Swimmers, do you give your coaches end-of-year gifts?

[Anonymous]

RMSC, our coaches email all the parents asking for a volunteer to collect gifts for them and get them a gift card. Twice a year. Summer swim, a parent organizes it at the end of the season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Club swim you do not give gifts. They are paid employees and it is not a thing.

Summer swim is rec and it is customary to give a gift or throw pooled cash.

Our summer swim coach is paid too…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Club swim you do not give gifts. They are paid employees and it is not a thing.

Summer swim is rec and it is customary to give a gift or throw pooled cash.

Both are paid employees.

Club swim coaches appreciate gifts just like summer swim coaches. Neither makes a lot of money for the time they put in. It is customary to gift end of year gifts. Just because you don’t do it, doesn’t me it isn’t a nice thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RMSC, our coaches email all the parents asking for a volunteer to collect gifts for them and get them a gift card. Twice a year. Summer swim, a parent organizes it at the end of the season.

Is it because RMSC’s fee is half of other clubs’ like NCAP and Machine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RMSC, our coaches email all the parents asking for a volunteer to collect gifts for them and get them a gift card. Twice a year. Summer swim, a parent organizes it at the end of the season.

Rmsc asks parents to organize a gift collection for them? Ballsy

[Anonymous]

We collect and pool donations for a cash gift for summer.

I used to get club coaches end of season gifts but now season never ends, lol. I think I will gift something to coaches when kid ages into the next group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RMSC, our coaches email all the parents asking for a volunteer to collect gifts for them and get them a gift card. Twice a year. Summer swim, a parent organizes it at the end of the season.

Is it because RMSC’s fee is half of other clubs’ like NCAP and Machine?

Why would that matter? I had two kids a club that charged over 5k a year and had parent volunteers organize coach gifts twice a year. Clubs are set up differently in how they are funded. RMSC appears to be publicly funded and charges fees to partially offset the costs.

[Anonymous]

How about headsets where he can talk to the swimmers in real-time at practice? https://watertalkieheadsets.com/

[Anonymous]

RMSC KSAC has almost always had a parent collect and then give a card and cash or GCs to the coaches. Coaches don’t ask for a volunteer, it’s a tradition that has been passed on and someone with older kids in the group typically collects or recruits someone else to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about headsets where he can talk to the swimmers in real-time at practice? https://watertalkieheadsets.com/

I assume you’re looking for a gift for the coach, not one a coach could merely use. Our team uses them and the swimmers paid for their own. This is like giving school supplies to a teacher as an end of year thank you gift. People want gifts for themselves.