 Our teams are so close-knit. We do stuff all the time outside of the pool. When you have that good community, it makes it so much easier to function because you know you can rely on each other and you have that connection. Haley Defoe is a lifeguard working her seventh summer at the pool. She says the responsibility of her position is not lost on her. But it wasn't until a patron suffered a spinal injury halfway through her first summer that the full weight of her role truly sank in.