Kids on my team don’t respect my autority

Not post about it on LetsRun

Challenge the ringleader to a chili cookoff where you use their parents as the main ingredient in the dish before you feed it to him.

In all seriousness, the problem seems to be that you take yourself too seriously. I'm going to guess that the position of captain was just given to you by your coach. Just that fact alone isn't going to make your teammates respect you or see you as a leader. If you want your teammates to respect you, you have to lead by example and not get so uptight about this kind of stuff that you post about it anonymously on Let's Run. Just be a normal guy and make sure that you're working hard.

Just let it be. Let the coach handle it

Bring a wooden stick to practice and beat people with it.

Masturbate them.

XC_Captain wrote:

So, as the subject says, the kids on my team don’t respect my authority as captain. They started a hashtag for use in our group chat #notmycaptain. They also refuse to call me their captain or listen to any directions I give. Some kids even have started to call a kid who isn’t a captain their captain and listening to him instead of me. My question is what should I do to make sure they respect me?

I'm european, so maybe I'm just unfamiliar with the concept of XC-captains, so bear with me..

Isn't XC running basically a bunch of individuals running from a to b as far as they can and then get scored both individually and as a team? (Like the World & European XC championships)

So what authority do you want? That you give them orders and they*ll obey you like you're a drill sargeant?

I just don't understand why a runner would want the other kids to call him captain...

You remind me of Cartman in southpark: "RESPECT MY AUTORITAAAAAY!!!

Nah, thinking about it, I've decided that you're not real, because surely no real person can be so deluded as to expect being called "captain" in a high school XC-team...

That leaves troll...

Name wrote:

Just let it be. Let the coach handle it

Worst advice ever . Coaches want captains who are problem solvers not problem creators . Bring two goons to practice and have them beat the snot out of the ringleader, after they are done , look over the rest of the team and ask “ Any other biatch wanna piece of me?”

Hey, if you can’t rule by respect , rule from fear .” ☠️☠️☠️

Hey Captain a$$weed, you suck!!

Hahahaaa. Now we respect you even less. Nobody needs a captain.

Beat it. You’re not the captain. Dik.

Why do you need a captain for a xc team?

we never had captains, we just ran...... wrote:

Why do you need a captain for a xc team?

Why would communists need leaders?

XC_Captain wrote:

So, as the subject says, the kids on my team don’t respect my authority as captain. They started a hashtag for use in our group chat #notmycaptain. They also refuse to call me their captain or listen to any directions I give. Some kids even have started to call a kid who isn’t a captain their captain and listening to him instead of me. My question is what should I do to make sure they respect me?

A respected captain does help. A team captain who is respected by her/his teammates helps the coach sell the coach's philosophy to team. Were you appointed by the head coach? Were you voted in by her teammates? How fast do you race 5K XC? Do you get good grades? Are there baseball players, basketball players and wrestlers on XC team just using XC for general fitness? Are you one of the three fastest XC runners on your team?

1- the head coach appointed me

2-5K XC High 16:40

3- yes I get good grades

4-there are a lot of kids from other teams just on the XC team because their coaches make them

5- second fastest on team

I'm cooler and more popular with ladies. While I'm slower, your emaciated 16:40 running gauntness is unappealing.

Do you even lift?

XC_Captain wrote:

give us some more details wrote:

A respected captain does help. A team captain who is respected by her/his teammates helps the coach sell the coach's philosophy to team. Were you appointed by the head coach? Were you voted in by her teammates? How fast do you race 5K XC? Do you get good grades? Are there baseball players, basketball players and wrestlers on XC team just using XC for general fitness? Are you one of the three fastest XC runners on your team?

1- the head coach appointed me

2-5K XC High 16:40

3- yes I get good grades

4-there are a lot of kids from other teams just on the XC team because their coaches make them

5- second fastest on team

I was a high school XC co-captain my junior and senior seasons. My hs XC team had a fairly soft policy to letter. A remember a JV guy used to want to try to bust my b@lls and attempt to degrade me. Some of the guys sent to XC team by coaches from other sports ... . I understand. Loud mouth slacker JV guys. Pull one of the biggest mouth JV agitators off to the side and tell him that XC is important for many of the guys and you do not want him to bring down the team. You cannot make the baseball players, basketball players, golfers or westlers fall in love with XC, but they need to be respectful to the varsity guys. I know those guys from other sports are most likely physically larger. No matter. Pull the biggest agitator off to the side. Your coach appointed you captain for a reason. Those loud mouth JV guys can ruin a team if not checked.

XC_Captain wrote:

So, as the subject says, the kids on my team don’t respect my authority as captain. They started a hashtag for use in our group chat #notmycaptain. They also refuse to call me their captain or listen to any directions I give. Some kids even have started to call a kid who isn’t a captain their captain and listening to him instead of me. My question is what should I do to make sure they respect me?

Many runners read letsrun. You have given enough information that your team can easily identify who you are. You can be ridiculed for this post.

The good news is that this is just a made up story, so you don't have to worry! Nice troll 8/10.

Maybe they would respect your authority if you could spell "authority."

Kid said he's a 16:4x 5K XC runner and he's second fastest on the team. That sounds like dozens of guys. O.P. most likely altered his P.B. a bit. The guys on JV do not know exactly how fast the top varsity runners are racing.

XC_Captain wrote:

So, as the subject says, the kids on my team don’t respect my authority as captain. They started a hashtag for use in our group chat #notmycaptain. They also refuse to call me their captain or listen to any directions I give. Some kids even have started to call a kid who isn’t a captain their captain and listening to him instead of me. My question is what should I do to make sure they respect me?

Sorry, but you aren’t the captain. You are weak and the other kids know it.

Your coach made a bad decision.