Swim Rant

What IS it with young swim coaches? Our summer team has been craming 10+ swimmers per lane (2 lanes) for evening practices for the last 2 weeks. It has just been ugly with collisions, swim overs, etc and none of the swimmers have been getting anything resembling a good practice. I mentioned to the HC that they do get 3 lanes for practice in the afternoons. The response was 'I didn't know that'. Why would a coach not ask first thing how many lanes they can use? I know that I would especially with conditions as crowded as the have been. BUT even after that, and offering to string another lane line for them, the response was 'we should be fine with 2' so halfway thru practice they move over to the reserved rec lane for a couple of minutes until the pool mgr tells them they can't and they go right back to the 2 lanes. Sigh.

What IS it with young swim coaches? Our summer team has been craming 10+ swimmers per lane (2 lanes) for evening practices for the last 2 weeks. It has just been ugly with collisions, swim overs, etc and none of the swimmers have been getting anything resembling a good practice. I mentioned to the HC that they do get 3 lanes for practice in the afternoons. The response was 'I didn't know that'. Why would a coach not ask first thing how many lanes they can use? I know that I would especially with conditions as crowded as the have been. BUT even after that, and offering to string another lane line for them, the response was 'we should be fine with 2' so halfway thru practice they move over to the reserved rec lane for a couple of minutes until the pool mgr tells them they can't and they go right back to the 2 lanes. Sigh.