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?
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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.
Couldn't agree more with this!
Many high school kids are either not good enough to join their college team or their school has no team. But that does not mean that they don't love to swim(exercise) or be part of a team. Whether that means they compete or not is really not that important. But this is the group that is pretty much unaware that masters exists and would be more inclined to participate. Especially when faced with the freshman 15!
From talking with the 20 something swimmers at our pool I have learned that they miss the structure of their former practices and the routine it gave them (maybe not the intensity), having the motivation of working with a group of people and for some -the competition.
I do believe though that cost is a huge factor, for a college student or grad, and that maybe that should be taken into consideration.
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.
Couldn't agree more with this!
Many high school kids are either not good enough to join their college team or their school has no team. But that does not mean that they don't love to swim(exercise) or be part of a team. Whether that means they compete or not is really not that important. But this is the group that is pretty much unaware that masters exists and would be more inclined to participate. Especially when faced with the freshman 15!
From talking with the 20 something swimmers at our pool I have learned that they miss the structure of their former practices and the routine it gave them (maybe not the intensity), having the motivation of working with a group of people and for some -the competition.
I do believe though that cost is a huge factor, for a college student or grad, and that maybe that should be taken into consideration.
