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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Probably best not to talk specifics about any one club, my intention was really to ask why a club that has a large number of swimmers, isn't under the thumb of an AG club, and has ample financial resources doesn't have coaching that would universally be regarded as excellent?
Perhaps many masters swimmers are quite satisfied with just getting a good workout. The impression I get though is that many masters swimmers would like to get more personal attention and advice from their coaches than they currently do. Perhaps it just costs too much to compete with AG clubs for good coaching skills. Perhaps most of the really good coaches want to work with up and coming kids that have a chance at greatness.
I've got to rest my hopes on coaches just needing more education and more tools that make it easier to do a better job.
It would be interesting to hear from coaches on what holds them back from doing as good a job as they would like.
Probably best not to talk specifics about any one club, my intention was really to ask why a club that has a large number of swimmers, isn't under the thumb of an AG club, and has ample financial resources doesn't have coaching that would universally be regarded as excellent?
Perhaps many masters swimmers are quite satisfied with just getting a good workout. The impression I get though is that many masters swimmers would like to get more personal attention and advice from their coaches than they currently do. Perhaps it just costs too much to compete with AG clubs for good coaching skills. Perhaps most of the really good coaches want to work with up and coming kids that have a chance at greatness.
I've got to rest my hopes on coaches just needing more education and more tools that make it easier to do a better job.
It would be interesting to hear from coaches on what holds them back from doing as good a job as they would like.
