We just got done with today's practice and I have to say that we had more late swimmers today than we have had so far this year! I'm curious to see what everyone's policy (if any) you or your team have with showing up on time? I definitely don't want to be a harda$$, but I want people to show up on time as well!
Look forward to the comments!
Age group is a different story. The standing policy at my club was 100 fly at the end of practice for every minute late. ("On time" meant in the water by start time, not standing on the pool deck.)
I can pretty much credit this and similar policies by that coach for turning me into a 200 butterflier by the time I went to college. :)
Is there any punishment for the "shower rats"(people who hang out in the shower/locker room area for the good portion of the practice or the people who show up at the start of practice, go hang out at the local pizza place(We used to train at Swarthmore college and the pool was next to downtown Swarthmore) and then, come back before their parents came to pick them up. These kinds of things were prevalent at my age group club. Heck, some of the girls would dunk their hair in the shower to make it look like they swam when they didn't. Of course, none of this affected some of these individuals' performance for some odd reason. This one girl never trained more than 30 minutes but was always able to get her Junior Cut every year. The coach didn't do anything. If I was the coach, I would ignored these slackers at the meets and put all my focus at the meet to the "hard workers".
Age group is a different story. The standing policy at my club was 100 fly at the end of practice for every minute late. ("On time" meant in the water by start time, not standing on the pool deck.)
I can pretty much credit this and similar policies by that coach for turning me into a 200 butterflier by the time I went to college. :)
Is there any punishment for the "shower rats"(people who hang out in the shower/locker room area for the good portion of the practice or the people who show up at the start of practice, go hang out at the local pizza place(We used to train at Swarthmore college and the pool was next to downtown Swarthmore) and then, come back before their parents came to pick them up. These kinds of things were prevalent at my age group club. Heck, some of the girls would dunk their hair in the shower to make it look like they swam when they didn't. Of course, none of this affected some of these individuals' performance for some odd reason. This one girl never trained more than 30 minutes but was always able to get her Junior Cut every year. The coach didn't do anything. If I was the coach, I would ignored these slackers at the meets and put all my focus at the meet to the "hard workers".
