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 agree with this. A lot of people have the attitude that if you're in your 20s you're not a "real" Masters swimmer. Very unwelcoming. But if we got more young people competing, there would be a snowball effect, where you feel more like you belong at the meets, which would bring in even more people. Getting the process started is the hard part.
Now, Jazzy, don't get all up in arms. Of course you are a real master's swimmer and a welcome member of the gang. However, I contend that the competition in masters doesn't really get going until 35-39, when the college studs have burned out, gotten fat, had a kid or two and need to change their evil ways and come back. You are fast by any standard.
I agree with this. A lot of people have the attitude that if you're in your 20s you're not a "real" Masters swimmer. Very unwelcoming. But if we got more young people competing, there would be a snowball effect, where you feel more like you belong at the meets, which would bring in even more people. Getting the process started is the hard part.
Now, Jazzy, don't get all up in arms. Of course you are a real master's swimmer and a welcome member of the gang. However, I contend that the competition in masters doesn't really get going until 35-39, when the college studs have burned out, gotten fat, had a kid or two and need to change their evil ways and come back. You are fast by any standard.
