Blog 1118: Diddy Development Squad

After studying other successful Junior programs and speaking to other coaches Alex and to a lesser extent myself, have come up with an plan to ensure the long term success of the club. The long term success starts at the very bottom of the pathway and that means Learn To Swim. The plan is to take the swimmers that will be involved in Diddy League competitions (swimmers aged between 9 and 12 as at the 16th of September 2012) and create a squad that will train together once a week on a Saturday Morning. This will replace the current J2 and J3 squad session. Those swimmers in J2 that don't qualify will be offered the opportunity to train with J3 once a week as a replacement, and whilst training with a higher level of swimmer this will bring on those swimmers at an accelerated rate, therefore no one will lose out. As this squad will be picked on the teams, it will be picked as a team would be therefore we will be running time trials for LTS (speak to Ian to see if you are selected for the time trials) and Development on Sunday 22nd January from 6pm. Any swimmer who is in the right age band and wishes to be considered for this squad but has not got times on the PB database should approach their coach to get permission to take part in these time trials. Further details will be available after the time trials have been done. These are exciting times for Long Eaton SC and with this development in the club, these will be successful times as well.