[M T]

https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/

Is that her backyard with the one-lane swimming pool? I put up a basketball hoop in my backyard for my son, but sheesh!

It appears to be a 3-lane pool.   When I moved into the south SF-Bay Area in 1980, the cul-de-sac I moved into had 14 homes, half of which had pools.  As a former swimmer (as is this recruit's mother), I liked the idea of having a pool for my family.  For me, a basketball hoop would have been useless, but to each their own.

I expect that pool was useful for training during COVID. (Remember the stories of Katie Ledecky, et al, trying to find pools to train in?)  Kayla's mother helped convince her community to open its only Olympic-sized pool in 2016 (effort started in 2011 apparently).

[M T]

https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/

Is that her backyard with the one-lane swimming pool? I put up a basketball hoop in my backyard for my son, but sheesh!

It appears to be a 3-lane pool.   When I moved into the south SF-Bay Area in 1980, the cul-de-sac I moved into had 14 homes, half of which had pools.  As a former swimmer (as is this recruit's mother), I liked the idea of having a pool for my family.  For me, a basketball hoop would have been useless, but to each their own.

I expect that pool was useful for training during COVID. (Remember the stories of Katie Ledecky, et al, trying to find pools to train in?)  Kayla's mother helped convince her community to open its only Olympic-sized pool in 2016 (effort started in 2011 apparently).