During the summer months, popular attractions at neighborhood pools are the swimming and diving record boards usually somewhere on display at most venues.
They highlight top achievements of the team participants from past – sometimes decades ago – as well as current seasons.
Some are exhibited more prominently. Some also have just swimming records, no diving.
An interesting dilemma at the pools is when to update the record boards. Is that done repeatedly if needed during the current summer swim and dive seasons? Some pools do. Others wait until the end of the campaigns, usually around the first of August, to update, or do so during the offseason.
Some boards have different spaces for team and pool records, whole many offer just the best team marks.
The way some of the modern record boards are constructed, daily updates from week-to-week are not easily doable, and is more of a process that has to be outsourced.
Whatever the case, those record boards can be interesting to read, especially old individual marks still unbroken and held by the likes of two-time gold-medal Olympian Tom Dolan. His name is still on display for pool and team marks set from 1984 to 1990 on the record board at the Washington Golf & Country Club pool in Arlington.
The names of others like Ryan Baker (2004 through 2008) and Christine Smith (1980-88) also still appear on that board for their marks set way back.
