NVSL summer practice times

[Anonymous]

My kid would love to work at 13 and now 14 but no where hires that young anymore.

[Anonymous]

yes- many people feel strongly that the schedule is somehow 'anti' some group- but really nothing can please everyone. Change is hard, most pools stick with what has worked for them for a long time.
While people who are going to camp might like 7am practice, for any kid who doesn't otherwise need to be up, that's a miserable practice time. No mom of 8-10 year olds wants to get their kids up that early, and then bring them home and be waiting for the pool etc. to open at 11am. Lots of kids going to camp don't really want to go at 7 either......

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid would love to work at 13 and now 14 but no where hires that young anymore.

My 14 year old will teach swim lessons this summer at the local rec center. They also hire 14 year olds to be camp counselors and mountain biking assistants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What NVSL summer team is running mandatory DOUBLES

We run are youngest kids last. Most of our teens are coaches so they practice and then life guard or coach and the little kids can stay and play after their practice

Honey, that was a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:Ours has a 7am all-ages practice (which we use for the weeks our kids are in camp) and then they have age group practices over the next 2-3 hours after that. Sometimes "fun" stuff after the age-group practice. Optional clinics in the afternoons a couple of days a week depending on age group.

It's definitely do-able (if a bit of a scramble) for families with kids in camp / 2 working parents, but optimized for those with more flexibility. We try to split the difference with about half of the weeks in camp and half where we make the later morning practices work.

Our coaches/leadership want it to be fun so there's not any notable attendance pressure (but it's a great experience and kids are drawn to be there).

This is brilliant. Which pool?

Ours is 8:15-9:15 for 9-12; 9:15-10 8u and mini; 13+ 10-11:00. Tough for working parents and teens who have summer jobs or take summer classes.

After years of the older kids having the first practice, a younger parent put out a biased survey to move the practice times - eg there was no where on the survey to indicate older kid time preferences. Now older kids have last practice.

We ended up leaving for another pool with better practice times. Pool doesn’t have any 15-18s anymore.

Really? Our older kids like having the last practice. The hated getting up early. They are generally the group that doesn't need their parents to get them to practice so they prefer sleeping and showing up to the pool.

Little kids need parents to drive them and get them to camps. So logically it makes more sense.

Agree! This is what our pool went to several years ago so that working parents could drop younger kids at practice at 8 and leave for work. Most of those kids have camp buses that pick up directly at the pool after practice. The older kids aren’t a worry for the working parents. Plus this allows older kids with early morning club practice to join in on their “fun” summer swim practice later in the morning.