So, coaches are getting some bad press in a couple of other threads, so I thought it might be interesting to talk about who has really impressed us as a coach (masters or open) and what it was about that coach that was so good. Ok, I'll go first.
A fellow named Archie Mckinnon was my first coach in age group, when I was 7-9yrs old & was flat out the best communicator I have ever seen. He let us know why we were doing what we were doing, what we were going to do & consulted us frequently as to what we wanted to get from our swimming (us individually, not the parents). Sounds out of a modern textbook, right? This was 1959-62 I've never had a coach since who came close to him, which had a great deal to do with me leaving swimming when I was fourteen.
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*** Porter, my high school coach at Redan High School from 1977-1980. He got the best out of his swimmers and was able to keep it real at the same time. In my senior year he let me get a little involved in the coaching end of the business, looking at woirkouts and setting meet lineups. He is probably the reason I'm coaching age group swimmers 27 years later. He did a lot to make swimming a life long passion for me. :applaud::applaud:
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*** Porter, my high school coach at Redan High School from 1977-1980. He got the best out of his swimmers and was able to keep it real at the same time. In my senior year he let me get a little involved in the coaching end of the business, looking at woirkouts and setting meet lineups. He is probably the reason I'm coaching age group swimmers 27 years later. He did a lot to make swimming a life long passion for me. :applaud::applaud:
