A little update

So the new SWAT team is full.  That was fast.  Thus, 70 swimmers have left the YDC for SWAT.  Others have left for MSS or BAC.

I think -- just guessing -- well over 90% of these swim team members were also dues-paying members of the Y.  Sometimes, only the swimmer was a member (that's the case with my swimmer).  Often, the whole family was a member, paying dues.   I don't think there are many financial hardship cases on the swim team (I'm not sure, but I don't think there are).

So the Y has lost revenue -- monthly dues revenue -- from these departed families.  They have had to reimburse families who left because of the new schedule that didn't work for them.  They have lost a willing pool (apologies for the pun) of volunteers.  The swim team in the past has held a swim-a-thon to benefit kids at the Y.  I wonder if that will go on.  And as I said earlier, some of the people who left include admin refs and starter refs, critical cogs for running a meet.  I don't see how the Dane Co Y can run a meet now.

And three coaches are gone.  One was let go (he's been down at Winter Nationals coaching two stellar (former) Y swimmers).  Two others have left this week.

There was going to have been a meeting on Sunday for remaining families to see about salvaging things.  That's been cancelled, as it's obvious that people have voted with their feet.

On the plus side, I guess, the pool isn't very full anymore.  The one at the west Y had mechanical issues this past week.  I think that's fixed now.