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Not all teams even within an organization function the same or have the experience that leads to the issues you are describing.Daughter is starting 10u travel with a new team this season. The main reason we decided not to stay with her previous team is because we didn’t feel the coaches were skilled in developing any of the players, including their own daughters. Good people, just not good coaches/teachers.
In addition, the past year was full of miscommunication and relying on word of mouth to figure out when changes were made to the calendar, because the calendar itself was never updated. For all the parents, it was like pulling teeth trying to get simple questions answered, and they often never were answered in the end.
Our new team is part of a much larger organization, one that at first glance seemed like we wouldn’t have these same organizational issues. Unfortunately, so far it almost seems worse. I’m 100% confident that the coaching will be superior and that game-wise, this is where we want to be.
My question is, is this normal? Are “organized sports” actually a complete mess most of the time in terms of administrative support? Coming from a strong business background, it’s kind of mind blowing to me that these organizations have operated like this so long . Nothing is streamlined, there are no SOP’s. Everything just runs willy nilly.
Like I said, we’re happy with the sports side of it, which obviously is most important, but as a type-A business woman, the back-end stuff has been maddening!
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And then it's the rest of us that are called control freaks because we communicate and organize too much. Oh well...If the lack of organization is causing parents problems then somebody needs to say something. Some people are just that way and don’t even realize it..