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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you wanting your kids to volunteer so badly? SSL hours? At our pool the coaching is a job and it's usually pretty competitive to get.  I mean, I don't want less experienced swimmers coaching my kids and it's usually the year round swimmers who coach (which is totally fair).

I think your expectations are not reasonable.  Teen volunteers still need to be managed.  It's like anything else that you have to invest the time in to get the positions. [/quote]

OK, so, first of all, both kids have been club swimmers for years; they are not dabblers. And this is not the first summer team they’ve been on, but now we are on the one in our neighborhood that they can get to themselves and is overall more fun and competitive for them.

My older kid is a competitive year round swimmer and really wants to coach but now realizes he’s unlikely to get to at this stage in the game, and it’s disheartening. At this point it’s probably going to pay off better for him to focus on other things, but I’m not sure what yet. He doesn’t need service hours or money, he just wants to coach and needs to stay busy.

My other kid is the one who needs the service hours and wanted to do it by volunteer coaching.

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