Fun things to do for club swimming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our team has had a couple of bowling outings which have been successful!

Us too. Bowling was fun for the kids. Toss in a buffet of junk food and unlimited soda, along with video game tokens, you have a recipe for a good time.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know if this would be feasible nowadays, but one of the most fun things I remember my winter club doing was the overnight lock in thing someone else suggested. I can’t remember if I actually stayed the night — that might have only been for the older kids. But I remember being in the pool at like 9 or 10 pm and thinking that was so cool and fun. It was like a big pool party with food/drinks in another room nearby.

I don’t agree that fun events aren’t part of winter swim. They absolutely were when I was a kid and I think it’s one of the reasons I stuck with swimming. The coaches understood it should be fun for 12 and unders. Then when it starts to feel like work, you are hooked and keep with it because you love the sport. We are losing sight of this in youth sports. If you are talented you will rise to the top once you really start putting in the work. Too many 10 year olds whose parents treat the sport like it’s the kid’s job. I blame social media clout chasing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
🙄 Posters here greatly overestimate the uniqueness of summer swim. Generally those posters have summer only swimmers and feel the need to sh!t on winter club swim to feel better about the fact that their kid only wants to swim summer league. Even the big clubs that people denigrate as cold and impersonal have social events for each of their practice groups.

This is weirdly hostile. My kids do both. Summer is definitely filled with more fun. We swim RMSC and our practice groups has never had a social outing. Not bashing it at all, but it's just not part of that experience. We have practice, and meets. Period. We're certainly not playing laser tag and going to the punkin patch with RMSC.

We had several social outings at RMSC.

[Anonymous]

York does a Halloween costume party, a bowling outing, a retreat for 13 and overs, and probably some other things I’m not aware of as a parent of 10 and unders.