I'm a board member for our swim club.
Last nite there was mention of a complaint from a senior high school swimmer who was uncomfortable with using a locker room with the adult master swimmers. We practice at the same time a few days out of the week.
This became an bigger issue last nite because we have a desire to run USA swimming at the same time as a few masters sessions in the evening and our coach voiced concern about everyone using the locker room at the same time and kids being uncomfortable.
Does your club run practices at the same time?
Have you run into issues like this?
How did you handle/manage locker room time?
The kids definitely do things differently. Most (masters) swimmers I know remove their suit while showering to rinse it out. The kids never do this. They just don't walk around the locker room naked like masters swimmers seem to have little problem with.
I do remember when I was in high school and we used to do morning workouts in the summer at Michigan State University we always commented about the "creepy old guys" in the locker room walking around naked. Thinking back these creepy old guys were just behaving exactly as I tend to now!
The bottom line is it's a locker room. Deal with it. I can imagine the kids laughing at us about our lack of modesty, but it's sort of funny to think someone would actually complain about it. Buck up kid!
The kids definitely do things differently. Most (masters) swimmers I know remove their suit while showering to rinse it out. The kids never do this. They just don't walk around the locker room naked like masters swimmers seem to have little problem with.
I do remember when I was in high school and we used to do morning workouts in the summer at Michigan State University we always commented about the "creepy old guys" in the locker room walking around naked. Thinking back these creepy old guys were just behaving exactly as I tend to now!
The bottom line is it's a locker room. Deal with it. I can imagine the kids laughing at us about our lack of modesty, but it's sort of funny to think someone would actually complain about it. Buck up kid!
