Please review this connection pool. I tested it and it works but can we improve it from design or performance perspective

public class ConnectionPool {
    
    private static final int MAX_SIZE=10;
    private static final BlockingQueue<Connection> bq;
    
    static{
        bq= new ArrayBlockingQueue<Connection>(MAX_SIZE);
        for(int i=0;i<MAX_SIZE;i++)
        {
            try {
                bq.add(makeConnection());
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        
        System.out.println("total size:" + bq.size());
    }
    
    public static Connection getConnection() throws InterruptedException
    {
        System.out.println("size before getting connection"+ bq.size());
        Connection con=bq.take();
        System.out.println("size after getting connection"+ bq.size());
        return (con);
    }
    
    public static boolean releaseConnection(Connection con) throws InterruptedException
    {
        System.out.println("size before releasing connection"+ bq.size());
        boolean bool =bq.add(con);
        System.out.println("size after releasing connection"+ bq.size());
        return (bool);
    }
    
    public static Connection makeConnection() throws SQLException {
        Connection conn = null;
        Properties connectionProps = new Properties();
        connectionProps.put("user", "root");
        connectionProps.put("password", "java33");
        try {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }  
        conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:" + "mysql" + "://"
                + "localhost" + ":" + "3306" + "/test", connectionProps);

        System.out.println("Connected to database");
        return conn;
    }

 
}

Please review this connection pool. I tested it and it works but can we improve it from design or performance perspective?

public class ConnectionPool {
    
    private static final int MAX_SIZE=10;
    private static final BlockingQueue<Connection> bq;
    
    static{
        bq= new ArrayBlockingQueue<Connection>(MAX_SIZE);
        for(int i=0;i<MAX_SIZE;i++)
        {
            try {
                bq.add(makeConnection());
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        
        System.out.println("total size:" + bq.size());
    }
    
    public static Connection getConnection() throws InterruptedException
    {
        System.out.println("size before getting connection"+ bq.size());
        Connection con=bq.take();
        System.out.println("size after getting connection"+ bq.size());
        return (con);
    }
    
    public static boolean releaseConnection(Connection con) throws InterruptedException
    {
        System.out.println("size before releasing connection"+ bq.size());
        boolean bool =bq.add(con);
        System.out.println("size after releasing connection"+ bq.size());
        return (bool);
    }
    
    public static Connection makeConnection() throws SQLException {
        Connection conn = null;
        Properties connectionProps = new Properties();
        connectionProps.put("user", "root");
        connectionProps.put("password", "java33");
        try {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }  
        conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:" + "mysql" + "://"
                + "localhost" + ":" + "3306" + "/test", connectionProps);

        System.out.println("Connected to database");
        return conn;
    }
}