Reply to Swim Team Drama

Forum Index » Swimming and Diving

Reply to "Swim Team Drama"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents complaining that their kid didn’t swim “X” stroke, parents telling the coach that their kid was VERY DISAPPOINTED that they didn’t make it to divisionals.

Otherwise it was a fun season. [/quote]

We had a parent who was “SO disappointed” about an award situation that she wrote and sent a multi-paragraph email while the end of season picnic was still happening.[/quote]

Wow. I just drank my wine and went home early.   Maybe she had a little TOO much wine.  The awards at our pool were honestly laughable.  Sometimes I am not sure why we let our kids participate in this farce:  starting to understand why the older parents we know started planning vacations during swim season! [/quote]

I rolled my eyes a little at our awards too (though it was a fun night overall). Definitely reflected the "who's who" of the families in the in-crowd. We also have a big team and some kids got multiple awards - seems like they could have spread those out a bit, especially some of the more subjective ones.  (My kids are new and average and did not deserve nor get any special awards - but there were plenty of kids they could have given awards to without giving the same kids 2 or 3.)[/quote]

We have a game where we take a drink every time a kid who swims for the coach's club year round gets a discretionary coach's award. It gets us pretty tipsy. [/quote]

We had coaches actually referencing the kids' club swimming in the awards speeches.[/quote]

Jell-O shots for all on that one![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics