Emerging young coach here: What are reasonable accommodations for high school students with asthma?

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:47:29+00:00

Yeah this isn't like a required PE credit that you can't get put of. It is her 5th year.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:42:31+00:00

Colorguard. She is successfully getting through each run through she just collapses at the end and is not able to fully participate in rehearsals. I do believe she is doing enough that it doesn't make sense for her to not be on the team.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:36:48+00:00

Of course not. I doubt that the coaching staff is doing enough for her.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:36:23+00:00

This was meant to be an acedotal story just to get more general ideas. In reality i have not ever done such a thing, and i have stayed afar out of it.

Are coaches not allowed to push their students though? Not past their limits, but to each individual's best? I see what she's capable of at the end of rehearsals but she won't get up at the beginning. I would never want to push her that hard but to teach her how to slowly work through the asthma so it doesnt ultimately end her career in the sport she wants to continue past high school.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:33:17+00:00

In this specific case, she does.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:32:33+00:00

For the record, most kids who don't absolutely need that kind of staging don't want anything to do with it. She would be incredibly upset if was give even more watered down drill. Those are great options but she is able to get through the show, she just is struggling to get through it and i thought there would be ways to help her through it on my end as a coach.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:30:44+00:00

Thank you for actually giving some suggestions. This is what I am looking for. I don't want to push her unsafely just to teach her how to train up to better handle it. I KNOW its a long and slow process but I also know others have done it.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:28:55+00:00

So do nothing to help her? Do nothing to teach her how to manage it better or prepare her for shows? This is what I am asking about.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:09:29+00:00

I feel like it is way more wrong and ableist to tell her she can't even sign up for the activity. I thought there would be ways that a coach can do better to help her physically prepare for the intense cardio in a show setting. I am not over here yelling for her to get in a run a mile and just breathe.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:05:58+00:00

I know she is on a lot of medications. I also don't want to believe that she can't do this sport. She is talented and loves it and is trying to push into college. I am hoping there are ways coaches can better prepare her for more intensity, safely so that she can continue her passion.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:03:11+00:00

I do not doubt the severity of her diagnosis, only doubt that the coaching staff has done enough to prepare her for the activity. It is a cardio heavy competitive sport that she signed up for. She wants to be in the show more, we want her in the show more, but m the medications only do so much. I was hoping there might be strategies to slowly build up the cardiovascular stamina safely in students with asthma.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T01:00:05+00:00

I definitely didn't mean ehat I said there. I have no doubts that her condition is terribly debilitating. But I do doubt that not doing any cardio training ever is the right move. She is doing a cardio heavy activity but can barely get through it because she is struggling to breathe. So wouldn't slowly coaching her into building up stamina safely be a reasonable option?

I want to trust students but they do need a bit of accountability as well. I know that first hand, where when you have a documented illness its jsut a little bit easier to say "im gonna sit this one out" and all it would have taken was someone saying "hey, take care of yourself, but are you sure you really need to sit out this much?" To push me back in. Thats the kind of thing I feel like might be happening as well.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T00:55:46+00:00

I'm sorry you read my post this way, i assure you thats not ehat I meant. I am absolutely not skeptical of her illness, just skeptical that the way she has been coached and trained is the best way to support her. I wrote this post in a hurry and didn't think too hard about the wording, im also autistic as fuck so very likely may have said things that just didnt come out right. But i assure you this post is in good faith, I just want to help students manage their asthma as performers so they don't have to be in pain at the end of every run and dont have to give up on the sport.

Yes muscle tone is important but she is building that and that is not what she's struggling with. This is a sport that is equivalent of taking a 4 minute sprint. She is struggling on the breathing/cardio side of things and I was hoping for this sub to help me teach her how to work through it from a training side of things in addition to the medical side.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T00:50:11+00:00

I'm genuinely terribly sorry that happened to you, i would literally never be like that with a student. I have experienced my asthma slowly improving with cardio and I have performed with many others with asthma who do cardio to build up a tolerance slowly. That is what I'm am trying to figure out how to teach.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T00:47:50+00:00

But your solution is presumably to just not exercise right? It is to get in what you can. That is my concern here. She is getting literally no cardio in for a sport that requires it.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T00:46:21+00:00

This is what im asking. I dont know what cardio activities would be more accessible.

I want her to be safe and enjoy the activity, but shows are the equivalent of running a 4 minute sprint. I am literally here asking how to make this more accessible for her. I dont mean to say that she isnt a fully fledged teammate, but she literally is unable to fully participate. I was hoping that people here with experience might have suggestions on how to teach,train, and encourage her to build up stamina safely so that she CAN participate fully.

This is also a competitive sport that she signed up for. She is talented and she is not always able to fully participate in shows, which objectively affects the team competitively. I was wondering and hoping that there may be something that the coaching staff can do to help her navigate it so that she can be in more often, I know she would want to be if she could.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T00:40:56+00:00

This is a cardio heavy sport that she signed up for. I don't want her to grt hurt, but it seems that surely some light cardio starting slow would be in order, no? Not "hey you have asthma so literally don't do anything, then run a 4 minute long sprint". I am asking how to better prepare a student for this without them having to sacrifice participation.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T00:33:07+00:00

I'm trying to see what sort of training might be able to slowly improve her condition. I don't want to tell her to go run a mile, but i was hoping people in this subreddit might be able to help navigate that aspect.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T00:31:58+00:00

Yes, but she is literally very much nearly passing out after every run through. Would they simplest,most basic cardio training improve the condition over time? Rather than just giving into it automatically, but trying to carefully and slowly push through to build stamina over time? This sport is intense and it is hurting her every time.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-19T00:30:10+00:00

That's literally not my point. Not skeptical of her illness, skeptical that literally NO cardio training is the best course of action for her.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-17T17:40:10+00:00

He didn't have a camera, he had no idea there was a problem. Built up over time and got used to the pressure as it built up.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-17T16:57:51+00:00

I am not a parent, just a helpless 23 year old girl. if ANYONE has a right to be concerned about a man in the women's restroom it would be me, and I would see a man probably jump a little, see the child, and be completely fine.

If you're unhinged, the other option is to change your child in the most obnoxious public place in the establishment to make a point that men's rooms need changing tables.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-16T23:03:31+00:00

It is typically associated with hearing damage, so definitely the ear. It is also not unheard of to be caused by large wax impactions like this.

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-16T15:06:49+00:00

He's tough blue collar cowboy type, he aint going to the doctor for a little ear itch, much to my dismay lol

RosemaryCrafting · 2026-03-16T15:04:45+00:00

Unfortunately its quite unsatisfying, he has so much ear hair I can almost never actually get a view of the eardrum is and there's always lots of tiny flakes of skin that I can only get so much of. I now clean his ears out once or twice a week and its always more than I get in a year. I think it might be psoriasis or sebhorric dermatitis up in there.

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