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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent on deck Friday,  I can attest it was the biggest single cluster that I have ever witnessed at a Champs event and PVS should be embarrassed by how it all went down. I witnessed one particular PVS official literally in glee saying how she proudly wasn’t letting any parents on the deck and was gloating how she was going to kick all parents out of the building. It was appalling.  That particular official also started power tripping on deck with 800 parents, telling them they couldn’t leave and attempted to force them to time the whole session. I got her name and will be reporting her to the league. No official should act with that kind of complete contempt for parents who volunteer with timing constantly. The meet host was also way in over his head I’m in how to run a successful champs meet and it showed. Parents pay an exorbitant amount to these teams, volunteer around the clock, and work their tails off to get their kids to practices at all hours of the day. To rob them from watching their kids swim a finals champs race is downright wrong and PVS needs to find a better way. [/quote]

WOW! This post here makes me sad for all our swimmers.

I too am a parent that pays “an exorbitant amount” to the teams, work my “tail off” to get my kids to practice at all hours of the day, and “volunteers around the clock.”

As an official for PVS who has volunteered my time for 100 PVS sessions this season alone, it’s disheartening to see this. Do I think that everyone should have to do what we as officials voluntarily do, not at all!

Many times official’s don’t have kids swimming in meets that we work at, or if we do, our swimmers wait and sit around so that we can help swimmer’s NOT OUR OWN get to swim.

When you say “rob them from watching their kid swim a finals champs” I have often thought, it’s really sad how hard the swimmers have worked to make it to finals for PVS to not be able to get 18 out of “800” parents to step up to help these kids swim. They’ve worked hard all season. They’ve warmed up. They’re ready to go, waiting behind the blocks, nervous and we can’t get 18 parents down to time. And if you have to stay to the end, well that’s awesome because you’ve helped other athletes accomplish something too and you’ve taught your swimmer that staying and cheering on teammates, or timing or sometimes having to sacrifice a little is a good thing for our community.

So instead of yelling at PVS, coaches, host teams, officials, how about you turn and yell at the multitude of parents who never volunteer instead and blame them the next time the swimmers, your children are standing behind the blocks while the rest of the deck is ready to go.

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