Broadcasting Life

first day of summer BASS

so, as the title may suggest, today was the first day of me coaching for BASS full time. it was interesting. so the older kids stumbled in, very much tired and not awake. we had a good practice and we had fun. lots of stroke drills and getting to know the kids. then the little, little kids came. there are 3 groups in BASS, the age group kids (the older kids as i call them), developmental (the little kids from the spring session...they all know how to swim...just need some help with strokes) and the novice group ( i find out that these are the LITTLE kids). now this is fine and dandy until you find out by chance happening that the LITTLE kids CAN'T SWIM. first off, this is a swim team. the requirements should be that you have to be able to swim 25 yard freestyle, at the minimum. i had to get in the water today and teach 20 children how to swim. this is not YMCA swim lessons people! one parent got mad at me because i told the children to swim 50 yards freestyle, well, her child jumped in and started crying because she got her face wet and she ran over and said that her child has never had a swimming lesson before. another kid almost drowned halfway. good thing i had backup. i know that not anyone else was expecting this and the couple of board members that were there sympathized with me and the other coach and i think we are going to get this fixed. one of the board members that was helping with registration told parents who had asked if they could sign there child up even if they hadn't swam before that they could. grrrrrr... hello, if you can't swim, why should you be on swim team?! learn to swim the basics and we'll teach you the rest.

I AM A COACH. NOT A SWIMMING LESSONS INSTRUCTOR.

best part yet? meghan will be gone for the next two weeks. me and 60 some kids, woohoo! good thing not all at once. when i was done with the novice group the 2 board members that were there just looked at me and said, i think we will have to get you more back up. good thinking.