This past week coaches and swimmers from USA Swimming's newest Utah club, RACE SWAMI, hosted a swim clinic for the Rose Park community at the Northwest Rec Center (otherwise known to our SWAMI athletes as, "The N-Dub!"). Held for an hour on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the club had relatively modest numbers (11), but "modest numbers" was more than made up for with a pool full of huge smiles from clinic-goers and volunteers alike!
Clinic attendees ranged in ages 6 to 12. They received virtually one-on-one assistance solely due to the fact that RACE SWAMI athletes came in abundance. All told, there were two coaches on deck, and about ten volunteers from the swim club in the water, most of which were high school aged student-athletes from Judge Memorial.
In the end, it looks like RACE SWAMI may have picked up as many as eight, possibly nine, swimmers who will likely join either our RISING SWAMI developmental group, or JUNIOR SWAMI, which is an advanced developmental group composed of kids ranging in ages 7 to 13.
We can't thank the good folks from Northwest Rec enough, as they helped us put this clinic together and assisted us in getting the word out.
We plan to offer a couple more clinics in the coming months; one at the Steiner West facility and a follow up clinic at the N-Dub this summer.
It was a lot of fun getting to know some awesome kids these past three days and it is our hope they took something from this clinic... not to mention a new found love for an awesome sport! We hope to see these kids around the pool very soon.
Swami Master
I coached
ReplyDeleteYes, Motley did in fact coach. Thank you, sir.
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