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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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] The families who complete their volunteer hours at our pool get an early team registration link (our management board is always threatening to cap our team size). Since the threat hasn’t been fulfilled yet, it’s not a huge prize but it’s something.[/quote] Volunteering at B meets is a lot more work than volunteering at A meets. Many of our B meet only swim parents who are in the know sign up to volunteer only at A meets. [/quote] It does make you summer swim savvy but I also find that it makes you a little bit of an a-hole to purposely volunteer at the meets your kid isn’t fast enough to make because volunteering at those meets is easier than volunteering at the meets your kid is swimming in. I totally get the people that do it because they are wrangling little ones at the B meets, but otherwise those people are also part of the problem [b]because they are snagging volunteer slots from people who are actually at that meet[/b]. [/quote] All A meet kids swim in the B meets, though. So the "A Meet families" can just as easily work the B meets. I don't see your point.[/quote] In MCSL, there are some kids that max out in A meets. They can swim 3+IM in one week. So they don’t do B meets at all. We have a large team and there are a handful of kids like this, but most do both A and B[/quote] So across all northern va, MD and DC, your point applies to a tiny number of kids who live in Maryland. [/quote] Ok, NVSL parent. How do you know that the DMVs other summer leagues all follow the NVSL model of A/B meets with a 2 stroke max at A meets? Hint, they don’t. MCSL is also comparable in size to NVSL. Why do the NVSL parents on this site come off as so insufferable? [/quote]
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