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 see a fair amount of recently graduated college swimmers come and go with Sun Devil Masters as well as Brophy...Although a lot of us really enjoy having them around and the stepped up intensity they can bring I also see how there is a bit of a genertional gap for some folks...given how much Laura and I like to rpestend we are still in college we seem to have far less of a problem with that!
I'll go back to what I've said a few times before on this topic. To me the "low-hanging fruit" if you will is not the recent college grad but rather the high school senior who swam but may not be good enough to swim in college...I've seen far more of these come on board at ASU and they tend to stick around.
I see a fair amount of recently graduated college swimmers come and go with Sun Devil Masters as well as Brophy...Although a lot of us really enjoy having them around and the stepped up intensity they can bring I also see how there is a bit of a genertional gap for some folks...given how much Laura and I like to rpestend we are still in college we seem to have far less of a problem with that!
I'll go back to what I've said a few times before on this topic. To me the "low-hanging fruit" if you will is not the recent college grad but rather the high school senior who swam but may not be good enough to swim in college...I've seen far more of these come on board at ASU and they tend to stick around.
