USMS High Performance Camp

I attended the camp and yes all meals, hotel, transportation to and from the hotel and to and from the pool was included. The coaches were top notch! Kerry O'brien has been coaching Masters since 1980 and is a level 5 ASCA coach. He is very knowledgeable and very good. Craig Keller is young but also very knowledgeable (he was an assistant coach with Kerry and with Stu Kahn). He chairs the USMS coaches committee. Stu Kahn has been coaching for 40 years at the club level, junior college, college, age group and the last three years Masters. He also is very very good. BTW, he coached Matt Biondi as an age grouper! Frank Marcinowski has also many years of experience (since 1977 I believe). Except for Frank, all the other coaches are FULL TIME Masters coaches. I believe the coaches had to apply to that camp to be selected as well. Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas was there for three days. For eight years he was at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs working with swimmers. You can't get better than that! His approach is very scientific. I don't think you can get a lactate clearance test just anywhere. And his Swim Power Test shows you very clearly where you are getting the most and least power in your stroke. He also writes a summary of your weak points and what to do to improve. Others brought in were also experts in their field. Jennifer Brunelli was a seven time All-American swimmer at South Carolina and is now a nutritionist. Nice to have a nutritionist who is a swimmer! The sport psychologist was a professor at UNC and works with many athletes. Lefty, Olympians are great to listen to and many of them are good coaches, but this group I felt was really very good. Yes, it is expensive, but I felt it was very much worth it.

I attended the camp and yes all meals, hotel, transportation to and from the hotel and to and from the pool was included. The coaches were top notch! Kerry O'brien has been coaching Masters since 1980 and is a level 5 ASCA coach. He is very knowledgeable and very good. Craig Keller is young but also very knowledgeable (he was an assistant coach with Kerry and with Stu Kahn). He chairs the USMS coaches committee. Stu Kahn has been coaching for 40 years at the club level, junior college, college, age group and the last three years Masters. He also is very very good. BTW, he coached Matt Biondi as an age grouper! Frank Marcinowski has also many years of experience (since 1977 I believe). Except for Frank, all the other coaches are FULL TIME Masters coaches. I believe the coaches had to apply to that camp to be selected as well. Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas was there for three days. For eight years he was at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs working with swimmers. You can't get better than that! His approach is very scientific. I don't think you can get a lactate clearance test just anywhere. And his Swim Power Test shows you very clearly where you are getting the most and least power in your stroke. He also writes a summary of your weak points and what to do to improve. Others brought in were also experts in their field. Jennifer Brunelli was a seven time All-American swimmer at South Carolina and is now a nutritionist. Nice to have a nutritionist who is a swimmer! The sport psychologist was a professor at UNC and works with many athletes. Lefty, Olympians are great to listen to and many of them are good coaches, but this group I felt was really very good. Yes, it is expensive, but I felt it was very much worth it.