If you visit the pool at the Eden Prairie Community Center you will notice "no diving" signs everywhere. That's not unusual for a pool. What's terrible, though, is that our pool doesn't allow diving from blocks for competitive swimming. The high school league changed the minimum depth a few years back and ever since the best swim program in the state has had to compete across town at an intermediate school.
As a former competitive swimmer I feel the pain. I remember all-too-well how a 5th place showing by my high school's hockey team in the state tournament received more recognition than a state championship by the swim team I was on.
The wound still hasn't healed. And that was over 25 years ago.
It's not realistic in today's economic times for our city to build the pool which EP swimmers deserve. But, I wonder how much it would cost to simply deepen the pool which we have.
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