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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids in that age group are generally notorious for just wanting to be first in the lane regardless of their ability. We are with a big club and the coaches picked the lanes each kid was assigned to, but ordering within the lanes was left to the kids. My kid aged up to a new group this year and one of the first things they noticed was how nice it was that the lanes weren’t as chaotic because the kids were better at determining their lane order and there wasn’t an obnoxious slower kid trying to lead a lane despite not being fast enough. I think the coaches purposely wanted the kids to be able to work it out amongst themselves but that is a lot to ask of the 10 and under set. [/quote]

Ugh, coaches need to be on top of this! At one point my DD was in a situation where the kids in the lane kept asking her to lead workouts. She wasn’t the slower kid but regardless of the pace, other kids wanted to be the one passing someone. Then they would run out of steam before the flags and stop in their tracks right in front of her. Coaches seemed unable to fix the behavior which baffles me- we learned it from day 1 in 8 & unders when I was a kid.

One day in the distant future I hope all of those kids stay with swimming and get totally humbled when someone reads them the riot act for not being able to hold a pace or making a stupid pass and hitting someone.[/quote]
Our coach started calling out people who were “cheating”, leaving too early, not doing the drill (like kicking when they were supposed to only be pulling), etc. and would penalize those kids and that helped stop some of the things that were happening. She would also occasionally re-order people after a couple sets if it was obvious someone had made themselves the lane leader despite not being able to keep pace. That seemed to happen a lot with older boys (like 10 or 11) insisting that they go first in a lane over girls (typically 9 or 10) who could quite frankly smoke them. [/quote]

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