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Anonymous wrote:I think my question would be why doesn't all the high schools have swimming pools? I think all the public HS in DC has it

There are several, but it's not all public HS have them. Feels like it's more lower income areas other than JR (I think the pool is actually part of the connected rec center that's still named Wilson).

I grew up in western NY and every high school has a pool. Even many middle schools had them. And swimming isn’t even a big sport there! I really don’t understand why our high schools don’t have them here.

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Anonymous wrote:I think my question would be why doesn't all the high schools have swimming pools? I think all the public HS in DC has it

There are several, but it's not all public HS have them. Feels like it's more lower income areas other than JR (I think the pool is actually part of the connected rec center that's still named Wilson).

I grew up in western NY and every high school has a pool. Even many middle schools had them. And swimming isn’t even a big sport there! I really don’t understand why our high schools don’t have them here.

The answer to all your questions is money.

Western NY towns have no where near the money as around here.

DP - it's a space thing as much as (more than?) a money thing. DH is from WNY and we go there often - they have SO much more space for pools than we do. Not comparable in the slightest.

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Anonymous wrote:I think my question would be why doesn't all the high schools have swimming pools? I think all the public HS in DC has it

There are several, but it's not all public HS have them. Feels like it's more lower income areas other than JR (I think the pool is actually part of the connected rec center that's still named Wilson).

I grew up in western NY and every high school has a pool. Even many middle schools had them. And swimming isn’t even a big sport there! I really don’t understand why our high schools don’t have them here.

The answer to all your questions is money.

Western NY towns have no where near the money as around here.

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Anonymous wrote:I think my question would be why doesn't all the high schools have swimming pools? I think all the public HS in DC has it

There are several, but it's not all public HS have them. Feels like it's more lower income areas other than JR (I think the pool is actually part of the connected rec center that's still named Wilson).

I grew up in western NY and every high school has a pool. Even many middle schools had them. And swimming isn’t even a big sport there! I really don’t understand why our high schools don’t have them here.

The answer to all your questions is money.

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Anonymous wrote:I think my question would be why doesn't all the high schools have swimming pools? I think all the public HS in DC has it

There are several, but it's not all public HS have them. Feels like it's more lower income areas other than JR (I think the pool is actually part of the connected rec center that's still named Wilson).

I grew up in western NY and every high school has a pool. Even many middle schools had them. And swimming isn’t even a big sport there! I really don’t understand why our high schools don’t have them here.

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Anonymous wrote:I think my question would be why doesn't all the high schools have swimming pools? I think all the public HS in DC has it

There are several, but it's not all public HS have them. Feels like it's more lower income areas other than JR (I think the pool is actually part of the connected rec center that's still named Wilson).

I grew up in western NY and every high school has a pool. Even many middle schools had them. And swimming isn’t even a big sport there! I really don’t understand why our high schools don’t have them here.

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Anonymous wrote:Simple supply and demand plus parents able and willing to pay whatever the clubs want to charge. Just another rich kid sport now.

Yes, just think about how these exorbitant prices are making all the swim coaches and club owners so rich.

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm, but the money isn’t trickling down to coaches. It’s a second job for most. (I’m a parent not a coach.)
Club owners do likely turn a nice profit, but plenty of posters have laid out that expenses are exorbitant to run a club. Margins can’t be great.

It’s sarcasm. If you’re running a business in which margins aren’t great, you’re not reinvesting in infrastructure, core employees are working a second job, and the owners aren’t getting rich, then you aren’t charging exorbitant prices.

When a business charges too much and still sells out of its product, the “overcharged” revenue has to go somewhere, usually into the owners pockets.

Sounds like someone should start their own team since it’s such a cash cow!

The owners of these large clubs are found quite well. York, ASA, FISH, Marlins, etc are doing quite well in their net worth.

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Anonymous wrote:I think my question would be why doesn't all the high schools have swimming pools? I think all the public HS in DC has it

There are several, but it's not all public HS have them. Feels like it's more lower income areas other than JR (I think the pool is actually part of the connected rec center that's still named Wilson).

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Anonymous wrote:The cost of pool rental and insurance for starters is very $$$

Came here to say the same. Clubs rent space per lane per hour, which isn’t cheap given the high cost to operate an aquatic facility. Then there’s coach and any other employee compensation. Then whatever fees the club I assume has to pay to the LSC and USA Swimming. Then insurance (which is high for anything pool-related), technology platforms, etc.

It doesn't add up though, compared to what you pay to use lap lanes there are way more kids per lane. Usually, six to eight but way more if it's a popular summer league. Even crowded public lap lanes are seldom that full and general admission is way cheaper per person the expensive private pools usually just one or two people per lane.

I think it is more driven by the cost of the meets and swim coaches.

IMO, they should make it way cheaper for kids to swim together on swim teams so as to keep the kids from splashing the old ladies in deep-water running lanes.

People take that sport way too seriously for what it is and what the kids get out of it.

Well what you “think” isn’t actually true and it very much comes down to the cost of lane space.

I used this is example in another thread but the cost to rent a lane in Fairfax County is $29.87/hour so an 11 month group that practices 5x/week for 2hrs and has 8 lanes of space has a lane rental cost of ~$115,000 for the season which means you need 29 swimmers paying $4000 a year just to cover pool rental costs and not even coaching.

It may very well be $30 an hour for a lane, my observation is that at many pools I pay ~$6 an hour to use the lane and never have five people in the lane, especially at 6:00am. So, it is five times as expensive to use the lane, which is 8times as crowded. Doesn't add up. Especially if you consider a membership(family) is even cheaper per lane hour.

The deep water running ladies should pay up so they don't get splashed, because that is a bad deal for kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Pool space.

Let's build more pools in that empty office space!