How many o you know what is paid to your coach/coaches for the season ?
Do you pay into a required fund for the team or a monthly pay or how does the team do it?
how much do you think the coach should make for the time & effort of practices -meets - meetings required to run the team?
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We don't discriminate against Canadians eh? I'd find it pretty normal though. Different certification paths. Besides, US still has a huge edge over Canadian in Swimming I find. Just a personal opinion. Since I am Canadian myself, I think I am allowed to be little more critic about our home brewed swim coaches.
Anyway, I am not proud of the avg level of swim coaching here up North. That doesn't mean that there aren't highly competent ones. There are. But we have a hard time retaining them...... Coach Durieux (btw, that's a French Last Name. He may be from Quebec, this weird French speaking Province in which I live) is yet another living proof.
And I'm not even judging Master coaching. Because there, it's completely discouraging.
We have about 200 swimmers in the program. Which compares in number with a Squad I regularly train with.
And it compares to a few squads I can think of. Numbers are there. Swimming is very popular here up North. Bloooody freaking frustrating Parents volunteers committees, those who vote on Salaries (among other crucial things) are what I believe to be the bigger part of the problem. And it's not about to change. Vicious circle. Any solution?
Anyway, I am absolutely pleased to see that these organizations work well for you in California. If there's one person that could confirm that such structures exist here in Canada, it would be Lindsay. If he's reading, I'd love to hear about his take.
We don't discriminate against Canadians eh? I'd find it pretty normal though. Different certification paths. Besides, US still has a huge edge over Canadian in Swimming I find. Just a personal opinion. Since I am Canadian myself, I think I am allowed to be little more critic about our home brewed swim coaches.
Anyway, I am not proud of the avg level of swim coaching here up North. That doesn't mean that there aren't highly competent ones. There are. But we have a hard time retaining them...... Coach Durieux (btw, that's a French Last Name. He may be from Quebec, this weird French speaking Province in which I live) is yet another living proof.
And I'm not even judging Master coaching. Because there, it's completely discouraging.
We have about 200 swimmers in the program. Which compares in number with a Squad I regularly train with.
And it compares to a few squads I can think of. Numbers are there. Swimming is very popular here up North. Bloooody freaking frustrating Parents volunteers committees, those who vote on Salaries (among other crucial things) are what I believe to be the bigger part of the problem. And it's not about to change. Vicious circle. Any solution?
Anyway, I am absolutely pleased to see that these organizations work well for you in California. If there's one person that could confirm that such structures exist here in Canada, it would be Lindsay. If he's reading, I'd love to hear about his take.
