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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Our team also called out people making their kids available for the A meet and then pulling out last minute.”

That sounds really odd. Unless it is Covid why would people not know what they can or cannot swim way ahead of time. [/quote]

By last minute you mean the day of or after the line up is out which is usually a few days before?
I know some people mark availability at the beginning of the season and then forget to change it but agree that pulling out at the last minute, aka that morning, seems odd and inconsiderate and in our team's case it's been kids who are showing signs of illness like they wake up with a fever or stomach problems. [/quote]
I mean day of withdrawals, and they weren’t related to sickness on that day. Think the kids aren’t that into swimming and just didn’t feel like it that morning, or the weather wasn’t great so they didn’t post. [/quote]

That's not good. Your team reps need to work with the coaches to make sure that doesn't happen.[/quote]

I’m the poster at the pool that’s having the parent meeting and I can assure you that the coaches and parent reps are constantly hustling to chase everyone down who says they’re going to be at a meet after kids have bailed for:

-Little League All-Stars
-traffic
-weather too hot
-weather too wet
-weather too cold
-parents forgot to arrange rides

To the head coach’s credit, he lost it on an A swimmer parent that didn’t sign their kid out and caused 2 relays to be scratched in a row. After the first relay, Coach read A swimmer the riot act. Parent meeting scheduled after the second one. Coach was furious because it was a B swimmer’s first chance to swim on that A relay and the same family ruined it for him twice. [/quote]

Whoa. We are not a div 1 or 2 team, but parents/kids understand the impact to the team and definitely dont just not show up unless the kid wakes up sick. Our team does opt in to availability instead of opt out.

To answer OP, our team has a mix of club and summer only swimmers. Both get equal attention and enthusiasm from all of our coaches. Our head coach is in the water every day and many of our older swimmers stay to help our 8& U and mini team kids because they want to help the team. Our coaches stated goal this season was to win the spirit award, and that has made for an excellent season. There isnt a ton of time for stroke instruction, but it is summer swim, and that’s not what morning practices during summer swim really accomplishes. If anything, our 8&u and first time A meet participants get the most instruction and biggest cheers.

You mentioned other parents being okay w your coach. Maybe your pool isnt the right fit for your summer swim philosophy. We have a community pool closer to us than our current pool, but we drive a little further to be at the “fun but still competitive pool” because that fits with what we want. [/quote]

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