This Wespeak is not directed towards everyone who uses the pool for recreational purposes. The vast majority of these individuals respect in-season sports without complaint or any problems. The Wesleyan Diving team would like to thank you for your cooperation and understanding. This Wespeak is directed towards the Wesleyan Track & Field team (in particular the boys cross country team), who have no clue what is going on; can’t read a simple sign on a door; have little respect for other students, coaches, and faculty; and feel they can do whatever they want and don’t have to listen to anyone.
First and foremost, T&F team, we feel that your Wespeak entitled “Respect the Track & Field Team” is incredibly hypocritical. It is true that that the Wes community should respect in-season sports, just as you ask Eli to, yet you do not follow your own advice. You guys repeatedly use the pool all the time to jog while the diving team is practicing. You do this repeatedly without having consideration for any of the divers who are using the diving well to practice their dives! We have taken this lack of consideration for a while but it has become too much. We dealt with trying to perfect our dives without being distracted by you. However, one Saturday we had a really big meet against Colby and Bowdoin that also happened to be our last home meet and also parents’ weekend. It was a big day for us. Yet in the middle of our meet a few of you decided to jog in our diving well while the divers were diving! You not only disrespected the fact that a meet was going on but you also put no thought into the danger you were putting the divers (or yourselves) in by being in the way. (One diver from Colby was actually almost hitting the lane lines). Then when a diver asked you to move out of the diving well you guys refused. Our diving coach had to stop the meet to come over and ask you to remove yourselves from the pool. Then you continued to disrespect our coach by asking where you should go. As if it his problem that you guys aren’t allowed to jog in the water while a meet is going on. It’s not like when you guys have your track meets, we go and run alongside you distracting you.
Yet, now your team is asking for respect from the greater Wesleyan community. The diving team would like to say that before you go yelling at Eli about his lack of respect for the track and field team, maybe you should start thinking about the ways in which your own team is disrespectful. If what you’re asking for is respect and consideration, make sure you return it in kind.
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