Coach Guy's Group - August 2007Connecting the Dots- Posted:12/29/2007Head Coach, John Leonard is one of the best recognized coaching names in World Swimming Today. |
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Why Choose SwimFast Swim Team for Your Child? |
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"The best part of my day is standing on deck at 5 AM or 5 PM, knowing that I am about to have the opportunity to work with young people to positively affect their real world lives and to help them become faster swimmers. I am lucky to be involved in swimming from learn to swim through the USA Olympic Team and on to the FINA Coaches Commission, which I am honored to serve. But my day to day coaching keeps me coming back to our wonderful sport for a renewal of enthusiasm and excitement. I believe swimming is one of the best sports in the world for helping a young man or woman evolve into an independent, mature person. I love helping parents in that process." Where Do We Train?We train in a 6 lane, 25 yard pool at the Soref Jewish Community Center, 6501 West Sunrise Blvd., Sunrise, FL 33313. The pool is "bubbled" for warmth from early December to late February, depending on weather. The campus is located approximately 1/2 mail east of the intersection of Sunrise and University Drive on the north side of Sunrise. During the summer, some of the team will also train some mornings in a community Long Course Pool. The team is open to all swimmers of all ages |
No doubt there are a variety of swim teams in South Florida for parents to consider for their child. It is important that a parent try to match their interests and that of their child to the program that will best fulfill their needs. Each program has different strengths and weaknesses. To understand what SwimFast is all about, you are asked to read the Vision and Mission statement. The strengths of SwimFast are: 1. We provide individualized career planning and training plans for our athletes. 2. We provide the very best in technical instruction in strokes, starts and turns to our athletes of all ages. Swimming is a technique limited sport. You will only become as good as your attention to technical detail. 3. We offer a team that deliberately has a small number of athletes, so each athlete can benefit from individual attention. (We will top out our team size at 90 athletes... 20 seniors, 30 age groupers, and 40 novice swimmers in two novice groups... when we achieve that size, we will have the opportunity to join only via a waiting list. 4. We can offer detailed help in college selection and decision making for the older high school athletes, since Coach Leonard has personal relationships with most Division I and many Division II and III coaches. We want our athletes to swim in college and we work towards that end. 5. We offer swimming practices at the same time every day, 5-7 AM and 5-7 PM. This makes family scheduling possible. We offer from 11 to 3 workouts per week, according to the group you choose. Athletes attendance is individually determined in consultation with Coach John, depending on goals, interests, etc. 6. We provide our services for ONE FEE... paid monthly by the family, no booster club fees, no swimathons, no candy sales, no other irritating nickel-and-dime fundraisers. We charge a fair fee, and pay our club needs from that one fee. You do pay for swim meet entries and your annual USA-S membership fee. 7. Our aim is to help your child achieve all they are capable of achieving and are interested in achieving. We are not in existence for social purposes, though having friends on a team is important. We seek and support the highest levels of performances at all ages. 8. We believe the lessons of hard work, attention to detail, dedication, goal setting and personal achievement through effort are lessons well worth learning for every child. We live that everyday and reinforce it with the athletes everyday. If you believe the same, SwimFast may be for you! |
SwimFast Meet Schedule(for your future planning purposes...)July 11-13 – B Meet – FAU In December 2008 and January 2009, we will ONLY TRAIN (no meets) except for USA-Swimming Grand Prix meets for Seniors. This is so we can concentrate on dryland training work.
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Widely
recognized as one of the finest teachers of technical swimming (starts,
turns and strokes) in the world, John has lectured to coaches in
44 nations around the world on teaching skills, training athletes
and "coaching more than swimming." John's full time job
is in leading America's Coaches as the Executive Director of the