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'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.
FYI, Paul, I am one of your low-hanging fruits, and have been swimming with my Masters team since I first arrived at college 10 1/2 years ago.
Can I be a strawberry?
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?)
Thinking only of myself (actually, for my girls), I was somewhat offended that this past year's Halloween party explicitly said No children allowed!!!
Thinking of only myself, I'm offended when people bring their kids to what is ostensibly an adults only social event.
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.
