Go For The Gold Clinics – September 10, 2016

I had the opportunity to direct our two “Go For the Gold Clinics” on Saturday Sept 10th. These clinics awarded 22 age group swimmers whose parents bought our “Ultimate Swim Camp” packages in May at our Go For The Gold event. This fundraiser & celebration was for our Olympic Trials (Kendyl Stewart and Andrew Brady) and our Paralympic Trials (Roderick Sewell and Jamey Slater) athletes who competed at their respective trials this past summer.

Kendyl Stewart  finished 3rd at the USA trials and was our featured athlete at the camps that were divided into 2 X 4 hour blocks. Each camp included an in the water demonstration from Kendyl in all four strokes, starts and turns as the swimmers were given advice from our coaching staff, and video taping.  After the in water session we moved to the classroom where Kendyl talked about her own swimming journey from a 10&Under at the Carlsbad Boys & Girls Club thru her age group, high school and college career to her current and future goals as a member of the USA National Team. Kendyl passed around 3 of her most treasured international medals which was very inspirational! Coach Rob then went over each swimmer’s video with them to highlight strengths and areas for improvement.

We wrapped up each session by serving lunch to the swimmers and and giving them gift bags with a $100.00 gift certificate for  Speedo swag. I cannot thank enough Jennifer Ryan for helping me organize the event, serving lunch and putting the gift bags together, Coach Rob for being the master video guru, and Coach Kathrine, Coach Kristyn E and Coach Eva for assisting me with the camps. The kids were awesome and left the camps with big smiles on their faces.

I hope to see many of youat our first big team building event this Saturday at Alga Norte. This event is our annual relay meet and pancake breakfast with all the proceeds of your swimmers entry fee going to support local charities. This event is always a lot of fun and a great way to kick off our new swim year!  I encourage you to take lots of pictures. You can send your favorite pictures to our website coordinator Sean at [email protected].  Look for a follow up post on our website highlighting this event.

Coach Jeff