If you swim for a team or club what are your facilities?
what types of difficulties do you face..practice time, pool temp, etc?
how do the swimmers handle these changes?
how does the club communicate changes and do they offer make up times etc?
do you pay annually or monthly?
If you swim for a team or club what are your facilities?
I now swim with a USA Swimming club team. We swim at two different pools, 50% of the time at a local YMCA pool, and 50% of the time at the Wenatchee High School pool. During the summer, we get access to the outdoor 50 meter pool in town.
what types of difficulties do you face..practice time, pool temp, etc?
My masters practices are from 5:00-7:00am, and are honestly not organized too well (which was part of my reason for the USA club choice). It's more of a "free-for-all" type of swim, which for me was just crazy at times.
My age group club practices Monday-Friday from 7:00-9:00pm which for me works well, aside from trying to get to sleep after working out like that. I do have to work at 5:00am, so sometimes I'm sleep deprived. Saturday mornings are from 8:00-10:00am. They were offering two mornings a week at the h.s. pool from 5:30-7:00am, but those may be gone, as they weren't too popular. I would've done them, but work is first.
Pool temps vary at the two facilities...84ish at the YMCA pool, and 80-81 at the high school pool. You can really tell the difference day to day, but neither one really bothers me or makes me happy either way. I just swim in whatever I have available.
Practices vary at times as well, but the coach does a good job at letting us know the time changes in advance (usually).
When the team has meets, practices get cancelled, but I can always go pay $6 for a YMCA lap swim session, which has its flaws as well. :)
how does the club communicate changes and do they offer make up times etc?
Emails, website, communication by the coach at practice. We get emails quite regularly from the coach, and Facebook is nice too (but you have to be a friend of the coach or Like the team).
do you pay annually or monthly?
I pay an annual membership fee and pay for training monthly ($110 per month, currently).
If you swim for a team or club what are your facilities?
I now swim with a USA Swimming club team. We swim at two different pools, 50% of the time at a local YMCA pool, and 50% of the time at the Wenatchee High School pool. During the summer, we get access to the outdoor 50 meter pool in town.
what types of difficulties do you face..practice time, pool temp, etc?
My masters practices are from 5:00-7:00am, and are honestly not organized too well (which was part of my reason for the USA club choice). It's more of a "free-for-all" type of swim, which for me was just crazy at times.
My age group club practices Monday-Friday from 7:00-9:00pm which for me works well, aside from trying to get to sleep after working out like that. I do have to work at 5:00am, so sometimes I'm sleep deprived. Saturday mornings are from 8:00-10:00am. They were offering two mornings a week at the h.s. pool from 5:30-7:00am, but those may be gone, as they weren't too popular. I would've done them, but work is first.
Pool temps vary at the two facilities...84ish at the YMCA pool, and 80-81 at the high school pool. You can really tell the difference day to day, but neither one really bothers me or makes me happy either way. I just swim in whatever I have available.
Practices vary at times as well, but the coach does a good job at letting us know the time changes in advance (usually).
When the team has meets, practices get cancelled, but I can always go pay $6 for a YMCA lap swim session, which has its flaws as well. :)
how does the club communicate changes and do they offer make up times etc?
Emails, website, communication by the coach at practice. We get emails quite regularly from the coach, and Facebook is nice too (but you have to be a friend of the coach or Like the team).
do you pay annually or monthly?
I pay an annual membership fee and pay for training monthly ($110 per month, currently).
