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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Former Member
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!
I hope you aren't behaving exactly like that...
I think that for any kid that experienced that locker room then either nothing will ever again phase them or they will be scarred for life. I am in the latter group. I don't know, maybe they closed the sauna down by the time you were there. I was there from about age 9-12 and only found out years later what was actually going on there.
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!
I hope you aren't behaving exactly like that...
I think that for any kid that experienced that locker room then either nothing will ever again phase them or they will be scarred for life. I am in the latter group. I don't know, maybe they closed the sauna down by the time you were there. I was there from about age 9-12 and only found out years later what was actually going on there.
