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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Team reps and other posters who say this is “unacceptable” and “not tolerated” - have you ever not allowed a kid to swim? I notice there are no anecdotes of kids not being allowed to swim. I’m sure there have been cases in which coaches have had to talk to parents of difficult kids, but actually telling a kid they can’t swim and telling the family to take a hike- has anyone done it?

The handbook might say one thing, but it’s quite another to actually pull a kid out of a rec activity. [/quote]

Absolutely. Former NVSL Rep here and we suspended a difficult A meet swimmer (after multiple warnings for bad sportsmanship and being difficult/disruptive in practice).  When it continued, we kicked him off the team.

In my 10 years at a mid-division team, including 4 as Rep, I'd be shocked if we were an outlier. Outside of perhaps Div1, nobody cares that much about winning and losing to tolerate a swimmer who is that problematic and disruptive so as to affect the experience of the other swimmers.

And I'd be shocked if there were more than a half dozen NVSL pools paying their coaches bonuses based on the team's results.

To a later poster:  "Summer End Bonus" is basically the parents all pitching in some extra cash like almost every youth sport (end of season coach's gift). I would never assume it was explicitly based on Ws and Ls.[/quote]

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