Practice Times

[Anonymous]

Why can’t coaches end their practices at the scheduled time! Baseball is the worst at this. I’m sitting in the parking lot waiting for my son to be done with practice. It was supposed to be over 35 minutes ago after a 2.5 hour time slot.

I should have had 1.25 hours between him being done and needing to take my daughter to her practice, so plenty of time to take him home and get her. Now, we’re pushing it and if it goes much longer I’m going to have to pull him.

Coaches demand the kids be on time and should respect the parents’ time as well.

[Anonymous]

Peek a boo

[Anonymous]

My kids are younger so maybe this is naive, but I’d give a 15 min grace period and then go over and say, with apologies, we need to leave now. That’s crazy. This is happening regularly??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are younger so maybe this is naive, but I’d give a 15 min grace period and then go over and say, with apologies, we need to leave now. That’s crazy. This is happening regularly??

+1

I felt comfortable doing that until my kids were 11-12ish.

Usually with baseball, it isn’t that bad because the field is usually reserved by another team after. IME. Or if a later evening practice, the lights turn off at a certain time.

[Anonymous]

I’ve found it to be certain teams and coaches, not the particular sports. Honestly, now that my kids are older, I don’t have as much patience as I used to for it. 10-15 minutes can be understandable on occasion but there is no reason to go 20. This season practice seems to end on the minute since the court is reserved after. I love it.

Last season we had a coach who went over all of the time. It got old fast and it’s rude to players and parents. Players can leave when they need to.

[Anonymous]

Must be a baseball thing.
My kid does basketball for OBGC and her school. Both end on time because of reserved space in the gym.
Same when she did swim, reserved lanes for an hour for level/age group
Soccer, might run over 5 mins but that’s it.

[Anonymous]

OP here - he’s a freshman on their small school’s varsity team, so saying something to the coach would be incredibly awkward for him. I’m not sure what I’m going to do next time, but it’s happened twice already.

IME, baseball has always been the worst. Even in LL, the coach would hold them after at the batting cages or for long drawn out discussions. His and my other kids’ main sport is hockey, so I’m used to practices beginning and ending promptly. Otherwise, the Zamboni will kick them off the ice. If they took forever in the locker room, it was on the kid, not the coach.

[Anonymous]

If it’s not his main sport, go talk to the coach and then pull him. He may be the only freshman on the varsity team with a parent waiting to pick him up and get on with other things. Otherwise, fume in your car the rest of the season.

[Anonymous]

Our baseball coach does this too. All of DS’s practices (indoor and outdoor) run long. This wasn’t a thing when he played basketball because there was always another group coming into the gym and never had this with his sister who plays field hockey and ice hockey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - he’s a freshman on their small school’s varsity team, so saying something to the coach would be incredibly awkward for him. I’m not sure what I’m going to do next time, but it’s happened twice already.

IME, baseball has always been the worst. Even in LL, the coach would hold them after at the batting cages or for long drawn out discussions. His and my other kids’ main sport is hockey, so I’m used to practices beginning and ending promptly. Otherwise, the Zamboni will kick them off the ice. If they took forever in the locker room, it was on the kid, not the coach.

High school sports there are no rules. The end time is when the coach wants to end. The end time posted is a guideline not the rule.

And it would definitely not be in your kids best interest to do anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - he’s a freshman on their small school’s varsity team, so saying something to the coach would be incredibly awkward for him. I’m not sure what I’m going to do next time, but it’s happened twice already.

IME, baseball has always been the worst. Even in LL, the coach would hold them after at the batting cages or for long drawn out discussions. His and my other kids’ main sport is hockey, so I’m used to practices beginning and ending promptly. Otherwise, the Zamboni will kick them off the ice. If they took forever in the locker room, it was on the kid, not the coach.

Tell the coach that every minute that your son stays extra is a minute that your other kid is late for his sport. If you put it that way, the the coach might understand why you need to pick him up on time.

[Anonymous]

Baseball is the worst for this because there are too many baseball fields. There is rarely another group waiting for the field. Soccer, basketball, VB, lax, etc you gotta get out of the way of the next group.

[Anonymous]

Ah yes. The baseball “Coach Talk” can be anywhere from 10-20 mins. Even if the field is used by another team, the coaches just take the kids next to the dugout while they yammer on and on.

Another time we were trying to grab our DD from gymnastics practice to go somewhere else and we were already going to be late. Practice, which usually ends on time, was 30 mins over and we could just see the coach was just talking. The girls were all standing around bored. The parents kept nominating each other to go pull the kids out but honestly we all are scared of the Russian coach. So we just sat around going wtf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - he’s a freshman on their small school’s varsity team, so saying something to the coach would be incredibly awkward for him. I’m not sure what I’m going to do next time, but it’s happened twice already.

IME, baseball has always been the worst. Even in LL, the coach would hold them after at the batting cages or for long drawn out discussions. His and my other kids’ main sport is hockey, so I’m used to practices beginning and ending promptly. Otherwise, the Zamboni will kick them off the ice. If they took forever in the locker room, it was on the kid, not the coach.

Tell the coach that every minute that your son stays extra is a minute that your other kid is late for his sport. If you put it that way, the the coach might understand why you need to pick him up on time.

I like that phrasing. What I’m doing is if my other kids have a something beginning or ending within 30 minutes of his, I take/get them first. If he happens to be done, then he can wait. So far, it hasn’t happened. I even left his field 15 minutes after his practice should have been over to pick up my youngest at her practice. Returned about 20 minutes later and he was just finishing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes. The baseball “Coach Talk” can be anywhere from 10-20 mins. Even if the field is used by another team, the coaches just take the kids next to the dugout while they yammer on and on.

Another time we were trying to grab our DD from gymnastics practice to go somewhere else and we were already going to be late. Practice, which usually ends on time, was 30 mins over and we could just see the coach was just talking. The girls were all standing around bored. The parents kept nominating each other to go pull the kids out but honestly we all are scared of the Russian coach. So we just sat around going wtf.

We would always nominate the best kid’s parent. Any good coach knows you lose elementary school kids in 5 minutes of talking. Keep it short.