Junior Silver Group Spring/Summer 2015
Lead Junior Silver Coach - Dan Cherok -
Asst. Silver Group Coaches – Jen Brown, Patrick Johnston , Brian Worhatch
Practice Schedule
Spring Schedule (April 6 - May 30) – 4 days/week
- 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. - Monday, Wednesday, Friday
- Dryland from 5:00 to 5:25
- In Water from 5:30 to 7:00
- 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. – Saturday
Summer Schedule (June 1 – July 15) – 5 days/week
- 6:00 – 7:30 a.m. Monday Wednesday, Friday
- Dublin North Pool
- 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday
- Northland Long-Course Pool
What you can expect of coaches:
- To take swimming seriously as a sport and not simply an activity
- To treat your swimmer as a young athlete and not a child
- To be reliable and punctual
- To be an advocate for your swimmer and the sport of swimming.
Group Ideals and Standards
Key elements of success: attitude, effort, and attendance.
Swimming is like all other activities and sports: what you put into it is what you’ll get out of it. If you want your swimmer to achieve maximum success then attending all practices and giving a great effort during practice will help to ensure a positive result. With things like doctors’ appointments and illnesses excluded, there should be no overlap or conflicts with schedules. All summer season practices should be considered ‘required’ practices.
Meet Participation
Because we are a competitive swim team, meet participation is required. Meets are a fun and exciting environment where we measure our hard work, dedication, and success. They give us events to prepare and strategize for and they are a stage that allows us to measure our best times that result from our hard work. Once committed to a meet, participation is expected and required unless the absence is approved by a coach.
In addition, it is expected that swimmers will swim in ‘finals’ events if they place in any given preliminary/finals formatted meet (i.e.- championship meets). To be so fast and accomplished should be considered a privilege, and participation in finals completes the meet commitment.
Meet Schedule
May 8-10 Kentucky Clippers Artic Splash – Covington, KY area
May 23-24PHST Meet, Denison University – Granville, OH
June 12-14GCSTO Creekside Meet – Gahanna, OH
June 27-28BSC Summer Splash, Ohio University – Athens, OH (Tentative)
-- or –
June 27-28OSSC Mike Peppe Meet, Ohio State Univ. – Columbus, OH
- time cuts
July 10-12Regional Championships - Bowling Green, Ohio
July 16-19J.O. Long-Course Championships - Miami University – Oxford, OH
Required Gear
- Short Bladed Fins– Tyr Crossblades, Tyr Burners, Finis Zoomers
- Small hand paddles – Finis Catch Paddles
- Swim Training Snorkel
- Optional: nose clips, mesh bag, fin socks
Medications
Any necessary prescribed medications must be present in the building and on deck during practices and meets. It is the responsibility of the swimmer to alert and provide coaches with any medication necessary for emergency administration.
(i.e.- inhalers, diabetes medication, allergy medication, any known pertinent medical issues, etc.)
Booster Organization
Things don’t happen by themselves. Please become involved either as a volunteer or as a booster office-holder.
Electronic / Social Media
Facebook – DCST Sea Dragons
Websites: dublinseadragons.org usaswimming.org swimohio.org
Apps: OnDeckMeet Mobile
Junior SilverMonday April 6, 2015
W/U
200 Swim @ 4:00
100 K.O.B. – Flutter @ 2:30
4 x 50 F/E @ 1:15
-Must be Fast/Easy or repeat
Practice Etiquette
-Pass quickly – no swimming 3-wide
-Line up 4-deep on both sides of lanes
-Leave every 5 seconds, unless instructed otherwise
-Quick send-offs from ‘starting position’ – no soft walls
-All appropriate turns – no stopping, and always flip at ‘cross’
-Always finish to wall (or we’ll start over)
-Always listen for yourself – your responsibility to know what’s going on
-Always count for yourself – laps and intervals
-No pulling on feet – be polite and respectful
-No inhibiting any other swimmer in any way (potential removal)
-Remain politely competitive (other swimmers are not your enemy, they’re your friends and your competitors. Everyone is expected to try hard so there can be no hard or aggressive feelings towards anything we do.)
Freestyle Swim/Drill -
-Early Vertical Forearm all swimming
2x[8 x 25 @ @ :40600 yds. / 13 min.
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1x 100 Swim @ 2:30
-One arm freestyle – right arm down, left arm back
-10 kick / pull
-Breathe to side, one goggle in water
-Continuous big kick
2x[8 x 25 @ :40600 yds. / 13 min.
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1x100 Swim @ 2:30
-3 pull / 10 Kick
-Goggle in water while breathing
-Continuous big kick
2x8 x 25 @ :40600 yds. / 13 min.
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1x100 Swim @ 2:30
-Catch-up Drill, Can breathe both sides, Big kick