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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm relieved our family moved to the DC area after our kids were too old to do swim team. The pool and swim culture here is just really foreign to me, and not in a good way. I suffered through some years of travel soccer, but swim team looks worse. Has this always been a "thing" in the DC suburbs or is it new to this generation of kids? Just curious how it got started and why it's so influential around here?[/quote]

Not from here and grew up on a river so no swim team! However, I think the moCo and nova teams have been around since the 70s at least? maybe 50's???Drive through any of the older neighborhoods around the beltway and all have pools/teams. The older families in our neighborhood all had 5 kids each  in the 60s/70s- they tell us at community events! What do you think kids did all day back then but hang out at the pool. I am thinking this is where it came from.

However, why do you say the  culture is weird? It is just an activity; has a very short season; practice every day, and two meets a week so people do spend time together. It also does things like pep rallys, bowling, swim-a - thon, year end  banquet.  Then it is over. I am very friendly to all / have a lot of fun chats for a few weeks and then many I wont see again until next summer.  our DC 's love it, get exercise, and have some structure. I don' t get what's so bad about swim team. I guess any group can feel exclusive. When my DC did baseball, there was a group who seem to run everything, when one did choir same thing.  That feeling of belonging can be had ( or not had with any activity.)[/quote]

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