{"id":565,"date":"2011-05-22T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2011-05-22T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T05:20:55","slug":"stapleton-stingray-swim-team-wait-list-now-longest-in-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Stapleton Stingray Swim Team Wait List Now Longest in Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[The Stapleton Stingray waiting list has just eclipsed that of the previously high waiting list of 175,000 for Washington Redskin season tickets.\u00a0 The Stingrays and Redskins are followed by the Packers, NY Giants, and Eagles.\u00a0 <!--more-->MCA Swim team head coach Adrienne Elmore understands the situation.\u00a0 \u201cFirst of all, we have a great swim team.\u00a0 Secondly, we currently have three pools and 8,000 kids, with that number growing fast.\u201d\u00a0 Only six percent of people that tried to sign their kids up for the swim team actually got on.\u00a0 Resident Carrie Hockenson is frustrated.\u00a0 \u201cWe set our alarm to get up at midnight to get our kids (4 and 6) on to the Stingrays.\u00a0 It filled up instantly.\u201d\u00a0 More pools are going in, but more kids continue to come to Stapleton.\u00a0 \u201cWe are doing our best, but aside from closing the pools to only swim classes from 6AM to 11PM, there\u2019s really nothing we can do,\u201d says Elmore.\nCurrently, Hockenson says that from her understanding, the best way to get involved with the Stapleton Stingrays is to have another child.\u00a0 \u201cThey told me that if I get pregnant, I can get on a wait list where by the time that child is 8, they would be guaranteed a spot.\u201d\u00a0 Whether or not a Hockenson is ever a Stingray does not affect the chances of Stapleton High School (when it gets here) winning several swimming state titles.\u00a0 \u201cAt this point, we really don\u2019t see any scenario where Stapleton doesn\u2019t win every team state swimming title for about 15 years after the HS is built.\u201d\u00a0 Neither do we, Adrienne.\u00a0 Nether do we.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-5","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}