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Maybe it is the difference between a big and a small team then. I'm the PP who said that our "most improved" awards (and, in fact, all awards) only go to A meet swimmers. Our swim team is over 200 kids though, and [b]our head coach doesn't know all of the A meet swimmers, let alone the B meet swimmers.[/b] The coaches awards and "most improved" awards almost always go to the A meet kids who have paid her for private lessons on the side. Summer swim should be fun, but our team loses a lot of kids by the 11-12 and 13-14 age groups who get tired of being ignored at practice every summer and just give up. This year, our team reps and the coach even decided to stop giving out "end of year" individual medals. The B meet kids, and A meet kids who didn't medal at divisionals, just walked away with a paper plate at the banquet and many were sad about it. (And my own kid got dual medals at divisionals, so I am not saying this out of sour grapes.)  I would love to see our "most improved" trophies go to B meet swimmers next year to be more inclusive, so I appreciate the OP's question and hearing how other teams do it. [/quote]

You need a new coach.[/quote]

+1.  We have over 200 kids and set a very clear expectation that our coaches should know the kids by name.  Our junior coaches seem to divide up the team a bit so that Larla and Larlo focus on the 8 and unders, Aidan and Emily on the 9-10s and so on that way every kid has at least 2 or 3 coaches who know their names and give feedback after their races.

We are a mid-tier pool so while winning is nice it isn't the pure focus of our team.

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