My daughter has been swimming since she was 5, but started a swim team around 2 years ago. My daughter is 10 years old. She swims for a Naval Academy Swim Club and has been doing roughly 5 a week. She swims meets generally twice a month where we go to another school or university. Before she was at the another swim club that "went away". However when she was there, she made remarkable time reductions, she swims mainly 100-free, 100-back, 100-***, 50-free, 50-back, 50-*** and 100-IM (in the previous team and current team). What is bothering us is in the previous team (4-days a week 1.5 hours each time), she was making time reductions at each meet on each event. However she is at a new swim club (a Naval Academy Swim Club) and she spends more time during practice (5 days a week 1.45 hours each time), however she has recently beginning to ADD TIME, something she has never done before.
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- She has always been the fastest in her team (before/after) she has always been the fastest during each event during each swim meet (before after).
-100-back (1:21:85) / 100-*** (1:35:73) / 100-free (1:14:28) / 100-IM (1:23:56 / 50-*** (44:28) / 200-free (2:40:97).
-She has recently added 1 to 2 seconds "here and there" instead of dropping time.
-We have arranged a meeting with the coach to discuss.
-She's been with the new time for 3 months, 99% of the time the coach just practices freestyle with the students.
Our concerns is her current coach is not "micromanaging" her swim mechanics. We understand she is talented, the coach even tells us so when we bought up her timing issues. Based on our experience with our daughter, we find that she needs to be "individually" corrected in order to gain benefit. The coach she has right now is not really doing this. We know of other coaches in other areas who are much more strict and exert a lot of pressure on the students. We are not looking for her to be the next Michael Phelps. But we are concerned she will start slipping with her current coach. We know of other students who moved to more strict coaches. Those kids were several ranks behind our daughter. Within a few months they are now trailing just behind our daughter. In a recent meet this child is now above our daughter.
Our concerns is her current coach is not "micromanaging" her swim mechanics. We understand she is talented, the coach even tells us so when we bought up her timing issues. Based on our experience with our daughter, we find that she needs to be "individually" corrected in order to gain benefit. The coach she has right now is not really doing this. We know of other coaches in other areas who are much more strict and exert a lot of pressure on the students. We are not looking for her to be the next Michael Phelps. But we are concerned she will start slipping with her current coach. We know of other students who moved to more strict coaches. Those kids were several ranks behind our daughter. Within a few months they are now trailing just behind our daughter. In a recent meet this child is now above our daughter.
