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Speak Out
New city-run pool a much-needed resource
I moved to Sunnyvale last year after six years of living in Mountain View. I had heard that Sunnyvale was one of the best-run cities in the country, and I looked forward to switching from the Mountain View Masters swim club to the Sunnyvale Masters. A city as well-managed as Sunnyvale was sure to offer me my pick of great aquatic facilities.
Of course, as I soon found out, there ISN'T any Sunnyvale Masters program, because we don't have a pool big enough for serious adult swimming. I went (once) to open swim hour at the Washington Park pool, but I found it was full of dozens of bouncing little kids, and only two lanes were given over to lap swimming. These two lanes were occupied by what appeared to be a boys' high school swim team doing a workout. As a non-competitive, non-child swimmer, I couldn't swim in either section. According to Friends of the Fremont Pool, the newest city-owned pool in Sunnyvale was this sad little pool, built 47 years ago.
Currently I swim, without a coach or team, in the tiny, four-lane pool at the nearby 24 Hour Fitness club. A friend of mine recently paid $2,000 to join a private club so her children could have access to a decent pool and train in a competitive-size facility. This shouldn't happen in a large, financially stable, family-heavy city like ours. Let's encourage the Sunnyvale City Council to say Yes to the proposed 50-meter pool at Fremont High School and develop the aquatic resources that adults and children in this city so badly want and need. It would be money well spent on the health and quality of life of Sunnyvale citizens.
Christina Cary
Sunnyvale
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Sunnyvale, California Since 1994
