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Speakers
Justin Carria - Macon, Georgia, 55-120 swimmers
Mike Goldbredt - Pennsylvania YMCA, 270 swimmers, 11,000 members
Chris Davis - Swim Atlanta 1500-1800 swimmers, 20,000 lessons/year
Coaches discussed the
various tasks and challenges involved with running their teams. It varied
tremendously with each team with size and structure seeming to be the deciding
factors.
Justin
Carria:
Did a majority of work himself, including coaching and administration. He has
challenges with lane structure. The concerns of blending his Junior Nats
qualifier with his other swimmers. Occasionally his Jr Nats swimmer has to
train on his own, in a lane by himself.
Practice structure:
- 1/week
lessons
- 2/week for 30
minutes
- Bronze
- Silver
- Gold
- Home School program
- Varsity program for
High School swimmers
- Discounts offered
for multiple swimmers.
Mike
Goldbredt:
Discussed selling morning practices to his middle school swimmers, runs 3/week
for 1-1.25 hours.
Checks report cards
to assure swimmers staying on task. Has found that morning swimmers get better
grades, and are more alert.
Does most of team
tasks, volunteers help with treasury.
Mike has a satellite
program at a local High School. He gets 3 ½ hours of daily pool time for
free. Has one head coach and three assistants. Mike handles the administration
part.
Practice structure:
From 1/week for 1 hour to 7/week for 2 hours.
Chris
Davis:
Manages 6-7 locations. Each location has a Senior Coach, Age-group coach, etc.
All money collections go through one location. When hiring, 1st priority is
good with kids, 2nd is technical.
Chris handles
maintenance at pools. Each facility does its own hiring and firing.
Created a handbook
for consistency at each location.
Offers home school
group during off hours.
Southern Zone
Meeting
Zones Task
Committee:
- Pete Malone
presented task committees recommendation of a Senior Zone Meet.
- USA Swimming is
providing $10K to host
- 15 & over
meet
- Time standards
between Sectionals and Juniors
- Club Driven -
Athletes represent their own clubs
- Scheduled the same
weekend as US Open, Aug. 5-9th
Zone meet to be held
in Orlando this year, and Atlanta in 2010.
Attended
Diversity Meeting - no report
House of Delegates Meeting - no report
Awards Banquet - no report
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