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?
In our locker room there are 5 bays of lockers with a bench down the middle of each bay. The gym has reserved the last bay as "adults only". I don't think it's due to modesty but because one HS team tends to leave their swim bags on the floors of all the bays so this gave 1 bay bag-free. Other than that, there haven't been any issues.
Oh we did have a teen age couple go in to the family changing room together and got caught on camera (which is outside the room). We were then told none of us were allowed in the family changing rooms. Sorry, I'm an adult, I'm going in there at 4am when no one else is around.
In our locker room there are 5 bays of lockers with a bench down the middle of each bay. The gym has reserved the last bay as "adults only". I don't think it's due to modesty but because one HS team tends to leave their swim bags on the floors of all the bays so this gave 1 bay bag-free. Other than that, there haven't been any issues.
Oh we did have a teen age couple go in to the family changing room together and got caught on camera (which is outside the room). We were then told none of us were allowed in the family changing rooms. Sorry, I'm an adult, I'm going in there at 4am when no one else is around.
