[cst_2014_board] Re: coach follow up and state qual
- From: "Andy and Heidi Mechtenberg" <mechtenberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cst_2014_board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 19:44:35 -0600
Congratulations Blake! That's awesome. Perhaps enough boys that age will
be able to field good relay teams as well!
Yes thanks Carol for taking that conversation on - on the spot. As we all
should remember, sometimes there are things happening before or behind the
scenes that we are not aware of that lead up to the "issue". Not that the
abrupt manner was appropriate (curse words or not - really?), but I
understand the frustration from the coach if this had been mentioned several
times.
Andy and I were talking tonight, and one definite FAST cultural behavior is
to watch the races from the sidelines. I also saw Rob and his assistant
coaches from Paragon doing the same thing - and this is prevalent at high
school meets. While this is a huge improvement from Heather's wanderings
last year, for Collindale culture, there could be one coach (trading off)
near the blocks to give a pep talk to kids before their races. This might
be important for kids near a qualification time, or for those kiddos not
remembering the order of strokes in IM or medley relays.
One of them could also be helping the little kids down to the end of the
pool during relays - or delegate (and train) the Jr. Coaches to do this.
The coaches must also must teach the first 3 little kids to get out of the
pool during relays, but the last to stay in the pool until the full race is
complete. I would hate to be disqualified at City or State because kids
linger in the pool (that happened to my daughter at State - they never did
that again!). It's not just with our team - I've seen it with all the other
teams too. And it's just good sportsmanship to stay in the pool until the
race is finished.
I'm sure you'll also touch on the issue of kids advocating for themselves,
but not being heard. It could be hard to remember the request, but perhaps
some method for jotting these things down to remember later?
Good luck everyone tomorrow! I'll be thinking of you as we hammer out our
end-of-fiscal-year bill paying and billing!
-Heidi
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[mailto:cst_2014_board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Hutton
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 2:01 PM
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Subject: [cst_2014_board] Re: coach follow up and state qual
Carol -
Go Blake! Cool!
Thanks for following up on the Ashlyn issue. This does give a little more
background to the issue. In particular, if this had been mentioned multiple
times... We will still touch on it tomorrow in the group to see if 24 hours
have any additional thoughts.
We may want to tweak our documentation next year to either call out only
Collindale caps at meets, or only Collindale or generic (aka not other team)
caps, ... ??
Thanks, John
On 7/1/2014 11:53 AM, CAROL CLEAR wrote:
Quick update before tomorrows meeting. I got an email response from coaches
regarding Ashlyn. They wanted me to pull them aside this am and talk in
person. I let them know we would like to touch on it in tomorrows meeting
but they wanted to talk it over this am.
Amanda wanted details of who it was that came to me (Joyanne), had I talked
to Ashlyn's parents (no) was there anyone else involved (Ella & Preea).
It came about when they had told Ashlyn multiple times to not where her
Vortex cap (issue being more that is was another team rather than just a fun
cap), They felt it was important to know if it came from Ashlyn's parents or
another parent stepping in, in other words, in someone else's business.
Ashlyn was not in the water for a medical reason (that they are aware of)
and not for any reason to do with the cap talk. They don't see an issue if
Ashlyn is ok and they haven't heard from the parents. Amanda said it's not
like she was using a curs word or something. Mackenzie emphasized
maintaining open communication so there are no misunderstandings.
Also, I looked at the last meet results and see Blake Hubert as our
additional Gold cap swimmer!
Carol
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