My kid did club swim for 2 years and doesn’t want to do it anymore. I agree with most of the above.
She has a summer birthday and turned 9 the summer befire she started club but because she was level 1 was with the 8 and unders. The next year she bumped up to level 2 but was still with much younger kids. She didn’t have the 100free time to go to level 3 where there were more kids her age.
I’d like to have seen them do better with that. She started late compared ti a lot of others but didn’t want to be with the 6-8 year olds.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll echo wanting to see more team bonding too.

Other things:
1. Please for the love of god make the website send an auto email when sign up opens for a meet and then a day before it closes - we continually end up having to ask the coach to waive deadlines because we don’t “live” on the site and don’t know when sign up has opened.

2. More specific technique guidance to individual kids. Current coach does this well. Coaches for the younger years totally did not.

You all don't get emails? Teamunify has an automatic notification.

I know no club that does technique work with little kids - it is a shame. Some summer programs do better.

I agree on the individual instruction. My kid needed actual feedback to improve.

I'll also add that it's totally uncool to have the minis swim in a meet without telling them how it works. My mini didn't understand the start signal (resulting in a false start), what a starting block was, or whether the race was 1 or more lengths. It caused a ton of anxiety and tears that extended all season. Little kids are little and need the basics explained.