USMS, I want your help! In a nutshell: I'm the master's rep to the board of a cradle-to-grave swimteam. At our last board meeting, we discussed the need to reach out to those kids who finish age-group, but don't swim college, and are left with a giant swimming-shaped hole in their heart. For various reasons, they don't get it that masters is for them. I want to develop, or better yet, for someone skilled in this kind of thing to develop a pamphlet or fact sheet, or whatever it is that kids these days read, that describes Masters swimming to them. I want to describe how ferocious the level of competition is in their age groups. I want to dispel myths that it's just for oldsters like me. I want them to learn how challenging the workouts can be, how they can continue to improve, and that they need not be done with the sport they love.
Do any of you have something like this? Or can you suggest material to feed it?
THANKS!
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I read a great article many years ago titled something like "The last meet." The writer was a Masters swimmer timing at a high school championship meet. One of the swimmers in her lane was very sad that this would be his last meet - forever. She gave him a lesson about Masters, pointing out that she was still competing and had many years to go. Does anyone remember this?
I read a great article many years ago titled something like "The last meet." The writer was a Masters swimmer timing at a high school championship meet. One of the swimmers in her lane was very sad that this would be his last meet - forever. She gave him a lesson about Masters, pointing out that she was still competing and had many years to go. Does anyone remember this?
