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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole system is offensive. Mine were A meet kids and year round swimmers. But if they are all on the same team, they should all be able to swim at the same meet. Otherwise, why pay 200-300$ (or more ?) over your membership to have your kid attend packed, chaotic practices? Then get sent to the "B Meet" if your team is even "lucky" enough to have any.[/quote]

So don't join then.  You know how it works and you understand the terms of participation and you prefer not to live with them, which is understandable - no one thing suits everyone.  But some of us love summer swim and are willing to contribute to it.  Live and let live.[/quote]

fine, some kids will keep showing up to the A meets and the awards banquet and everyone else can "practice" 20 to a lane for an hour in freezing water then maybe go to a B meet. Its just bizarre. Teammates should be teammates.[/quote]

Yeah I agree with this and then the coaches and team reps are insanely peppy and act like everyone is having this amazing experience.  Our team at least is kind of cult-ish.  But meanwhile so many kids feel totally disconnected and end up quitting.  It's a weird environment and what other sport is like this for something that is supposed to be "fun"?  Genuinely curious if people have examples.  Any other sport, including a rec league, you are on a team and then you're all doing all the things together.  With competitive sports, they made and are part of the team and get some limited playing time.  This is like you got cut for varsity but stay on the team aren't you having a great time and show up to practice every day and go over there with the other kids who aren't very good and then we'll have separate games for you!  But you are included!!  We value you! I mean sorry kids see through this BS eventually.[/quote]
Culture can be off for a lot of reasons. My club swimmer would normally come to practice but they are fast, NCSA/Sectionals fast, and so the non- year round kids will point blank yell that they can’t be in their lane, they need to go to a different lane. So yeah, they now only go to practice when other year rounders will be there, but they do make all the A meets and crush it. From the outside you would think they are the problem as the fast year round kid, but they actually aren’t. They would attend practice more but the summer swim only kids are a-holes to them. I’d love for them to quit summer swim but they won’t. [/quote]

Your kid isn’t friends with any of these other kids? That’s weird. I was one of those fast swimmers. I would go from early morning long course practice with my club straight to summer league practice. The summer league practice was much easier and I got to see my friends that only did summer swim. No one was mean about it. Maybe some good natured ribbing about how crazy I was to swim so much but that’s it. Is your kid trying to like run people over in the summer league practice? I didn’t do that because I had already gotten my actual training done. Plus it would be a jerk move.[/quote]
Nope, older teens just being a-holes. This literally happened at the first practice of the year before they had even started swimming. So my kid won’t go to practice unless she knows a larger group of friends are going to be there. I’m just saying this “culture” of summer swim isn’t always sunshine and roses.  [/quote]

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