Sports

Here's What You Don't Do in the Pool

Don't pee in the pool! And other things.

Pool director Ann Monohan, assistant director Jessica Riopel and lifeguard Roy Backstrom demonstrate "what not to do in a pool" at the Shrewsbury Health and Racquet Club (SHARC).  

In case it is difficult to tell from the video, the basics are: don't fight in the pool, don't hang on the ropes, don't pretend you're drowning and don't hang on one another. And if Patch can add one, we'd say, if you've got to go to the bathroom...go to the bathroom in the bathroom. Not the pool. 

SHARC offers a swim club, aquatics exercise, swim classes and pool passes. Check out their schedules, and rules, here. 


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