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?
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Some over the pond here! We swim with the age groupers and masters tend to derobe to shower, whereas the youngsters won't.
Of our masters swimmers most are parents, two are coaches and I'm the male welfare officer and a parent. My son despairs a bit, but as we used to say when I played rugby 'seen one, you've seen them all'.
I understand that youngsters are more self conscious, which is why we have cubicles for them if they want to use them.
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Some over the pond here! We swim with the age groupers and masters tend to derobe to shower, whereas the youngsters won't.
Of our masters swimmers most are parents, two are coaches and I'm the male welfare officer and a parent. My son despairs a bit, but as we used to say when I played rugby 'seen one, you've seen them all'.
I understand that youngsters are more self conscious, which is why we have cubicles for them if they want to use them.
