NVSL Team Rep Question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our reps do not attend practice. Not usually. They attend meets and other events. They work on the seeding with the coaches and reach out to parents about meets. They handle the complaints. So many complaints. They arrange the practice times and who is in what lane.

They work with the Board and all of the volunteers. They do all the division meetings, etc.

I don’t understand why they would be involved in seeding (which is straight forward by data) or lane assignments, those are coaching duties.

Lots of emails… info about meets, reminders about that info, and complaints. Emails with coaches about some of these details and complaints. I suggest dedicating one email address to this and setting a time to deal with them each day so you are not constantly getting sucked into it. Maybe allow one coach to text if something is truly time-sensitive.

Our lead rep is on the board which is helpful for communicating pool/team issues.

Seeding is more than times, you have to know what the other teams times are and where they will put their talent. They gauges where you put your own (or not) to take points. They is where a good coach can make a difference on a team. I often see good teams lose points/meets because of their seeding. They have a really fast kid in one stroke and that kid is fast in two others. They consisitently choose to put the kid in the really fast stroke but if they had put that kid in just the two fast strokes that same kid would have picked more points for the team (might not be the kid's favorite stroke). Seeding is more big picture. Teams lose all the time by only thinking of a kids fast time. Oftentimes, you throw your legal but slower kids in breast and fly and you can pick up more points - even if they are your fast free kid. Becaues everyone has a fast free kid.

Our reps call/text parents if kids that don't usually swim when they are seeding to confirm availibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our reps do not attend practice. Not usually. They attend meets and other events. They work on the seeding with the coaches and reach out to parents about meets. They handle the complaints. So many complaints. They arrange the practice times and who is in what lane.

They work with the Board and all of the volunteers. They do all the division meetings, etc.

I don’t understand why they would be involved in seeding (which is straight forward by data) or lane assignments, those are coaching duties.

Lots of emails… info about meets, reminders about that info, and complaints. Emails with coaches about some of these details and complaints. I suggest dedicating one email address to this and setting a time to deal with them each day so you are not constantly getting sucked into it. Maybe allow one coach to text if something is truly time-sensitive.

Our lead rep is on the board which is helpful for communicating pool/team issues.

Seeding is more than times, you have to know what the other teams times are and where they will put their talent. They gauges where you put your own (or not) to take points. They is where a good coach can make a difference on a team. I often see good teams lose points/meets because of their seeding. They have a really fast kid in one stroke and that kid is fast in two others. They consisitently choose to put the kid in the really fast stroke but if they had put that kid in just the two fast strokes that same kid would have picked more points for the team (might not be the kid's favorite stroke). Seeding is more big picture. Teams lose all the time by only thinking of a kids fast time. Oftentimes, you throw your legal but slower kids in breast and fly and you can pick up more points - even if they are your fast free kid. Becaues everyone has a fast free kid.

Our reps call/text parents if kids that don't usually swim when they are seeding to confirm availibility.

Ok, I oversimplified, but this falls 100% on coaches on our team.

We have an online way to declare availability, but yes, follow up on this would be another potential rep duty. I think our rep sets it up and the coaches communicate with families to follow up as needed when they put together the weekly roster.