYU, Emory, UPenn, U Cincinnati, UNC Wilmington, and Loyola.  It's a fun, intense community.  The team wins a lot, and that can breed resentment, but if you are considering joining you should get the facts and not sour grapes and apocryphal nonsense.[/quote]

Getting into a good school doesn't mean that your kid isn't obnoxious on the pool deck or at meets.  Swimmers in general tend to be well accomplished.  The fact that kids from other teams were celebrating when Tuckahoe beat Chesterbrook last summer tells you everything you need to know about how the swim team is regarded by everyone else and it isn't positive.[/quote]

This is just moronic.  Why does everyone tune into March Madness and delight when 1 and 2 seeds lose (so long as it is not their alma mater).  People love upsets.  If you win a lot, people instinctively love to see you lose.  Chesterbrook has had a string of recent success.  That's why teams cheered when they lost.  And for anyone in the know, ask the Division 1 Rep which team exhibited better sportsmanship during and after the CB-T meet.  It wasn't T.  There are real facts there for anyone who cares to know.

What pool are you at?  That's the one everyone should avoid... Taking to anonymous message boards to malign teenagers having fun is the sort of petty, infantile crap that no one wants to have to deal with in the summer.  Grow up.  Get some therapy.

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