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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After so, so many emails about volunteering, the message on the team website about volunteer opportunities, the Welcome to Swim Zoom call, and then listening to our team’s parent reps stand behind me at practice and loudly complain about the lack of volunteers and how they should just cancel socials and all fun things to “show the parents not to take it for granted”, I signed up for a volunteer spot for the Saturday social. It’s our first year on swim team and my kid is a “mini” who didn’t even go to the social.

I showed up 5 min before my assigned time, dressed appropriately to help. I introduced myself to the lead of the activity and was told “well the real work was the set up.” I then stood around for 90 minutes trying to make myself useful and then cleaned up, took out trash, and carried tables. The lifeguards said hi to me because they know my kids. The neighborhood kids said hi to me and thanked me for helping them. No adults spoke to me except to point where to put the tables at the end of the event. No adults assisted the little kids - only me and the lifeguards/HS age coaches. The “experienced” swim team parents just talked among themselves.

So if you want volunteers for your team, maybe try being nice to the people who volunteer or at least not talking smack about parents in front of the parents of 5-6 yr olds who are learning how everything works. 3 weeks into practice and 1 home meet we cheered for, swim is feeling really cliquish. I was hoping to learn the major volunteer roles this year while my kid is not in meets, but I’m feeling pretty discouraged. [/quote]

We experienced this at swim team too-it's not ok. Sorry OP![/quote]

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