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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holy cow. Our swim team is staffed by college students coaching the HSers, HSers coaching the little guys, and parent volunteers managing it all. Coaches get minimum wage or community service hours.[/quote]

The best way to run it on a budget is to have a "manager" coach who is/are a parent volunteer(s) that do everything except spell out the workouts. Comms, entries, everything.

Then have a "coach" or coaches for the practices and meets. Agree, college student, 17/18yo swimmers, anyone good with kids and somewhat knowledgeable about strokes etc. Lets face it, its not real training, its maybe getting strokes right and having fun. The skilled kids already have a coach and know what to do.

OTOH, if your team has the dough and wants a turnkey solution, throw some bucks at a real coach, club practices are often dialed back that time of year so they're available. But whatever way you go, make sure the duties and expectations are spelled out explicitly. Make sure the club coach is actually up on the admin parts of coaching if they will be doing those things.[/quote]

That only works if you have a good parent rep.  Ours is dominating and controlling and will not let anyone help.  We run through coaches because of the reps.[/quote]

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