Freeloading swim team parents suck

[Anonymous]

Fixed OP's original post:

When the team says prior to registration that volunteering is mandatory to make swim team work, they don’t mean everyone but YOU. They mean YOU B MEET PARENTS ARE NEEDED SO MY A MEET KID CAN SWIM EXHIBITIONS.

You suck, B meet parents, and I judge you. Don’t give excuses, no one forced you to register your slow-ass kid who will never win a ribbon.

That’s all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is the rule in our developmental league...if you swam it on Saturday, you can't swim it on Monday. And if you placed 1st or 2nd in one or both events on Saturday, you can only swim one additional event on Monday, not two, and it's unofficial (your time counts for the ladder but you cannot place).

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

Up until recently, we were a D3 pool. Our B meets never last past 9PM. Usually, we're done between 8:30 and 8:45.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is the rule in our developmental league...if you swam it on Saturday, you can't swim it on Monday. And if you placed 1st or 2nd in one or both events on Saturday, you can only swim one additional event on Monday, not two, and it's unofficial (your time counts for the ladder but you cannot place).

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

Up until recently, we were a D3 pool. Our B meets never last past 9PM. Usually, we're done between 8:30 and 8:45.

The meets ending before 9pm are the exception.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That's usually the rule with bigger teams. Our team you can swim at both.

[Anonymous]

Huh.
We planned to sign our kid up for swim team at the country club next year. I assumed they had staff for these things.
I certainly hope they don’t expect this of parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is our rule.
Div 14 team

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh.
We planned to sign our kid up for swim team at the country club next year. I assumed they had staff for these things.
I certainly hope they don’t expect this of parents.

Staff to do do all of the duties parents typically fulfill as volunteers? I highly doubt it. That would be a lot of staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh.
We planned to sign our kid up for swim team at the country club next year. I assumed they had staff for these things.
I certainly hope they don’t expect this of parents.

Staff to do do all of the duties parents typically fulfill as volunteers? I highly doubt it. That would be a lot of staff.

Well I can’t imagine the club having a concession stand… so that’s one thing off the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh.
We planned to sign our kid up for swim team at the country club next year. I assumed they had staff for these things.
I certainly hope they don’t expect this of parents.

You will be in for a rude awakening.

[Anonymous]

You can pay a fee is a win win

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can pay a fee is a win win

Not all clubs. Ours says volunteers required but no one really keeps track.

Some of your pools really suck. We don’t have a huge problem with this. Yes, we may need to ask twice for more second half timers but it’s never been a huge issue getting volunteers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh.
We planned to sign our kid up for swim team at the country club next year. I assumed they had staff for these things.
I certainly hope they don’t expect this of parents.

You will be in for a rude awakening.

There are far fewer volunteers needed at country club meets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh.
We planned to sign our kid up for swim team at the country club next year. I assumed they had staff for these things.
I certainly hope they don’t expect this of parents.

You will be in for a rude awakening.

Or they will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh.
We planned to sign our kid up for swim team at the country club next year. I assumed they had staff for these things.
I certainly hope they don’t expect this of parents.

You will be in for a rude awakening.

There are far fewer volunteers needed at country club meets.

Fewer swimmers, too. Catering instead of concessions. But you still need volunteers. The club won't hire staff to time lanes, for example. They will hire officials, but officials also expect to have judges to help them, which are volunteers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh.
We planned to sign our kid up for swim team at the country club next year. I assumed they had staff for these things.
I certainly hope they don’t expect this of parents.

Staff to do do all of the duties parents typically fulfill as volunteers? I highly doubt it. That would be a lot of staff.

Well I can’t imagine the club having a concession stand… so that’s one thing off the list.

Country club concession stands are staffed by country club employee(s).