Carrie Wall finally speaks

I'll be back later to comment more fully.

Here is the latest article in the paper.  At first glance, I see a lack of foresight.  I suspect they talked to zero swim families before the changes.  (I've not heard of any, at least).

[updated, later, below]

120 swimmers have left, and 36 family memberships -- dues-paying members -- have stopped.  Some swim team families had 2 swimmers -- I can't think of any with three.  So 36 family memberships gone, plus a number of individual memberships, and their dues, gone.  (My son, for example, just is an individual member;  we were family members for a year or two after he joined way back when, but we didn't use the facilities and cut back).  All of these reductions in memberships, and in incoming dues, cannot be helping the bottom line.  It's possible that people will see the open pool now and join.  But I rather doubt there will be a net gain.

I'm left wondering how the number of people who, in exit interviews, cited the lack of pool space compares to the number of swim families who have left.  But apparently there's a cadre of swimmers now -- we're assured they exist! -- that is happier now that they can swim unimpeded.  Better to have 10 happy lap swimmers, I guess, in Carrie Wall's view, than a pool full of dues-paying members (with 10 swimmers per lane!).  That's very odd reasoning, and it might reflect why there is a substantial deficit right now.

The comments in that article are kinda blistering.

It does make me want to swing by the Y to look at the Pool when the swim team kids would have been swimming.