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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not much happens in fall and winter because it is more of an individual sport whereas summer swim is a team sport and with so many parents involved, there is a ton of drama.

In summer swim, there is so much parent involvement, there’s drama everywhere because some parents just suck.

We are still dealing with summer swim drama and it is almost October!  Ugh![/quote]

I'm really intrigued about what summer swim drama lingers into October- do tell.[/quote]

The fall is often when clubs decide to replace some or all of their coaching staff.  That often brings significant drama.

Then there is the general pool board of directors drama - capital improvements, budgets, who's on/off the board, etc...[/quote]

Yup, parents with unreasonable expectations for coaching want the coach fired and want a new coach. We’ve had a new coach every year for the past few years. No coach is good enough. There must be the perfect coach out there for our small team but we don’t have a lot of money. Parents who don’t understand pre team is taught by SSL volunteers. They want a professional swimmer to get in the water and teach the strokes. They want dryland. And why do the kids just swim back and forth all the time.  We want more team activities but no one wants to volunteer. They just want to show up. We have drama into the Fall also. Because we have parents that suck also. They ruin a lot for the kids. The kids have fun and don’t know all the crap going on.

The grass is not always greener. [/quote]

Don't forget about parents changing pools after the summer so that their kid can get to swim A meets.  Or those parents who switch because their kid has been the fastest in their age groups for years on a lower division team, who suddenly want bragging rights about their kid being on a upper division team.[/quote]

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