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- Jan 28, 2022
Hi all!
My daughter has a head coach, but because he’s so busy, he also assembled a “team” with two other coaches for her. The team was amazing! We couldn’t have been more thrilled and she was progressing with speed for the past six months. Exponential.
Last month the two supporting coaches left our rink and moved to another rink nearby. I was upset but still willing to travel the extra distance because they’re really that good. However, our head coach has been dissuading this. He doesn’t like that rink, thinks they’re poachers, etc. He doesn’t seem to dislike the two coaches at all and is still friendly with them, but said that he “wants to keep it all under one roof”. He wasn’t on the ice during her sessions with them, so it sounds more like fear of poaching. He mentioned spies from the other rink, etc. I’m not joking.
He’s tried to hook us up with other coaches, but…no comparison. One is so old he can’t help her jump (lovely guy tho!) and the other can’t make time for her because she watches her grandchild. They came out of retirement because they were bored, apparently. Most of the other coaches that compare with the first two are too busy.
I love our head coach, but I don’t like that he seems willing to compromise her growth for his own personal/historical reasons. I’m not naive, I know it’s a business (and we are excellent customers) and yes, I know all about coaches sensitivity to poaching, but it seems unfair that he’s the one who put our team together, and we trusted him, when we asked him to be her head coach, politely fired two other coaches she was working with, and took his suggestion of the pair who left, but now he doesn’t trust us? Hmmm….
Ps: not an issue about why they left rink. It’s a very drama filled rink according to basically everyone.
My daughter has a head coach, but because he’s so busy, he also assembled a “team” with two other coaches for her. The team was amazing! We couldn’t have been more thrilled and she was progressing with speed for the past six months. Exponential.
Last month the two supporting coaches left our rink and moved to another rink nearby. I was upset but still willing to travel the extra distance because they’re really that good. However, our head coach has been dissuading this. He doesn’t like that rink, thinks they’re poachers, etc. He doesn’t seem to dislike the two coaches at all and is still friendly with them, but said that he “wants to keep it all under one roof”. He wasn’t on the ice during her sessions with them, so it sounds more like fear of poaching. He mentioned spies from the other rink, etc. I’m not joking.
He’s tried to hook us up with other coaches, but…no comparison. One is so old he can’t help her jump (lovely guy tho!) and the other can’t make time for her because she watches her grandchild. They came out of retirement because they were bored, apparently. Most of the other coaches that compare with the first two are too busy.
I love our head coach, but I don’t like that he seems willing to compromise her growth for his own personal/historical reasons. I’m not naive, I know it’s a business (and we are excellent customers) and yes, I know all about coaches sensitivity to poaching, but it seems unfair that he’s the one who put our team together, and we trusted him, when we asked him to be her head coach, politely fired two other coaches she was working with, and took his suggestion of the pair who left, but now he doesn’t trust us? Hmmm….
Ps: not an issue about why they left rink. It’s a very drama filled rink according to basically everyone.
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