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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The flip side of encouraging more ppl (any age) to join masters swimming is where to put them. Pools are closing right and left. (Has the drain cover issue been resolved?)
We don't have the drain cover issue here, or pools closing, but a lot of the more popular masters clubs have waiting lists to get in. The ones that don't tend to meet at peculiar times of day that don't suit the average office worker. A lot of people end up at the club-like workouts put on by the city pools program, or the two "Y"s (YM and YW). Which is okay, I guess, but I doubt many of them end up in meets.
The flip side of encouraging more ppl (any age) to join masters swimming is where to put them. Pools are closing right and left. (Has the drain cover issue been resolved?)
We don't have the drain cover issue here, or pools closing, but a lot of the more popular masters clubs have waiting lists to get in. The ones that don't tend to meet at peculiar times of day that don't suit the average office worker. A lot of people end up at the club-like workouts put on by the city pools program, or the two "Y"s (YM and YW). Which is okay, I guess, but I doubt many of them end up in meets.
