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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1)How old is this swimmer? Not practicing will catch up to them. 
2) The swimmer yells at their parent, Why is this a coach issue?
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She’s 11. I would think that the lack of practice would have caught up to her by now, but it hasn’t, possibly because summer is obviously only sprints.

I offered the example of her screaming at her parents at meets because it causes everyone around to sort of freeze and feel tense. [/quote]

OP, I don't think a coach or rep is going to intervene in her yelling at her parents. If the parents wanted to discipline her, they would. Or, maybe they are disciplining her at home and you don't know it. She is 11 and has some pretty extreme behavior. She probably has disabilities that you don't know about. In this area most of the top division teams have numbers approaching or exceeding 200 kids. Other people aren't quitting just because this girl yells at her parents or is a poor sport during a meet (since you claim she doesn't practice, a meet seems to be the only time people have to interact with her). The other kids most likely quit, in part, because they don't want to do summer swim anymore.[/quote]

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