One of my favorite swim coaches was fired yesterday. This is the second time I have watched him be fired. Last time I switched swim teams to follow him. Now I'm just plain angry. The official word, which bty is thesame thing as last time, is "well they(the fired and the boss) still like each other but they just can't work together". Personally, it's lame. We, as teenagers/ students are always told to get over ourselves and get along, but two grown men can't work out their differences? It wouldn't be a big deal, except there are twenty kids who had this guy as a coach for 3 years now and there is the first big longcourse meet in a week and an half. So just drop us, your swimmers on a whim, but still say you care, but.
Not to mention that another well loved coach walked out earlier this year because the boss wouldn't give him what he wanted/deserved. Who's at fault in all of this? I don't know and am not likely to find out. All I know is we as a team are two coaches short and now are all torn up again. Some people can't believe this coach is gone and some are thrilled and spent their time badmouthing the fired coach yesterday. Why can't these people grow up?
PS: to those who may have read my previous blog, I am talking this over/ dealing with it with my swim buddies. I just felt like doing some xtra complaining to you!
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That's too bad. I unfortunately knkow from experience that having coaches fighting right before a big meet is not fun for anyone. It isn't good for all of the coaching staff, parents, and especially the athletes. The coaches on my summer swim team started fighting three days before our championship meet and really got us older kids discouraged. Do your coaches actually listen to you if you have a problem? One of my coaches has a huge ego and will send kids home or suspend them from practice if they go to him and ask him to lay off on the workouts. He made us swim 110x100's on New Years Day because the workout used to be 100x100's, but he said that we had to be better than all of the other schools and do more. None of the schools have a coach crazy enough to make their swimmers do that in the first place. He even made us swim 5000-7000 yard practices and then swim in a swim meet the same day with only a half hour break between the workout and the first race. Any ideas on what to do to get him to realize that he needs to let us take breaks every once in a while without getting suspended from the team?