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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A full time masters swimming coach is pretty much non-existent in the Philly. I think that there is one and he is the only Philly coach you will see at meets. The other Masters programs are just an extension of a Y or age group program or where I usually swim, an extension of a college swimming program. so, the coaches run Masters practices an a extension of their current positions. Let me tell you though.
The profession is in a serious transition, a serious turn. I myself now sometimes think about getting back to sports full time, in fact, it's more a matter of when now.
I may risk being judged by Paul Smith, but there's no way I'll get back to this profession is my salary isn't at least the same as what I earn now. New thing though now is that you can add more services, more sources of revenue. Web coaching, product sales, private coaching, all that can easily add up to something interesting, especially for a triathlon coach that's a swim coach too.
But I shall never ever trust a parents' committee to vote on my salary. I hate parents' committee like you wouldn't believe. There's not enough professionals in the profession. Not enough business men, people that can think revenue more than expense. Too often too much like last year, which was like last year, which was like last year.
A full time masters swimming coach is pretty much non-existent in the Philly. I think that there is one and he is the only Philly coach you will see at meets. The other Masters programs are just an extension of a Y or age group program or where I usually swim, an extension of a college swimming program. so, the coaches run Masters practices an a extension of their current positions. Let me tell you though.
The profession is in a serious transition, a serious turn. I myself now sometimes think about getting back to sports full time, in fact, it's more a matter of when now.
I may risk being judged by Paul Smith, but there's no way I'll get back to this profession is my salary isn't at least the same as what I earn now. New thing though now is that you can add more services, more sources of revenue. Web coaching, product sales, private coaching, all that can easily add up to something interesting, especially for a triathlon coach that's a swim coach too.
But I shall never ever trust a parents' committee to vote on my salary. I hate parents' committee like you wouldn't believe. There's not enough professionals in the profession. Not enough business men, people that can think revenue more than expense. Too often too much like last year, which was like last year, which was like last year.
