Freeloading swim team parents suck

[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.

B Meet warmups typically start around 5:00 and can run until 9pm. The length, timing, and the fact there are typically 100+ athletes plus family members makes the availability of food helpful. Most pools offer chick fil a, pizza, or grilled food, in addition to the typical candy and junk food.

Swim teams don’t want parents paying the opt out fee- they need volunteers.

[Anonymous]

Our team relies on concessions as revenue because our pools don't have snack bars. We need concessions. I do agree they sell crap though.

[Anonymous]

Am I weird for actually liking to work at the meets?! I am lucky that my job is very flexible/part time in the summer, so my biggest challenge is having someone to watch my younger child if I’m working the meet and my husband has to work late or is out of town. Our volunteer requirement is quite high so it can be stressful to make sure you get all your credits done. But I like the actual jobs once I’m there. I would so much rather be doing something than sitting around waiting hours for my child to swim for 30 seconds at a time. My favorite is clerk of course. It keeps you busy and you can take a quick break to watch your kids swim when it’s their turn. And it’s a nice feeling when the meets runs fast/smoothly because you know you played a role in getting everyone out of there earlier. I can see how it would be annoying to work a meet you kid isn’t even at though. I’m lucky my kid has made all the A meets and that our A meet kids are allowed to swim their off events in B meets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

B Meet warmups typically start around 5:00 and can run until 9pm. The length, timing, and the fact there are typically 100+ athletes plus family members makes the availability of food helpful. Most pools offer chick fil a, pizza, or grilled food, in addition to the typical candy and junk food.

Swim teams don’t want parents paying the opt out fee- they need volunteers.

I have never, ever attended a B meet that ended at 9:00. They always run later than that! NVSL D3 pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

B Meet warmups typically start around 5:00 and can run until 9pm. The length, timing, and the fact there are typically 100+ athletes plus family members makes the availability of food helpful. Most pools offer chick fil a, pizza, or grilled food, in addition to the typical candy and junk food.

Swim teams don’t want parents paying the opt out fee- they need volunteers.

I have never, ever attended a B meet that ended at 9:00. They always run later than that! NVSL D3 pool.

In our MCSL B division, there is one huge team we swim against that would go past 9:00 but their HOA rules (noise?) prevents it going later than that. They just cut that meet off and limit exhibition swimmers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When the team says prior to registration that volunteering is mandatory to make swim team work, they don’t mean everyone but YOU.

You suck and I judge you. Don’t give excuses, no one forced you to register your kid.

That’s all.

OP, you suck. That is all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When the team says prior to registration that volunteering is mandatory to make swim team work, they don’t mean everyone but YOU.

You suck and I judge you. Don’t give excuses, no one forced you to register your kid.

That’s all.

OP, you suck. That is all.

Curious why you think ignoring volunteer requirements and allowing other people to add your burden to theirs is ok.

-np

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

B Meet warmups typically start around 5:00 and can run until 9pm. The length, timing, and the fact there are typically 100+ athletes plus family members makes the availability of food helpful. Most pools offer chick fil a, pizza, or grilled food, in addition to the typical candy and junk food.

Swim teams don’t want parents paying the opt out fee- they need volunteers.

I have never, ever attended a B meet that ended at 9:00. They always run later than that! NVSL D3 pool.

In our MCSL B division, there is one huge team we swim against that would go past 9:00 but their HOA rules (noise?) prevents it going later than that. They just cut that meet off and limit exhibition swimmers.

There are definitely at least a handful of MCSL pools that have hard stops at 9:00p due to noise. North Chevy Chase is one that comes to mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When the team says prior to registration that volunteering is mandatory to make swim team work, they don’t mean everyone but YOU.

You suck and I judge you. Don’t give excuses, no one forced you to register your kid.

That’s all.

OP, you suck. That is all.

Curious why you think ignoring volunteer requirements and allowing other people to add your burden to theirs is ok.

-np

Curious why your ability to read is so poor. It says "you suck" not "allowing other people to add your burden to theirs is ok."

[Anonymous]

We have a huge pool and honestly, I hate the exhibition swims at the B meets. Those kids already swam that stroke once that same week. They add SO much time to the meet. We have heats and heats and heats of exhibitions, it is ridiculous. One time per stroke per week is fair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a huge pool and honestly, I hate the exhibition swims at the B meets. Those kids already swam that stroke once that same week. They add SO much time to the meet. We have heats and heats and heats of exhibitions, it is ridiculous. One time per stroke per week is fair.

I agree but the "A" meet parents run everything and would never get rid of something that benefits their kids. I suggested once just that all the exhibition swims happen after IM so they wouldn't make the B meets even longer for the B meet only kids and you would have thought I suggested cannibalism. Two big pools having a B meet can be dozens of heats of exhibition swims.

[Anonymous]

Exhibition swims?! So is that the A meet swimmers competing against each other at the B meets? That seems crazy. B meets are long enough, I am in full support of not allowing kids to do strokes in the B meets that they did in the previous weekend’s A meets, and I have a kid who swims A and B meets.

[Anonymous]

For our team, it’s the A meet kids who placed ??? Or maybe just swam?? that stroke in the last A meet. Trying to get a better time. They are a huge time suck at the B meets.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I’ve never heard of exhibition swims. In our NVSL div 2 pool, B meets are only the 2 strokes a swimmer didn’t get to swim at A meets (or if they didn’t qualify for A meets). I’d be super annoyed by these show-off swims! They already got to swim at A meets!

That said, I enjoy being a timer. Forces me to be in the moment. But yeah, get rid of exhibition swims. There are more B swimmers than A swimmers…get on the board and make it happen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For our team, it’s the A meet kids who placed ??? Or maybe just swam?? that stroke in the last A meet. Trying to get a better time. They are a huge time suck at the B meets.

Our team’s rule is if you are one of the top 2 times on the team for that stroke in your age group then you can’t swim it at the B meet, but I would be fine with saying if you swam it at the A meet the previous weekend you don’t get to swim it at the B meet.