Pre swim team useless?

[Anonymous]

Our pre-team is for kids who can swim about 1/4 of the way across the pool - no strokes necessary - just anyway they can make it across without touching the bottom. For regular swim team, they need to be able to swim the length of the pool.

[Anonymous]

OP, where are the adults who are supervising preswim team? You can't mean that only 13 year olds are supervising all those beginner swimmers??

[Anonymous]

the middle schoolers are usually volunteers, but you really should have a paid coach present. They need the volunteers to provide help because it is just too many non swimmers for a single coach to handle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our pool has about 4-5 kids per instructor. It's about what you'd expect from swim lessons through the rec centers plus they can swim in some meets and they have a lot of fun team building activities for the kids. Parents seem happy with the program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool has about 4-5 kids per instructor. It's about what you'd expect from swim lessons through the rec centers plus they can swim in some meets and they have a lot of fun team building activities for the kids. Parents seem happy with the program.

OP again. Rec center lessons are much better.

[Anonymous]

I think it's just your pool. Our child has improved tremendously and has gotten to participate in a couple of intrasquad B meets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's just your pool. Our child has improved tremendously and has gotten to participate in a couple of intrasquad B meets.

OP here. Yes, I agree. Seems we got a bit of a lemon.