Freeloading swim team parents suck

[Anonymous]

There's an expression: Don't lay the sidewalk until you see where people walk.

Volunteer positions shouldn't exist if they can't be filled

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's an expression: Don't lay the sidewalk until you see where people walk.

Volunteer positions shouldn't exist if they can't be filled

Lol…how is this relevant???

[Anonymous]

It's over for 2021. Let's kill this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Summary so you can skip all the drama:

Summer Swim Team is:
- Fun, social for kids and parents
- Much more chill than club swimming in MOST cases ( A Division ?)
- Will provide life long memories, place where a nerdy kid can hang out with the “cool” kids
- Pretty cheap for the amount of activities in 6-8 weeks
- Can be exhausting, but it’s rewarding (see above)
- Chance to see if your kids have an interest in year round swimming
- 90 teams in MCSL, 111 teams in NVSL, at least… 25,000 kids
- Every team will do things differently
- Don’t like what’s going on, try to become a team rep and make changes
- Some people take way too serious. So what
- Pre-team, qualify (low bar) and your kids will learn to swim very cheaply
- A meets, often year round kids but not always, typically three swimmers per team/per event, one heat
- B meets, usually anyone who doesn’t swim in the A meets, usually no limit on swimmers/heats (some cross over both ways)
- NON year round swimmers and pre-team WILL get the most attention from coaches on MOST teams
- Coaches get paid, everyone else is a volunteer
- It takes a lot of volunteers to make meets/events happen
- Not every job is essential, BUT usually contributes to the overall experience
- Volunteering can be as simple as emptying a trash can, moving chairs after a meet
- Help if you can, don’t sweat it if you can’t
- Don’t know how to time, volunteer for a B meet, you will learn quick, best view at the pool

Now go to the pool and interact with your kids, another summer is over soon

You completely missed the entire point of this thread.

Just no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's an expression: Don't lay the sidewalk until you see where people walk.

Volunteer positions shouldn't exist if they can't be filled

Lol…how is this relevant???

My goodness you are dense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's an expression: Don't lay the sidewalk until you see where people walk.

Volunteer positions shouldn't exist if they can't be filled

Lol…how is this relevant???

My goodness you are dense.

No, she isn’t dense. If no stroke and turn judges or starters or timers volunteer, no meet. NVSL rules. Someone IS dense. Must be the volunteer holdout…

[Anonymous]

As a Team Rep of a fairly large NVSL team, finding volunteers sucks! Its worse for B Meets where everyone has an excuse as to why they can't volunteer. And no, its not because the jobs have been taken. People want all the benefits of the team without the work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Team Rep of a fairly large NVSL team, finding volunteers sucks! Its worse for B Meets where everyone has an excuse as to why they can't volunteer. And no, its not because the jobs have been taken. People want all the benefits of the team without the work.

This is so true except it’s not all people but the same ones over and over. We have a family on our team and they have volunteered zero times in six years. Zero. When asked, there is always an excuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's an expression: Don't lay the sidewalk until you see where people walk.

Volunteer positions shouldn't exist if they can't be filled

Lol…how is this relevant???

My goodness you are dense.

No, she isn’t dense. If no stroke and turn judges or starters or timers volunteer, no meet. NVSL rules. Someone IS dense. Must be the volunteer holdout…

No, she's dense -- point obviously is to remove those positions that aren't necessary for which people sign up so they are left with the ones that are necesssary for which to volunteer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's an expression: Don't lay the sidewalk until you see where people walk.

Volunteer positions shouldn't exist if they can't be filled

Lol…how is this relevant???

My goodness you are dense.

No, she isn’t dense. If no stroke and turn judges or starters or timers volunteer, no meet. NVSL rules. Someone IS dense. Must be the volunteer holdout…

No, she's dense -- point obviously is to remove those positions that aren't necessary for which people sign up so they are left with the ones that are necesssary for which to volunteer.

This thread implies that is second and third timers (so no official times) and concessions (no fund raising and pissed off families)

[Anonymous]

So I had a swim team mom invite my daughter to come join the team next year but sounds like I don't think I'm going to participate based on this crazy thread.

I think the league should restructure if the events are so dependent on a whole army of 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.

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

Is there a way to rethink some of these events so that they don't require so many adult participants?

[Anonymous]

Become a team rep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I had a swim team mom invite my daughter to come join the team next year but sounds like I don't think I'm going to participate based on this crazy thread.

I think the league should restructure if the events are so dependent on a whole army of volunteers.

Decision making based on DCUM drama seekers, great plan. Let her join, help a little, she will have fun, you might as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I had a swim team mom invite my daughter to come join the team next year but sounds like I don't think I'm going to participate based on this crazy thread.

I think the league should restructure if the events are so dependent on a whole army of volunteers.

Decision making based on DCUM drama seekers, great plan. Let her join, help a little, she will have fun, you might as well.

talk to existing parents. Not all pools are this crazy. Sure they have tons of volunteers, but not every pool has troubling filling the slots or resorts to threats to get volunteers