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Post by fantom on Mar 20, 2013 15:57:33 GMT -6
For coaches of school teams: Do your players shower after practice?
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 20, 2013 15:59:55 GMT -6
Not once in my 4 years of Hs and 7 coaching
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Post by pirates2012 on Mar 20, 2013 16:19:03 GMT -6
every kid on the team last year I think showered after practice... and most showered after lifting in the morning.
In fact, I had to talk to some kids who were giving others a hard time about not showering
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 20, 2013 16:24:30 GMT -6
At my current school some kids choose to. At the school I started out at showers were mandatory, and you had to shake your position coach's hand before you left. If you didn't, you were going to hear about it the next day.
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 20, 2013 16:27:06 GMT -6
everywhere I have been the kids considered it to be "gay"
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 20, 2013 17:21:54 GMT -6
Most, depending on the availability of facilities. Sometimes it was mandatory, sometimes it was socially expected.
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Post by jackedup on Mar 20, 2013 17:57:08 GMT -6
At the school I just left they showered every day, multiple times a day. It was almost becoming too weird for me because they would fight to see who's first. They'd even skip class to go down and shower. It was just weird. At my new school, I'm going to make it mandatory that they get in the shower... even if they want to keep their boxers on. A cold shower after a 2-a-day practice is the closest thing I can get to an ice bath.
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Post by 42falcon on Mar 20, 2013 17:57:08 GMT -6
None of our kids shower at the school the locker room shower is a 1 man shower and then we have a gang style shower it's never been used. Even in the PE area no one uses it.
Funny in university we always used it. Not sure if it is an age & maturity deal or what.
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Post by next on Mar 20, 2013 17:59:03 GMT -6
Never
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Post by realdawg on Mar 20, 2013 18:00:09 GMT -6
At our school not 1 kid showers. If they do they wear their swimming trunks in the shower. Afraid of being called "gay". When I was in school they called you names if you didn't shower.
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Post by silkyice on Mar 20, 2013 18:15:55 GMT -6
At the school I just left they showered every day, multiple times a day. It was almost becoming too weird for me because they would fight to see who's first. They'd even skip class to go down and shower. It was just weird. At my new school, I'm going to make it mandatory that they get in the shower... even if they want to keep their boxers on. A cold shower after a 2-a-day practice is the closest thing I can get to an ice bath. So in the middle of the school day they would go down and shower and skip a class for no reason? One of the best decisions you ever made was to leave that school. LOL |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2013 18:57:28 GMT -6
At my new school, I'm actually not sure. Our facilities got a major remodeling and construction carried over into the school year. We went all of last season without a real lockerroom. At my previous schools, very few kids showered. Granted, a couple of these stops were co-op programs so due to transportation schedules, many kids wouldn't have had time to shower even if they wanted to.
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Post by emptybackfield on Mar 20, 2013 19:32:31 GMT -6
We held 5:30am workouts before school all last offseason and the kids were required to shower. If we got word of them not showering, it would result in an {censored} chewing and then some reinforcement. Some of them learned to overcome their fear of having to see another guy's crank in the shower. Now, it's no big deal to our players.
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Post by olinecoach61 on Mar 20, 2013 19:32:45 GMT -6
Never
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 20, 2013 19:42:49 GMT -6
I feel like it is borderline unethical to require a kid to shower
I could see parents throwing a fit... whine about poor body image, self esteem, and bullying
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Mar 20, 2013 19:48:56 GMT -6
Our situation (and the last school I was at was the same) is the complete opposite of what most of you describe. In fact, I have a difficult time getting them out of there. They will stay in for a half-hour if I don't go in and yell, turn lights on and off, etc. I am seriously considering having something where we can shut off hot water after 10 minutes or so.
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Post by emptybackfield on Mar 20, 2013 19:55:14 GMT -6
I feel like it is borderline unethical to require a kid to shower I could see parents throwing a fit... whine about poor body image, self esteem, and bullying Not near as unethical as it is to sit through 8 hours of class, with 32 other kids in a classroom, after sweating your balls off for 90 minutes. |
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Post by norcaldiaz on Mar 20, 2013 20:04:13 GMT -6
When I was in HS we showered every day. Underclassmen showered after PE class - it was mandatory - during the day and then again after practice. Not one person my age (I'm 27) that I know from another HS showered ever. Nor has anyplace I've coached.
Guess we were weird.
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Post by CoachHess on Mar 20, 2013 20:04:14 GMT -6
They will complain more about unsanitary environment when their kids gets ring worm or impetigo or something else.
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Post by fantom on Mar 20, 2013 20:45:17 GMT -6
We use our shower room as storage space.
When we had a long road trip and the kids had to shower they wore swim trunks. That seemed really weird.
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Post by gian3074 on Mar 20, 2013 20:57:46 GMT -6
When I played we rarely showered at all. The only exception was for long road games (we sometimes traveled nine hours for a game), so we were required to shower for those ones. No one wants to be on a bus for nine hours with someone who did not shower.
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Post by highball007 on Mar 20, 2013 20:59:11 GMT -6
In my experience it is a confidence thing. The senior class of 2011 really changed the culture in our school because they bought into what we were doing in the weight room as freshman and then by the end of their sophomore year they were bigger faster and stronger than the juniors and seniors. They started showering and then taking the starting jobs of the upper class men. When I was in HS graduated in 99' we had socks and jocks and towels that were washed daily for us at school. Everybody showered after practice and games. I would guess about 70% of the students showered after PE class as well.
Now days the kids use "Shower in a can"! They spray so much crap I between classes that the locker room starts to fog up.
I always talk to all my classes about showering and general hygiene at the start of the school year.
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Post by tigeroption on Mar 20, 2013 21:08:12 GMT -6
Sometime b/w when I got done playing and when I started coaching they must have sent out a memo, you no longer wear jocks and no longer shower after games/practices. Just put your school clothes back over your grimy self and shower at home.
The older kids do shower after weights during the school day at least.
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Post by tgun25 on Mar 20, 2013 21:52:05 GMT -6
The whole "if you shower you're gay" thing is really sad.
I'd say most of our players shower. They walk in with a towel in one hand and their other hand is cupped over their junk. Whatever.
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Post by coachweav88 on Mar 21, 2013 4:42:15 GMT -6
One school I was at had some problems in the past with MRSA outbreaks. They required players to shower for that reason
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Post by coachjd on Mar 21, 2013 5:28:13 GMT -6
Former school was probably 50/50 with kids showering. New school we have the majority of our kids showering.
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Post by rwb32497 on Mar 21, 2013 5:50:41 GMT -6
We have over 40 private stalls with curtains on each one and our kids do not shower. We have a few but probrbaly less than 8 that take advantage of our nice facilities.
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Post by newhope on Mar 21, 2013 6:31:55 GMT -6
Years ago, almost everybody showered. Then they began to shower in their underwear. Then most stopped showering. At my last school, a few football players showered, in their underwear but the wrestlers almost all showered, and without underwear. The football players thought they were weird. At my present school, no one showers, ever. It's a cultural thing that varies a little from school to school, but has definitely changed over time.
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 21, 2013 6:49:01 GMT -6
we're between 'most' and 'few', probably about 50/50. I marked 'few' b/c we have a chunk that never even go near it.
Of the ones that shower, we have a smattering of those that wear boxers, some that use the 'one handed cup' method, and a couple that walk around buck nekkid for 1/2 an hour.
And why is it that the last ones off the field, the last ones to turn in their wash pin; are the ones that take 45 minute showers?
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 21, 2013 7:11:05 GMT -6
I feel like it is borderline unethical to require a kid to shower I could see parents throwing a fit... whine about poor body image, self esteem, and bullying Just say one acronym when they start throwing that fit- MRSA. Keeping parts of your flesh trumps self esteem. |
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