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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not feeling as together as last year but I think people were more motivated and excited about new changes. My real job has also ticked up. Registration has been slow though. [/quote]

I’m on the club board and our team rep also says that team registration has been slow, and lower at this point than recent years. Overall, new club memberships are also down compared to recent years.

Our team rep is elected to the board. I don’t ever recall much drama. It’s pretty smooth.[/quote]

I know a few people not doing summer swim this year because of RTO. Kind of a bummer. [/quote]

RTO?
All I can think of is relay take-off.[/quote]
I’m assuming pp means return to office [/quote]

Ah! Thanks. We didn't even think of that.

What did they do before when they weren't working from home? [/quote]

We didn’t put the kids on swim team.  Only started in 2020 and was able to keep doing it up until now when every company suddenly mandated RTO. So likely will not be able to continue. Sad for us and the kids. [/quote]

Our team hasn't seen a bump in registrations since 2020. If anything it has remained flat or even dropped a bit.[/quote]

Same. We have long waitlists for membership at our club- probably the longest in 7-8 years- but registrations for swim and dive have been lower every year since 2020. The current 9-10 cohort will always be anemic because they missed mini team and a lot of them missed lessons and they filled their summers with other things.

Our current crop of 4-5 year olds is huge, though, so it will be interesting to see if they get involved in swim and dive in the years to come. I can't get a read on the younger parents. They're enthusiastic now when it's 1x/week lessons (our pool gets a bubble for the winter) and they can sit and chat with each other, but I'm not sure if they'll still be excited when they they're being asked to fight weekday traffic at 3:45 pm for summer swim meet volunteering.[/quote]

PP that you quoted here.
We are nowhere near having a waitlist. Memberships have increased slightly over the past few years, but we are usually 80-100 memberships short of having a waitlist.[/quote]

Ah, I understand. I thought you meant registrations for swim team were down in spite of steady overall membership numbers.

Our old pool was in this situation as recently as 2019- membership was down and 25% of memberships were available. What helped was that word got out to other pools with long waitlists that this pool had open memberships. 1-2 families who lived outside the area and belonged to the pool brought in a few new families from outside the area, and those brought in a few more. Then the immediate neighborhood had a lot of turnover with older people selling and young families moving in. The pool is now full with a waitlist.

What helped were: a steady lesson program open to the public outside of the pool, especially when lessons were hard to come by post-covid, plus weeklong August camps for water polo and diving that attracted kids from other areas who didn't have access to summer league and wanted to try the sports recreationally. They also offered half-season trial memberships (late July through Labor Day) with no initiation fee that were limited to one summer only. This brought in a ton of families who weren't big swimmers or were new to the US and wary of a big commitment or not sure if they were pool people.

If your pool doesn't have neighborhood or geographic boundaries, it really helps to reach out to families who might live in areas with long waitlists. [/quote]

Our membership has been improving over the past 5-8 years, but slowly. Since 2016 our membership total has grown from 235 to 268. (Bonded memberships went from 205 to 219.)

We don’t have neighborhood boundaries and there is a club that’s an about half mile away or so that usually has or is close to having a waitlist. It’s also more than twice the initial cost. There is another club no more than a mile away and they both have days where they hit capacity and people have to wait to get in. We do offer late July-Labor Day memberships and our tennis programs have brought in some non-members. It’s also a club that is not very visible and we work to even get the word out about it.[/quote]

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