Swim Team Board

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle and can't wait to leave. Our parents kinda suck they make the rep's life pretty miserable.

Our coaches are mid and not there long enough to build a program. We've consistently dropped divisions. But we still have fun.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)

[Anonymous]

Each team does things differently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)

+1

Before club and year-round swimming, MCSL was just plain fun and lots of childhood memories. Now, people are talking about building a program, which is just crap. MCSL is just for fun. Anyone trying to make it more is just crap. We've been losing for years. By August, no one cares. We all come back next year for the fun.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)

This is why we have trouble in MCSL. If anyone is building a program it should be the coaches. That program should still be a healthy balance of being fun and teaching kids to compete. The hyper focus on winning and glory leads to two things:
1) coaches recruiting to bring glory to their team and satisfy their reps who are ambitious
2) reps running their teams via proxy and deploy a win first strategy this way

Both are not what this league about. It’s about neighborhood kids learning life skills while making lifelong friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle and can't wait to leave. Our parents kinda suck they make the rep's life pretty miserable.

Our coaches are mid and not there long enough to build a program. We've consistently dropped divisions. But we still have fun.

Seems like many pool boards attract people who don't have the team's interests at heart - just their own desire for power over others. I considered joining our pool board on several occasions, but each time I decided that my work provided enough egos that I didn't need to fill my free time with more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

We’ve moved around in the top 10 since my kids have been there. D2 was a miserable experience. D5 and 6 seem to be the best of competitive while not being psycho. We’ve had the same coach for decades, and the pool board cares about the swim team. The team reps deal with the day to day, but it’s only 2 years

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle and can't wait to leave. Our parents kinda suck they make the rep's life pretty miserable.

Our coaches are mid and not there long enough to build a program. We've consistently dropped divisions. But we still have fun.

Seems like many pool boards attract people who don't have the team's interests at heart - just their own desire for power over others. I considered joining our pool board on several occasions, but each time I decided that my work provided enough egos that I didn't need to fill my free time with more.

Our board is like this. They think they are perfect. They think they know everything. They are really looking out for themselves and they want a pat on the back. They want to micromanage and vote in every minute detail. It’s exhausting. They need a life. Let’s see how we do this year.

[Anonymous]

Our board is too focused on winning. Allowing swimmers who don’t live in the neighborhood to join, using fake addresses. They are not focused on the team having fun. They are not making it fun for the parents either. They need to create a more social environment for the parents so they want to get involved and want to have fun. They kids are fine. They know how to have fun. It’s the parents that suck.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)

It’s nice the reps are on a term limit. Our past rep was AWFUL and wouldn’t leave. Term limits protect teams from bad leaders and toxic culture issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)

It’s nice the reps are on a term limit. Our past rep was AWFUL and wouldn’t leave. Term limits protect teams from bad leaders and toxic culture issues.

Our reps stay for about 2 year and run. It’s really hard and no one ever gives them credit for all their hard work. I wish parents were nicer and they could stay a little longer. Our parents are pretty awful.

[Anonymous]

I've been on the board since 2016. You are giving board members way too much credit... totally doing it because I want power and my ego. Really? I have zero time in my day to even think like that. I do it to help the community and to give back. You should try it.