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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank God my kids don't do swim team.  [/quote]

haha Every sport has it's quirks.

I found little league baseball to be just as annoying. On top of the games that were also long (like swim meets), they wanted 3 - 4 hour hour concession stands. No thanks to standing in the hot small stand frying and grilling with a mask on. I happily gave them my volunteer fee and didn't want to earn it back. Our team had 4 dads coaching and that's a lot of work too for them to do game, practices, batting cages, and field prep and clean up. [/quote]

In our LL, they use the $150 volunteer fee to pay teens to run the concession stand.  I think that works well- they still request parents to sign up to work the concession stand to earn their volunteer fee back, but if no one signs up, they can pay a kid do to it.

BUT, as you pointed out, there are still other activities that need to be done, mostly around field prep and clean up.  Having parents help with that is like pulling teeth.  And basketball...you literally have to sit there and press start and stop on a clock (and at the lower levels, you're hardly stopping the clock- only for half time and free throws), but no one would ever do it.[/quote]

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