The pool's swim coach is about to retire after 30 years. He's famous for one thing, paying attention the ones with "potential", and ignoring everyone else.
Ever since I was 8, I went to swimming classes with him, but I never learned to swim because he would only pay attention to the taller boys while he left the rest of us to playing in the pool. I was in swim classes for 3 years, but I never learned to swim. I was too short for him to waste his time on me.
My mom took me to another pool, and on one season this coach taught me to swim, but he left to a better job.
I kept swimming on my own with a lot of discipline. By 17, I was reaching competitive times. It was then the coach who always ignored me asked to join the team. But I said NO.
For 7 years I've been competing independently even against the team from the pool I swim at. Sometimes I've won at a some meets more medald than the rest of the team from pool I swim at combined.
He's retiring, what should I do?
2007-08-07
18:32:11
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