Anyone know how swimmers were chosen/ applied for the High Performance Camp? I remember seeing something about this several years ago and if I remember right there were a very limited amount of spaces and the selection was based on your times/ top 10 places.
Just curious. From the article it sounded like a great opportunity and a lot of fun.
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Anyone know how swimmers were chosen/ applied for the High Performance Camp? I remember seeing something about this several years ago and if I remember right there were a very limited amount of spaces and the selection was based on your times/ top 10 places.
Just curious. From the article it sounded like a great opportunity and a lot of fun.
Anyone interested had to fille out an application. Swimmers were chosen from based on information in the application.
I filled one out for the event and was selected to attend. I decided against attending because of the responses that I recieved from the hosting group.
In early June, I ask for a list of coaches and a daily schedule for the week. I was told that they were finishing-up the coaches list and schedule. The next day, I had email from the hosting group asking me to confirm my attendance by the end of that day. I thought that was a little pushy to ask for a response on the sameday as the email was sent out for an event in late august.
By the middle of june, I still hadn't seen a copy of the schedule or the coaches list. Yes, the head coaches was Kerry O'Brian and Craig Keller from Asphalt Green. Both of them are great but I wanted to see the list of supporting coaches because the they really make the difference in how successful a camp is for a swimmer.
Around that time, I also had an email from the hosting group reminding me that half the deposit was due by June 30th. I responded to the email asking for the coaches list and daily schedule again. This time I got no response.
At the end of june, they sent out another email to the selected group reminding them of when the money was due. Since they hadn't provided any more information about how the weeks events were going to be broken down, I decided against attneding the camp.
IMO, the event hosts were pushy about wanting their money but not responsive in supplying information.
If USMS wants to do this event yearly, having information ready before asking for $1800 or half of it would be greatly appreciated.
Yes, I did send my thoughts to the event host about why I wasn't going to attend but go no response from them.
Anyone know how swimmers were chosen/ applied for the High Performance Camp? I remember seeing something about this several years ago and if I remember right there were a very limited amount of spaces and the selection was based on your times/ top 10 places.
Just curious. From the article it sounded like a great opportunity and a lot of fun.
Anyone interested had to fille out an application. Swimmers were chosen from based on information in the application.
I filled one out for the event and was selected to attend. I decided against attending because of the responses that I recieved from the hosting group.
In early June, I ask for a list of coaches and a daily schedule for the week. I was told that they were finishing-up the coaches list and schedule. The next day, I had email from the hosting group asking me to confirm my attendance by the end of that day. I thought that was a little pushy to ask for a response on the sameday as the email was sent out for an event in late august.
By the middle of june, I still hadn't seen a copy of the schedule or the coaches list. Yes, the head coaches was Kerry O'Brian and Craig Keller from Asphalt Green. Both of them are great but I wanted to see the list of supporting coaches because the they really make the difference in how successful a camp is for a swimmer.
Around that time, I also had an email from the hosting group reminding me that half the deposit was due by June 30th. I responded to the email asking for the coaches list and daily schedule again. This time I got no response.
At the end of june, they sent out another email to the selected group reminding them of when the money was due. Since they hadn't provided any more information about how the weeks events were going to be broken down, I decided against attneding the camp.
IMO, the event hosts were pushy about wanting their money but not responsive in supplying information.
If USMS wants to do this event yearly, having information ready before asking for $1800 or half of it would be greatly appreciated.
Yes, I did send my thoughts to the event host about why I wasn't going to attend but go no response from them.
