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[quote=Anonymous]The other important point that drives swim parents to be involved is that a meet takes like 30+ parent volunteers to run. It's easy to go to a soccer or basketball game, watch the paid ref manage the game and leave. At a swim meet, many of the parent have to stay and learn to work together to support the team. The Referee is a trained volunteer parent, the stroke and turn officials are trained parents, the person running the computer that records the times, the ribbon-writer etc. etc. It takes at least 30 volunteers to run a swim meet. Lots of hours outside the meet times to manage the entries, manage the other volunteers, etc. All that work together does create a community not just among the swimmers but among the parents too. So if you're that parent that just drops your 4 kids off and leaves you should be thankful for the "over involvement" of your neighbors. Without them, you'd have no swim team. [/quote]
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