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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks everyone. My son swam for our club and the coaches do not know any here. I was hoping they did! He was a decent swimmer but not setting records fast. I think his 50 free was 41.23 seconds. I called Tollefson and All Star Aquatics and both didn't even ask questions but just said they're full. What about the dolphins? One of the teams I called mentioned them. I looked up dolphins and a few teams come up. Anyone have info on that team?[/quote]
That club was Joe Flaherty’s Dolphins and probably would have been a great fit, but I don’t think they have a competitive age group program this year. There was a shake-up with the club  and many of the coaches went to a new club called Quince Orchard Swim Academy which is in Gaithersburg. Try to reach out to Sea Devils, it’s a more low key club that I can’t imagine being full to the point that they would reject a kid with club experience. [/quote]

Didn’t the team just fold?[/quote]

Not a "fold", still around:

https://www.jfdolphins.com/page/home

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Not really. No meets and he lost almost all his coaches to QOSA.[/quote]

You are using your own personal definition of "fold" that nobody else uses - "fold" implies that they don't exist at all, which isn't the case here.

Although no meets would be a deal-breaker for many, there is a whole cohort of kids/families that actually seek this out.

So, not a fold.

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Folded as a USA SWIMMING club team. They now exist as a stroke clinic. [/quote]

Newp.

Not sure why you'd insist on tripling-down on being wrong, but you do you, boo.

Still clearly affiliated with Potomac Valley Swimming and USA Swimming:

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/6qGpPXjr/temp-Image73x-Hwo.avif[/img]

https://www.jfdolphins.com/page/home

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NP. For many, having zero meets doesn't really give the feel of a team. Especially when Joe Flaherty himself advocated for a meet a month as a "report card" to show progress and improvement.

If you look at the registration page, he doesn't even call it a "team" anymore. He lists lessons, stroke and turn, and "advanced athletes" to "prepare them" to compete for a school, club, or team. But the info on the JFD page doesn't really make it sound like they're hosting a team. [/quote]

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