Saturday 19 August 2017

Blog 3335: LESC House Cup

Whilst I am proud of what this club has achieved I am always looking at ways to improve the swimmers and club. Some say Im never happy, but Im actually never satisfied which is why Im always pushing forward.

Hopefully the house cup will help us improve as a club, as swimmers and have some fun whilst doing this.

The onus will be on the swimmers to take responsibility of their actions, behavior, attendance and improvement, supported by coaches and parents.

All swimmers in JD1,JD2, County, Midland and National squad will be divided up into "houses". Swimmers will receive marks based on the following.

Attendance - scored as a percentage of available sessions both land and pool when swimmers complete pre and post as well.

Listening - how well have you behaved during the session

Coach ability - The ease of improvement of skills etc

Team Spirit - have you supported your team mates in their goals, do you know your, your teammates, your squads goals, have you encouraged your team mates and congratulated your team mates during the session.

At galas swimmers will be scored on Process improvements "5 fly kicks every wall etc", Race Tactics and Outcome in terms of season and personal bests, the last 2 scoring more marks at the focus meets of the end of each cycle whilst the first 2 will score more in earlier meets. The more events you do the more points you can earn. Swimmers will earn bonus points again for team spirit and behavior, attitude and how they do things right around their races, i.e. pre pool, recovery, warm down, nutrition, hydration.

We will be emailing the scoring sheets which swimmers will get coaches to mark at training sessions or galas. For processes and tactics swimmers are to fill these based on conversations with coaches, the more they do this the more knowledgeable they will be become and they will be able to set their own process and tactics goals.

I have secured prizes for top 3 overall individual point scorers and will be looking at prizes for the top house and individual each cycle as well as the top house over the season.