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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Overlee gonna Overlee. Godspeed [/quote]

My family's at a division 17 pool. Just like people said, the people who either weasel their way out of volunteering or run the pool are [i]still[/i] off on the side gossiping about kids' times. We can't even fill lanes, but here they are grudging some kid a few seconds on their fly time.[/quote]

Team Rep here. Trust me, we don't have time to gossip about kids' times or grandstand about our own kids.  We're too busy dealing with the crazy parents  :lol: [/quote]

Over our years at the pool I've seen both types of team reps.[/quote]

Unfortunately, we are on a team in a mid/lower division where one of the reps a few years ago put her child on a medley relay at divisional relay carnival, excluding a very fast child. Time-wise, this never should have happened. In fact, the free relay, which did not have the team rep’s child and had said fast child plus three other fast children, won a medal at all-star relays. The medley relay with the team rep’s child placed like 70th in all of the league. Had the top four been on the medley relay, they probably would have gotten a medal at all star relays too. My child is older, but everyone was murmuring and looking around, knowing exactly what happened. It was both embarrassing for the team rep’s child, who was a nice kid, and shined (or is it shone?) a big ugly light on the integrity of the team. That team rep left, we never knew why, but that was a stain for sure.[/quote]

Seriously? That is crazy.

I am a team rep and our coaches pick swimmers for Saturday meets and relay carnival. This includes sometime putting my kids in the spots where they can score point even if it's not a stroke they want to swim.  I just tell the coaches who is and isn't available to swim at given meet. [/quote]

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