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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're a lower division team, and we're on a losing streak too. Mostly because the regular A meet kids are on vacation. [/quote]

This. Though we don't do A/B meets. One week 1/2 our kids didn't swim. Most other weeks we have been missing at least 1/4- 1/3 ("it was a long drive", "we were on vacation", "It was too early given the drive", "mom is out of town and I can't get 2 kids out the door"....) This is our 11th (and final) year on the team and the first that we have struggled to get kids to the meets to swim (we (swim tema board) have offered carpools, assembling breakfast bags (fruit, water, protein/cereal bars) to be given out the night before to help families troubleshoot, but it doesn't seem like the commitment is there. It's sad because almost every meet we have lost by 6-15 points meaning a couple of more kids would have made the difference and allowed us to win. Instead, we are going to lose every meet and probably drop a division.[/quote]

What's your coaching culture like?  Our kids would pretty much do anything for their coaches and that makes the kids ambitious and the parents really supportive.  If someone on our crew misses an A meet everyone assumes something is wrong and asks where they are and if they're OK.  We swam a team earlier this season where the coaching culture was clearly ... not productive, and it showed all over the meet.[/quote]

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