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I'm guessing the "competitive pool" poster is from a NVSL Division 1 pool, [b]where they recruit swimmers[/b] and it is INTENSE. 
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Only Tuckahoe and Chesterbrook.[/quote]

It’s off topic but I can’t let this slide. Overlee [b]invented[/b] NVSL recruiting, and I imagine any number of upper division teams who don’t have geographic membership boundaries do it as well.[/quote]

Swimmers for Overlee have to get through the regular, years long waitlist to swim for the team. There isn’t a special number to call to bypass the waitlist, team members “visiting from Maryland for the summer”, special swim team memberships, etc.[/quote]

Nope, there’s a buried exception in their membership rules. Overlee does, however, have far better sportsmanship practices.[/quote]

I would love to see that exception.[/quote]

“Special Pool Privileges

The Overlee Board may, from time to time, grant special pool privileges/passes to certain individuals such as the families of past Overlee managers, employees, and volunteers who have made a significant contribution to the Overlee community. The criteria for determining an individual’s eligibility include the person’s past or current contributions to Overlee, the person’s special circumstances that warrant special privileges at Overlee, the public interest, if any, that is served by a grant, the impact of such grant of privileges on the Overlee membership at large and on Overlee policies and such other criteria as may be deemed appropriate by the Membership Committee. The list of recipients is reviewed and approved by the Membership Committee and by the entire Board at least once each year.”[/quote]

This isn’t something that is being used for swim team recruitment. There are rarely new “seasoned” swimmers that join the team, and in those rare cases, they did their time on the waitlist. [/quote]

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