I have been the paid masters coach at our Y for a couple years, and my supervisor wanted to know if this was an anomaly or not. So I am hoping you guys can help me with the following poll. To make it reasonably comparable to our situation, please respond only if your team has at least 10 or so masters swimmers. (Teams with fewer probably do the coaching on an ad hoc basis.)
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None of the responses really fit my team. We have 150 members, 10 practices per week and a head coach and three assistant coaches. Our coaches get free membership, plus $10 to $15 per hour, which I consider money well spent. (We have two coaches on deck at every practice and at least two at every meet. Also the head coach more or less runs the team.) Our team grew tremendously and became far more cohesive and successful after we started paying the coaches -- it gave us a real, coherent program, not just ad hoc workouts.
None of the responses really fit my team. We have 150 members, 10 practices per week and a head coach and three assistant coaches. Our coaches get free membership, plus $10 to $15 per hour, which I consider money well spent. (We have two coaches on deck at every practice and at least two at every meet. Also the head coach more or less runs the team.) Our team grew tremendously and became far more cohesive and successful after we started paying the coaches -- it gave us a real, coherent program, not just ad hoc workouts.
