Loved the home page feature on the USMS website today...
www.usms.org/features.php
Since the NCAA Championships are all around us these two weeks, who hasn't thought about our outstanding collegiate swimmers?
But have any of us considered inviting them to join us at masters in their near future?
Masters Swim Clubs in college areas could do all kinds of great things to inspire a retiring collegiate swimmer to join them.
Invite them to talk to the team at a social event would be an easy no-brainer.
But even beyond.
How about asking them to hold a clinic for your club?
And pay them since now they can accept the cash - and probably need it?
What else can we do to entice them to join our clubs (rack up points at the championship meets) and begin the rest of their healthy fit lives?
I didn't mean to imply they ALL want a break from swimming. I just think the front page article is kinda dumb.
See, I thought the article was pretty good. I think a lot of us assume that either a. college swimmers already know all about USMS, and/or b. college swimmers aren't interested in masters swimming. The "plea" may have been a little overblown, but I think the author brings up a good point that it can't hurt for current masters swimmers to reach out to the kids who might otherwise be thinking they are done with swimming.
I didn't mean to imply they ALL want a break from swimming. I just think the front page article is kinda dumb.
See, I thought the article was pretty good. I think a lot of us assume that either a. college swimmers already know all about USMS, and/or b. college swimmers aren't interested in masters swimming. The "plea" may have been a little overblown, but I think the author brings up a good point that it can't hurt for current masters swimmers to reach out to the kids who might otherwise be thinking they are done with swimming.
