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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a swimmer who never attends practice with our summer team. She swims 30-35K yards a week with her year round team and it would be detrimental to her stroke mechanics to work with a different coach. Summer coaches seem to have an unspoken agreement with year round coaches, not to "coach" those swimmers. Despite not attending practice, she participates in big/lil swimmer activities, Fun Friday pep rallies, helps at the preteam practices and other team events. Please note that DD wasn't always a strong swimmer and often placed in the B meets as a 8u or 9/10.  I wouldn't have wanted my B swimmer competing in A meets until she was ready- it would have been defeating to compete with swimmers that were much more developed.[/quote]

My kids almost never attend practice with their MCSL team. That's the way it has always been, there is an understanding. You're right, they do not need more yards! There is a wide variation of what a team expects/accepts in terms of participation beyond practice. We have plenty of year-round swimmers who are at the pool a lot! They are hanging out during/after practice, doing social activities, coaching pre-team, cheering and participating in B meet spirit activities, etc. They are absolutely "part of the team" and don't just fly in for a Saturday morning meet.

I have to disagree with your anti-coaching stance though. If you have good quality summer coaches (and many MCSL teams do, many of them are club coaches), it is awesome to have another coach look at something from a different perspective or even use different words to make the exact same correction. Sometimes it clicks hearing it a different way, or watching someone else in the pool who isn't in your regular training group. I saw a coach working with my kid after a race Saturday, and I was thrilled that she was getting that one-on-one coaching.[/quote]

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