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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our team’s evening practices start at 6:00. For many years those were the only practices my kids went to after camp. Now they are old enough to ride bikes to am practice. We have 200 kids in the team.

It is very unfortunate that other pools can’t/wont allow this. So many members of our team have 2 working parents so it’s very necessary for many families. I’ve always appreciated the effort made to be inclusive. [/quote]
Our head swim coach is a public school teacher and has to have another job to pay her bills, so practices are always done by 9:30 AM (with the earliest session from 6:45-7:45 AM) and no evening practices.  Our junior coaches also have day jobs and can't do a double practice schedule.  Our team isn't big enough to afford more coaches.  It's great if other clubs offer an evening option, but not every team can do this.  We actually switched to this pool just because the swim team practice times do work for our working family (done before many camps start), while our prior pool had mid-morning practices that didn't work for us.[/quote]

I understand why smaller teams cannot do two practices. However, I think the afternoon practices are the fun ones because there are generally more kids and the kids hang out to play afterwards.

The morning practice you described sounds like kids go to swim and they rush off to change for camp. If there is only one option for practice, I think the evening practice would be more fun.[/quote]
There are some kids who rush off (just as there would be on a weeknight with families needing to do dinner and bedtime), but also a good number who are hanging out while older or younger siblings finish their practice.  And kids hang out lots with meets 2-3x per week, plus team socials and pep rallies, etc.[/quote]

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