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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First year swim parent here. We're new so don't know what to expect. Does the head coach mostly handle admin duty and only some hand-on coaching? Do they pay attention (coaching) only to the faster swimmers (of the A meet) while leaving the slower ones (A & B meets) coaching to the teenage assistants? Do they tell the DQed kids of what they did wrong and tried to correct it or at least told the assistants/older kids to help?

[b]Not sure if we expect too much, the DQ help part, or it is normal for a summer swim team[/b].
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I think I have a few more questions, how old is your swimmer?  How long have they been swimming?  And what are they struggling with?

I am a team rep and we try very hard to work on DQs.  But as someone else said, summer is short and tough to fix things. After meets we print out the DQ report and go over it (head coach, asst. coach and myself).  We also take notes during the meets on swimmers that should have been called by S&T and were not.  We try to work on those kiddos too because nothing like a kid getting "legal" times at a B meet because the S&T judge has zero clue what they are doing and then DQing at an A meet.  Or the parents thinking their kid can do something and they cannot.

If a kid is really struggling with something I will reach out to the parent and recommend some private coaching.  Sometimes some one on one makes a huge difference and in 2-3 sessions they have it.

Regardless we try and keep every swimmer in the water over winter in some sort of program so that they can progress and more importantly not forget everything that they learned.[/quote]

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