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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don’t you not let the delinquent families not swim? I know it totally sucks to punish a kid for their parents’ faults but maybe you need to actually enforce things? Don’t ban them for next season- make it the next meet. [/quote]

+1, that seems like a great solutions, but the people on this board would rather complain anonymously instead of doing anything to change the status quo. [/quote]

This idea is floated every year and is always a source of early July musings at our pool. The reality is that the way many teams are run, there isn’t anyone with actual authority to block participation. It would take a board vote to amend the bylaws and I don’t see many boards that would be willing to bother with this. Even if they did, enforcement would be tough- you’d have to have a club manager or board member intercept and refund registration at the beginning of the year, and have high school and college aged coaches with the confidence and authority to tell a kid to get out of a lane when they show up to practice. And then on the back end, there could be repercussions in terms of the original member agreement a club member signed vs. the benefits of membership they have access to. We even worked in the off-season to see if we could institute a no-volunteer fee to be levied at the end of the season but gave up because of the complications.

Anyway, by late July, as a parent rep I mostly forget the annoyances of volunteer recruiting and just feel the happy glow of a fun season. It always works out.[/quote]

Interesting. Luckily at our pool, there are fmvery few families with swimmers who swim at A meets who fail to volunteer regularly. The B meets are a different beast and arguably so much more work.  Very frustrating to see hundreds of kids swim and the same bedraggled volunteers running the show.  I’ve started to sit a few B meets out to put pressure on those parents.  I think maybe giving the families that DO volunteer some kind of extra credit could be a work around vis a vis the rules though.  There are also ways to track and incentivize volunteer hours—a little fun competition? Winner gets a zero gravity lounger for the next season? Who knows.  But some teams obviously need to make volunteering more fun.[/quote]

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