Does it Creep you out a little when the coach SHOWERS with the team?

Why does your team shower together? Just go home.

I'd love to have Juli Henner shower with us.

http://guhoyas.cstv.com/sports/m-track/mtt/henner_juli00.html

Why does your team shower together? Just go home.

how about this wrote:

Why does your team shower together? Just go home.

Tough to argue with that logic.

if he ever tells you that since you already have your clothes off that it would be a good time for a massage don't listen to him.

And it isn't normal to wash the other guys on the team either.

I wont be there wrote:

if he ever tells you that since you already have your clothes off that it would be a good time for a massage don't listen to him.

And it isn't normal to wash the other guys on the team either.

That's good advice.

Go home and shower.

crapoli wrote:

I wont be there wrote:

if he ever tells you that since you already have your clothes off that it would be a good time for a massage don't listen to him.

And it isn't normal to wash the other guys on the team either.

That's good advice.

Go home and shower.

Yeah, because why would you want to use a shower in the locker room like other normal athletes? No wonder everyone else thinks distance runners are freaks.

Why do you guys shower together in the first place? All you skinny boys with your short-shorts on showering together after a run. The fact that your coach also showers with you just adds to the wierdness. Is your coach's last name Faltasiek?

Get real wrote:

Yeah, because why would you want to use a shower in the locker room like other normal athletes? No wonder everyone else thinks distance runners are freaks.

What, do the tennis and baseball coaches shower with their athletes, too?

I could understand swimmers showering together. Football and hockey too, since you keep your bulky equipment in your school lockers.

But for track, tennis, baseball, soccer, wrestling, and any other sport in which you take your uniform home to wash it, just shower at home.

Hugh G. Rekshun wrote:

Get real wrote:

Yeah, because why would you want to use a shower in the locker room like other normal athletes? No wonder everyone else thinks distance runners are freaks.

What, do the tennis and baseball coaches shower with their athletes, too?

Love your screen name.I agree a coach showering with the team is a little creepy, but most of the posters seem terrified at the mere thought of showering in the presence of other men, talk about inferiority complexes. Or perhaps latent homosexual desires they are trying desperately to suppress.

At my h.s., for xc and track they washed our stuff for us.

Well, at least the OP did not say that the coach pisses on them like Bowerman used to do. Still, very creepy. Don't the coaches have their own facilities?

my first euro xc race featured showers at the host sports club afterwards. imagine my surprise to find out the showers were co-ed.

You would be doing the coach, school, and team a favor by letting the athletic director or another school official that you feel uncomfortable with this. As you're not actually accusing him of anything, it's OK to do it anonymously if you feel awkward bringing it up in person.

I'm an adult who's involved with a number of youth programs that require youth protection training. Among the standard policies, for the protection of both the adults and youth, are:

- Two deep adult leadership (sounds like there's not another adult there)

- Respect of privacy. The Boy Scout rule is specifically: Adult leaders must respect the privacy of youth members in situations such as changing clothes and taking showers at camp, and intrude only to the extent that health and safety require. Adults must protect their own privacy in similar situations.

By going into the shower with children (no offense ... I'm just considering it from the eyes of the law) he could potentially be setting himself and the school up for a heap of trouble if he's actually accused of something, rightly or wrongly.

Bowerman used to pee on people?

jim h wrote:

my first euro xc race featured showers at the host sports club afterwards. imagine my surprise to find out the showers were co-ed.

So you were showering with a bunch of female runners? That is AWESOME.

This brings up an interesting dynamic that I've noticed over the years. When I was a runner in the 70's we would routinely shower after practice together buck naked (albeit without the coach). We also did our fair share of "streaking". (If you don't know what this is, buy that record called The Streak by some novelty singer that Ronco might have signed years ago.) Also when there was a sauna available we all piled in naked. Nobody seemed that uncomforatable with their naked bodies. Oh and all this and I'm still straight if you can believe that...

So now I swim at the same time as an age group swim club. Now maybe swimmers are different then runners but I'm the only one naked in the showers.

It would seem that America is developing an unhealthy anxiety about nakedness. Clearly nakedness has become sexualized during Generation X and Y's time but why and by whom?

You also hear a lot of this unhealthy take on nakedness from a lot of letsrunners when they comment about covering up if you aren't a Brad Pitt/A Jolie look a like. Do you younger guys stress out about being naked? If so why?

Oh nevermind I think that I just got my answer...