Paper plate award horror

[Anonymous]

Just finished our teams award ceremony. For the first time ever, BEFORE the awards ceremony started, the coaches went around to kids and passed out a few paper plate awards. No presentation to the group at the awards ceremony at all. No sharing fun stories to the team. They just passed a few to some swimmers. I am so disappointed. All the personal and fun things are being removed from the team.

[Anonymous]

Our banquets used to last well past midnight because of how long it took to read them all out aloud for the DDs. Glad they did away with that.

[Anonymous]

That’s a horror? Dramatic much?

[Anonymous]

We do paper plate awards a different night

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s a horror? Dramatic much?

Yes. Minimize things and invalidate much? Not take accountability much? That’s a huge change, and so sad for the kids. We were done in about 1.5 hours. There was plenty of time for paper plate awards. It’s laziness and a total lack of caring and fun. I’m so sad for the kids that swim team leadership ruins things for kids and doesn’t care.

[Anonymous]

HORROR????

[Anonymous]

Sorry your kid sucked and didn’t get one. Not everyone can be a winner

[Anonymous]

Horror would be a completely inappropriate plate or leaving just one kid out completely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry your kid sucked and didn’t get one. Not everyone can be a winner

Feel better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry your kid sucked and didn’t get one. Not

That’s not the issue. The board decided not to present paper plate awards at the awards ceremony to anyone, with no communication to families or swimmers about this change, which is a huge disappointment to the swimmers. It appears about 20 kids (on a team of over 200!) got handed a paper plate before the ceremony, with no fun story sharing or connection. So sad and disappointing.

[Anonymous]

So it sounds like the board made the decision- talk to them. My guess is that one of the coaches had already started making th before the new guidance came out and decided to still pass them out. Thank that coach!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Horror would be a completely inappropriate plate or leaving just one kid out completely.

That would be better than no paper plate awards.

[Anonymous]

They usually make them for everyone but this year only did a few kids?

[Anonymous]

Did you have a good time at the end of season banquet? Maybe reflect on why your focused on team doing something different with the paper plates. No swim banquet should last more than 2-2.5 hours.

[Anonymous]

We just hang them for all to see and then kids collect them at the end of the night. Two hundred kids on the team it would be a nightmare if we talked about each one.