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Yes, I have seen it MANY times as well - parents judge their own kids, coaches judge their own athletes. In these cases, the parent / coach judge cannot be the chief judge/meet ref. In talking to the parents about this - it is tough they said to do it, but they can do it (in one case a parent told me she will NOT judge a session with her own kid - but she is the exception).
Coaches judging their own athletes in my experience are fair, and perhaps a bit tough!

What is also interesting is we moved from a part of the country where I NEVER saw either of these cases happen, to a part of the country where I see it all the time!!
 
I'm at a YMCA, so the rules may be different. We have a coach at our gym who is a judge, and a mother to one of our optionals. She judges our team and her child at a large chunk of meets. She doesn't seem to inflate or deflate scores, as she is known to be a tougher judge in general. Most, if not all, of these meets are 1 panel judges.
 
I have to say for me the blur of supportive parennt vs tenth your kid judge. I just couldn't. My job is to be her soft place to fall not her judge. I just wouldn't. I write the check, drive and cheer.
 
During (old) L6 & L7, at several meets, my dd's coach's mother judged my dd's team's FX and beam. At first we were like, this will be awe-some!!!! But we learned to dread it. Her scoring of our team was brutal.
Yeah it's a cant win thing from my perspective.
 
We have coaches that are judges. They will judge their own gymnasts. Poor kids....

ROFL! Truth! Those poor kids. Our MAG coach is also the state high bar judge. He actually told one of his gymnasts after the state meet that he hated to give him the score he earned because the kid never worked that hard in the gym. LOL!

Of course, MAG meets are a completely different world. Our MAG head coach is notoriously late to meets. Another team's coach will generally jump in to warm the boys up and think nothing of it. That would never happen with the girls.
 
I think that most coaches who are judging their own athletes that it generally works out worse for those athletes. 1) Those coach/judges don't want to tarnish their reputations for either job by giving inflated scores to their own athletes and 2) Those coach/judges know exactly what their athletes' weaknesses and normal errors are, they are used to focusing on all those little details. They don't miss them. And they deduct for them.

Like I said, for my DS, his coach was always his toughest judge.
 
I think that most coaches who are judging their own athletes that it generally works out worse for those athletes. 1) Those coach/judges don't want to tarnish their reputations for either job by giving inflated scores to their own athletes and 2) Those coach/judges know exactly what their athletes' weaknesses and normal errors are, they are used to focusing on all those little details. They don't miss them. And they deduct for them.

Like I said, for my DS, his coach was always his toughest judge.
Again a multitude of reasons why it is JMO that it is a bad idea and shouldn't be allowed.

But clearly its JMO :D
 
I think it's important to remember that in a lot of areas of the country, if you couldn't use affiliated judges, you wouldn't have enough judges to cover a meet. In some areas/regions this might not be a problem. In others, if judges couldn't adjudicate their own athletes or children, finding enough judges for a meet would be darn near impossible. It's not ideal to judge your own student or your own child, but I suspect it's allowed because not allowing it would put a very heavy burden on meet directors and host clubs trying to fill those spots.
 

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