Swim Team Board

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)

It’s nice the reps are on a term limit. Our past rep was AWFUL and wouldn’t leave. Term limits protect teams from bad leaders and toxic culture issues.

Is it not an elected post?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)

It’s nice the reps are on a term limit. Our past rep was AWFUL and wouldn’t leave. Term limits protect teams from bad leaders and toxic culture issues.

Is it not an elected post?

No. There are alot of good discussions on this post. It would be helpful if the summer leagues had some type of description of the duties and role of the team rep and placed term limits for this position.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool board helps the team set their budget, hires the head coach and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board.

This would be a disaster at our pool. The team rep hires and manages the coaches. A board would not.

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work

Your reps are out after two years? I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years. The current one is on year three. The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)

It’s nice the reps are on a term limit. Our past rep was AWFUL and wouldn’t leave. Term limits protect teams from bad leaders and toxic culture issues.

Is it not an elected post?

No. There are alot of good discussions on this post. It would be helpful if the summer leagues had some type of description of the duties and role of the team rep and placed term limits for this position.

I don’t see a league setting requirements. It would have to be up to each club. Our by-laws have the swim team rep as an elected position that serves on the board of the club.

[Anonymous]

Our A Reps steps up. No one is elected. It’s hard finding a rep. Most of ours leave after 2 years. No one want to do anymore than that.

Parent expectations are too high and they don’t volunteer to help. The job of the A Rep is hard.