For the first 5 years of our program our team was very competitive. I really think this was due to the fact that most of us were competitive swimmers in high school and college. Realizing that we needed to enhance our program by getting the more recreational/fitness swimmer involved, we have now become a team of "tile counters" that rarely if ever test themselves at our masters swim meets or postal events. I realize that every doesn't need to compete, nor do I want to force anyone to compete. I'm just looking for some creative ideas or examples of how any of you were able to get people to participate in masters competitions. I would appreciate any help...
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If your team has different workout groups (for example, morning and evening), make the meets also function as an internal competition between the workout groups. So, for any given meet, the workout group that scores the most points for the team (or has swimmers in more events or swims more total yards) is taken to dinner by the coach or team fund (and the other workout group buys their own dinner).... you can pit workout groups within the team against each other throughout the year... with this, those who want to compete (and win) will be more inclined to encourage their teammates from their workout group to join them... and those who may not place at meets individually can be winners with their workout group.... this can become an ongoing internal team competition that goes beyond the actual meet results.
Good luck!
If your team has different workout groups (for example, morning and evening), make the meets also function as an internal competition between the workout groups. So, for any given meet, the workout group that scores the most points for the team (or has swimmers in more events or swims more total yards) is taken to dinner by the coach or team fund (and the other workout group buys their own dinner).... you can pit workout groups within the team against each other throughout the year... with this, those who want to compete (and win) will be more inclined to encourage their teammates from their workout group to join them... and those who may not place at meets individually can be winners with their workout group.... this can become an ongoing internal team competition that goes beyond the actual meet results.
Good luck!
