Here's a selection of the messages being left
The swim team at marietta would do better if the younger new swimmers were not going to a labor camp... I myself have talked to some and they all are quitting because they say they dont like to get yelled at
if your child in not in the top 2 or 3 in that age group they are totally ignored by the coaches and looked upon as a total waste of their time,
In turn, the coaches feel the pressure to make the kids succeed. No one is having fun.
The Marietta Marlins will be a thing of the past if the team combines with Pburg. What a shame!!!!!
Bill did not coach to boost his ego, he cared for his athletes and they knew he was always there for them. His teams were big and the kids and parents were happy. Tom Phillips does not have the same philosophy. Tom is only interested in feeding his ego. (Tom's EGO is a hungry BEAST!)
He is even trying to take over WV high school swimming. He is a cancer to the sport and should be removed before the sport dies. It is All about TOM. Al Miller the Marietta CEO is completely supportive of Tom's ways and now wonders why his team has diminished.
Lots of opinions about the status of the program, and some insight into why it is crippling.
Should the Register allow it, I think this story deserves a follow-up.
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Haha, who knows.
I was swimmer on the team for a few back before the new coach may in it was like a family to me. i drove an hour each way to come swim for the best coach that i can think of. noe the team is strait down the tubes. It is now like a life or death like than as a sport. All the kids need to be included of just the ones that do good that weekend. I love this team and it is being pulled down by one man that really is not all that like though out the YMCA swimming Comunity.
I used to be a swimmmer when Bill Bauer was coach for the Marlins. I loved to go to swimming meets to compete and do my best. I knew that no matter the results, he would be glad that I tried. The team was like family. He cared for the swimmers and encouraged them do do their best even if they didn't win. I couldn't think of any better coach than Bill.
If the new coach pushed swimmers with harsh words and shouting with no positive encouragements. He should rethink his coaching stragety or replace a new one.
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