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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Others have provided good answers.

Meets are far away so you can swim against other teams with whom your team in competitive. If you are losing every meet, you either were unlucky to be in the lowest of teams qualifying for your division - or you were seeded higher but some of your best swimmers from last year (who contributed to the seeding) did not come back or had to miss meets. It's likely to be better next year when everything is re-calibrated.

Volunteering is what it is. It takes a ton of people to run a swim meet and a ton more to do all the 'spirit' stuff that makes summer swim the fun thing that it is. Those who embrace it usually make good friends in their community and look forward to the short intense swim season (and also look forward to when it ends!). If it's not your thing, that's fine, but it probably means summer swim isn't for your family.

For us at least, summer swim is 40% about the swimming and 60% about the team, fun, and community. Our coaching is good and my kids have gotten better every summer, but if you are looking for great individual instruction, summer swim is not where it's at. If you are looking for something that your kids can work at, get exercise, be challenged emotionally and physically, form friendships, be silly, and have great role models in the form of older kids (or great leadership experiences once they become an older kid) -it's one of the best games in town. This is especially true as the kids spend more years on the team and really become a part of it.

I think it's totally reasonable that someone signing up for something called 'swim team'  expects it to be mostly about the swimming and might feel like what they got was not at all what they were signing up for. But those of us who keep coming back see the value in the aspects that transcend swimming -- including all those volunteer hours getting to know other neighborhood families and making something special happen for our kids.[/quote]

THIS.  Thank you so much for capturing what makes summer swim so special, PP.  [/quote]

+1 very well said!

We love summer swim and with three kids, it’s no small commitment.  But that intensity is part of what makes it so special.  It’s definitely not for everyone and that’s fine.  IME, the parents who jump into volunteering are the ones who enjoy it the most.  Yes, it’s a ton of work, but also so much fun.[/quote]

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