Some areas don't have many Saturday meets. Weekly Saturday meets would definitely add to the total. It is usually instead of Saturday practice, though. In my experience, they only take 12+ hours if you're driving an hour or two. Most of our meets are 5-6 hours plus an extra hour on each end for travel/loading/unloading. All of our varsity meets are limited to 3 entries, though, so we're never sitting through hours of heats.
Most of us have real jobs teaching HS, police, fire, govt. etc. The local Lions, American Legion may donate $100 Honorarium at Christmas time. For the love of the Sport,
Some areas don't have many Saturday meets. Weekly Saturday meets would definitely add to the total. It is usually instead of Saturday practice, though. In my experience, they only take 12+ hours if you're driving an hour or two. Most of our meets are 5-6 hours plus an extra hour on each end for travel/loading/unloading. All of our varsity meets are limited to 3 entries, though, so we're never sitting through hours of heats.
Same here. Our invites are 5-6 hours long. we typically do a Friday night, leaving around 2pm, and returning home around 11:30 or midnight. That's an hour drive each way, arrive an 60 to 90 minutes early. Maybe stop somewhere for quick food on the way home.
We've had one Saturday so far. It was close to 7-7.5 hours. A bit on the longer side. There was a pentathlon meet within that one.
All of our head coaches (for all sports) get 78.84 per day for the duration of their season. Assistant Varsity coaches get 59.13 per day. Thats starting, there is an increase every year until year 14 now i believe as well
^^^ incorrect. I coached for a couple of seasons after college and did the math. Planning workouts, needy athletes, head-butting with other coaches, driving time and of course, all in-season Saturdays shot from sun-up to sun-down @ invitationals = .07 cents an hour. Was still a blast tho and will probably do it again for free after I retire.
again, I understand why people count the outside of practice/meets planning in their pay. But the way I figure it, the district doesn't even care if our sport does a good job. They're not paying us to plan. The pay would be the same for a sh!tty coach who just punches the clock. So I only count the hours when Im with the kids when I'm breaking down the hourly rate. That includes time on the bus.
Not my own drive time. Everybody has to drive to work. Well, everybody who doesn't work from home.
I was kidding. None of us in it for the $ anyway right?
Some areas don't have many Saturday meets. Weekly Saturday meets would definitely add to the total. It is usually instead of Saturday practice, .
One of the biggest changes I've seen on the scheduling side since the days when I ran. Back then every invitational was on a Saturday, and we had a dual/tri/quad meet during the week.
Saturday meets usually started around 9-10 and ended around 5 pm. The weekday meets would end late, but because it was only 3-4 teams max the number of heats was pretty small. I never saw 15 heats of the 100m or 200m like at the meets I work these days.
I make 10k and work 15 hours a week on average. I just work efficiently I guess.
A weekend Saturday track meet, from loading the bus and departing to unloading upon return, can typically take 13 or 14 hours. You're being disingenuous or you are really, really lazy. I've routinely put in 25 to 30 hours in a track week.
He is likely not even a coach. His post a few above this one gives it away. He brags about his accomplishments (which are likely fictitious) and then he tries to claim others are not working at it, but just "thinking about it". A real coach would not talk like that. A petty runner who hates his coach would, but not an actual coach.