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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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, [b]especially some of the more subjective ones.[/b]  (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]

They are all subjective, lol. There’s a noticeable drop off in participation in summer swim as the age groups go up.  Trophies don’t have the same appeal when it’s obvious they aren’t earned—kids move on but not without some drama. Best not to encourage kids to get too invested in the awards, but that’s a topic for another day.[/quote]

Except for MVP, at least at our pool. It is purely based on points earned in individual races ( not relays). We had a couple kids win all their races so they both got it. [/quote]

And ours we have most improved and sportsmanship for both genders every age group and an over all coaches award separate from the MVP (which is high points). Everyone of those goes to a kid who swims for the coach's club every year. In some cases, it seems like he is throwing a bone to a kid who swims year rounds, but can't make A meets  [/quote]

We are MCSL and have most improved, coaches award and hardest worker. Out of those 6 (one male and female each), only one (most improved) went to a swimmer in the coaches year round club.  That was for a kid who could barely make it across the pool last year, and this year had all star times - so completely warranted. I have never seen favoritism at our pool. Thankfully. Out coaches are pretty awesome. [/quote]

You are lucky.  Our coaches awards didn't go to the kids who won or trying the hardest or most improved, it went to the team rep kids and a few who didn't do much of anything and none of those kids came for most of the practices or meets and complained and argued with the coaches the entire time.  We have huge favoritism and it's not to the winning kids.   I suspect if they keep up the behavior some of the families will leave.[/quote]

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