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Article: Swim team survives rocky year to play host to top meet.(Neighbor)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2000
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Of all the fallout from the Naperville YMCA's decision to drop its competitive swimming last year, one of the worries was that the team would lose its bid to be the host of 2000 Illinois State Age Group Swimming Championships.
Fortunately, like much of the aftermath from the controversial decision, everything has worked out OK.
The new Naperville Swim Team kept most of its swimmers from the YMCA squad. It also maintained the right to hold this weekend's Illinois State Age Group Championships, a primary fund-raiser for the swim program.
Not that there weren't some anxious moments after the YMCA's decision to drop the competitive program last ...