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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh yeah and some of the paid coaches at our pool aren’t year round swimmers, but like PP said they’ve been plugged in for years and their parents pretty much run the pool.

I just wish I’d learned this up front instead of getting our hopes up. [/quote]

Our pool interviews for summer positions when college kids are home on spring break. The spots at our pool have been filled by mid-April. Our pool has been open for 3 weeks and we’re on the 3rd week of summer swim team practices.

If you have been at your pool, just not active, why are you complaining about this now in June? [/quote]

Because in April when the coach spots got filled, I thought NBD, the kids can volunteer, maybe someday after they do more volunteering they can become coaches. But now I find out it’s hard even to grab onto the bottom rung.[/quote]

Have you asked about them volunteering, not volunteer coaching but helping with set up and take down for home meets, or writing names on ribbons at home meet, or doing a Costco run if they're driving?  My pool is happy to have teens do those jobs.

My kid is a paid coach this summer, after being a volunteer last summer.  I believe you that your club swimmer probably swims better than my kid.

But my kid got that job after years of helping with set up and take down, and showing up for the clean up day before the pool opens to help paint and spruce up the place, and helping keep the little kids organized and entertained.  He's the A meet swimmer who shows up for the B meets to cheer on his little buddies. It's true that he started attending swim meets in a baby carrier. It's true that I volunteer a lot, which meant that he was there a lot so he had opportunities to learn skills that are important, and to offer to help.  [/quote]

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