Freeloading swim team parents suck

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aw man 15 hours of volunteering would be so sweet. We have to do five events. Our B meets are 6+ hours each!

There is no way a B meet runs over 6 hours.

Hmmm. The last one we were at, the kids had to be there at 5:20 for warmups, meet started at 6. Lasted well past 10:30. Two large swim teams. And I heard about a meet between two other big teams that had to end at 10:30 and they swam IM first and had only reached breast-stroke. All the older breaststroke kids and butterfly kids just had to go home.

Ok so you are including warm-up time. A meeting that goes 6-10:30 is 4.5 hours I don't count the time before the meet starts.

But the volunteer shifts start earlier than the meet. Concessions and Marshall starts at 5. Timers have to be there by 5:30

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aw man 15 hours of volunteering would be so sweet. We have to do five events. Our B meets are 6+ hours each!

There is no way a B meet runs over 6 hours.

Hmmm. The last one we were at, the kids had to be there at 5:20 for warmups, meet started at 6. Lasted well past 10:30. Two large swim teams. And I heard about a meet between two other big teams that had to end at 10:30 and they swam IM first and had only reached breast-stroke. All the older breaststroke kids and butterfly kids just had to go home.

Ok so you are including warm-up time. A meeting that goes 6-10:30 is 4.5 hours I don't count the time before the meet starts.

That is time they have to be there. It counts.

the only ones there for the entirety of a B meet are the ones swimming IMs. If you don't want to be there that long, don't have your kids swim IMs. The little just swimming free and back are out relatively quickly. My kids love the meets that go that late because they get to swim around with their friends during taredown and cleanup

Well, the point was that the volunteers have to stay for the whole meet, not how soon your kids are done if they are 5 and only swim free/back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank God my kids don't do swim team.

haha Every sport has it's quirks.

I found little league baseball to be just as annoying. On top of the games that were also long (like swim meets), they wanted 3 - 4 hour hour concession stands. No thanks to standing in the hot small stand frying and grilling with a mask on. I happily gave them my volunteer fee and didn't want to earn it back. Our team had 4 dads coaching and that's a lot of work too for them to do game, practices, batting cages, and field prep and clean up.

Concession stands need to stop. Families are fat as it is. They don't need to eat at little league games!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aw man 15 hours of volunteering would be so sweet. We have to do five events. Our B meets are 6+ hours each!

There is no way a B meet runs over 6 hours.

Hmmm. The last one we were at, the kids had to be there at 5:20 for warmups, meet started at 6. Lasted well past 10:30. Two large swim teams. And I heard about a meet between two other big teams that had to end at 10:30 and they swam IM first and had only reached breast-stroke. All the older breaststroke kids and butterfly kids just had to go home.

Ok so you are including warm-up time. A meeting that goes 6-10:30 is 4.5 hours I don't count the time before the meet starts.

That is time they have to be there. It counts.

the only ones there for the entirety of a B meet are the ones swimming IMs. If you don't want to be there that long, don't have your kids swim IMs. The little just swimming free and back are out relatively quickly. My kids love the meets that go that late because they get to swim around with their friends during taredown and cleanup

Well, the point was that the volunteers have to stay for the whole meet, not how soon your kids are done if they are 5 and only swim free/back.

talk to your team reps- that doesn't seem right. We switch everyone but the referee and announcer between back and breast. Those two would stay regardless, so it's no big deal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank God my kids don't do swim team.

haha Every sport has it's quirks.

I found little league baseball to be just as annoying. On top of the games that were also long (like swim meets), they wanted 3 - 4 hour hour concession stands. No thanks to standing in the hot small stand frying and grilling with a mask on. I happily gave them my volunteer fee and didn't want to earn it back. Our team had 4 dads coaching and that's a lot of work too for them to do game, practices, batting cages, and field prep and clean up.

Concession stands need to stop. Families are fat as it is. They don't need to eat at little league games!

go to a division 1, 2, 3 meet and look at the A meet swimmers. Fat is not a word I would use, and that usually goes for the families too

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aw man 15 hours of volunteering would be so sweet. We have to do five events. Our B meets are 6+ hours each!

There is no way a B meet runs over 6 hours.

Hmmm. The last one we were at, the kids had to be there at 5:20 for warmups, meet started at 6. Lasted well past 10:30. Two large swim teams. And I heard about a meet between two other big teams that had to end at 10:30 and they swam IM first and had only reached breast-stroke. All the older breaststroke kids and butterfly kids just had to go home.

Ok so you are including warm-up time. A meeting that goes 6-10:30 is 4.5 hours I don't count the time before the meet starts.

But the volunteer shifts start earlier than the meet. Concessions and Marshall starts at 5. Timers have to be there by 5:30

Which is why they break them into shifts for B Meets.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know the inner workings of this - but do have kids that play baseball & swim. I’m now guessing we have concession stands not as a courtesy to spectators but because it’s actually a money maker.

At any rate - both of those teams for us allow you to pay in lieu of volunteering & I think that’s a fair policy.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get the concessions hate, at least for B meets. In our league/division kids and volunteers need to be there by 5, and the meets usually run past 8 when they start at 6. Dinner concessions are a necessity, not “bloat.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the concessions hate, at least for B meets. In our league/division kids and volunteers need to be there by 5, and the meets usually run past 8 when they start at 6. Dinner concessions are a necessity, not “bloat.”

I can only speak for myself. My kids play another sport with concessions and one wanted to join swim team next year so o was reading all of this. I didn’t want to work fast food jobs in HS and I certainly don’t want to know. Concessions sell junk and that’s fine, but they don’t need it every single game and I don’t want to volunteer my time to keep it going. It’s not hard to get food around here, especially with uber eats. I pay the volunteer fee to get out of it and then tell them I didn’t bring cash when they want the candy, chips and sugary drinks all through every game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the concessions hate, at least for B meets. In our league/division kids and volunteers need to be there by 5, and the meets usually run past 8 when they start at 6. Dinner concessions are a necessity, not “bloat.”

I can only speak for myself. My kids play another sport with concessions and one wanted to join swim team next year so o was reading all of this. I didn’t want to work fast food jobs in HS and I certainly don’t want to know. Concessions sell junk and that’s fine, but they don’t need it every single game and I don’t want to volunteer my time to keep it going. It’s not hard to get food around here, especially with uber eats. I pay the volunteer fee to get out of it and then tell them I didn’t bring cash when they want the candy, chips and sugary drinks all through every game.

I am so thankful parents don't need to volunteer for concession at our meets. Those are run by the people who normally staff the snack bar.

I do appreciate that they sell real food as we are often rushing from work to swim meets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the concessions hate, at least for B meets. In our league/division kids and volunteers need to be there by 5, and the meets usually run past 8 when they start at 6. Dinner concessions are a necessity, not “bloat.”

I can only speak for myself. My kids play another sport with concessions and one wanted to join swim team next year so o was reading all of this. I didn’t want to work fast food jobs in HS and I certainly don’t want to know. Concessions sell junk and that’s fine, but they don’t need it every single game and I don’t want to volunteer my time to keep it going. It’s not hard to get food around here, especially with uber eats. I pay the volunteer fee to get out of it and then tell them I didn’t bring cash when they want the candy, chips and sugary drinks all through every game.

The concessions at the meets I’ve been to this season include hamburgers, big salads, hummus and pita, chicken wraps, water, etc. Reasonable dinner choices at an all evening sporting event.

[Anonymous]

I don't love volunteering for concessions so I just find other things to do. I'm an early riser so I typically do set up for home A meets. That job has a set end to it and I get to see my kids swim. My H likes to do clean up because then the kids just stay and swim when the pool opens.

We definitely financially support the concessions though. I am pretty sure my kids swim for the the sugar. They are young enough to think it is special to take their own money and pick out a treat they wouldn't normally have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank God my kids don't do swim team.

haha Every sport has it's quirks.

I found little league baseball to be just as annoying. On top of the games that were also long (like swim meets), they wanted 3 - 4 hour hour concession stands. No thanks to standing in the hot small stand frying and grilling with a mask on. I happily gave them my volunteer fee and didn't want to earn it back. Our team had 4 dads coaching and that's a lot of work too for them to do game, practices, batting cages, and field prep and clean up.

Concession stands need to stop. Families are fat as it is. They don't need to eat at little league games!

Or, pay for whomever normally runs concessions to work concessions during the swim meet. Swim teams are actually taking money away from concession workers by commandeering the snack bar for several hours--they are taking work hours away from teenagers.

[Anonymous]

Saddest thread ever.

[Anonymous]

Many pools don’t have concessions. Only for swim meets.