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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the OP: We were at GMU today for a meet. The blocks are outdated and the pool had a remarkable amount of wash considering it is 50 metres and has a gutter. There was limited deck space and terrible spectator seating. Parking is not super fun. College kids share locker rooms with the kids and the kids are alone throughout the hallways leading to the locker rooms and pools. [/quote]

This is a very strange counter-factual post.  Are you basing your entire experience at GMU on one meet?  Some of what you say is really inaccurate.  I'm guessing you are a parent of a young child and were freaked out by the fact that you could not accompany them to the locker room.   I often encounter this type of parent at the door of GMU begging the volunteer manning the door to allow them to escort their child.  I can appreciate that it feels like you are sending your 6 year old off into the unknown.  But the reality is that there is one hallway and it leads directly to the pool and locker room- there is no way to get lost in the hallway.  College students are definitely not in the locker rooms during a swim meet.  Indeed- no adults are allowed in the locker rooms.  The deck space at GMU is vastly better than most other pools PVS swims at.  Similarly, the spectator seating is much better.  The only way I can think of that you could think the spectator seating was bad is if you somehow sat down on the wrong end from the pool your kid was swimming, and then didn't want to move????  Or alternatively that you couldn't see where your kid was sitting on deck- and were concerned about whether or not they had actually made it onto the deck or were lost in the hallway??
GMU is one of the easiest, if not the easiest pool to park at.  Have you ever been to the St. James?  Such limited parking and so many other things going on that you can be searching for street parking 1/2 mile away.  [/quote]

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