Coach

I’m so upset. Recently ive just come down with a really bad sinuous infection. I’m a competitive swimmer in the middle of swim season though. So can’t really take any time off. My normal coaches are good friends with one of our life guards. This life guard (when ever he’s on shift) tries to act like he’s our coach bossing us around and just putting others down. With the sinuous infection I can’t handle the pressure of the deep water to well and am modifying so I can still swim but won’t be diving or doing flip turns. The first thing he did once he arrived was try to yell at me for not doing flip turns. And huffing when I tried to explain. About 10 minutes later and went “ (teammates name) shouldn’t you be in the other lane?” In a pretty patronizing tone. Immediately trying to jump to my teammates deference I in turn said “(his name) you haven’t been here in a few weeks we’ve all improved!” And just as I was going to tack on a “we missed you” he responds with “I was just congratulating her” cutting me off again when I went to go add the we missed you for a second time he says the congratulating thing again stares at me and walks away. A but miffed I continue on with practice. About an hour later when my head is actively killing me from the pressure, he was once again not on stand. Just standing at the other lanes providing seemingly helpful comments to others. I was almost to the point of tears because of how bad my head hurt. Once I gathered the strength to lift my head from the gutter I spoke up and asked “(his name) could you grab my water for me?”It must have gotten knocked over at some point and rolled a bit away not even a foot from where he was standing. Instead of reaching down and grabbing it and taking the few steps to set it at the side of the pool deck for me, he stares at me and says “you didn’t say please, I’m not going to grab that”my 25 year old life guard chose to tell a 16 year old crying girl that he wouldn’t grab her water and to “swim before I tell your coaches you stopped” i managed to force my way through another 100 yards of swimming while sobbing because of the pain, before my head coach said we could all be done for the day. I’ve been at home super upset and still crying since. Am I right to be upset? Or am I just over reacting bc of the pain?

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Ren Sports September 26, 2025 at 5:34 pm 0 0