The actors in Water Boys were all selected as good swimmers with no dancing or synchro experience. The main characters had of course to be proper actors and swimmers.
My guess is that they were university students on their summer break, if you watch the TV series you can actually see them ageing between episodes. It must have been quite stressful to take over a school in the summer break and push out an 11-12 episode series 3 years running.
When you watch the 3rd TV series you will discover that proper synchronised swimming takes place in a 3m deep pool. The Water Boys always operate in school Olympic racing pools (50m long). They are able to throw each other out of the water with great force as they are standing on the bottom but have little room for error while passing each other underwater at different depths.
The only 3m deep pools available for training and competition are diving pools, and sections of larger pools under the diving boards. As this limits space proper synchronised swimming cannot really perform the mass spectaculars that Water Boys achieve.
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