SWAT Mission
The Sackville Waves Aquatic Team commits to develop each swimmer to achieve their highest personal level of excellence. We will do this throughLeadership, Integrity, Dedication, and Team Pride.
SWAT Vision
Our vision is to create a supportive and unparalleled environment that will fully encourage all swimmers to recognize their highest potential. We commit to be a provincial leader who continually produces champions; athletically, academically and in our community.
SWAT Values
We aim to have our Core Values irrefutably modeled at every level of our club by our coaches, swimmers, board of directors and parents.
LEADERSHIP: provide the leadership and means that will ensure sustained excellence across all levels of our program.
- Innovation & Skill Development: We commit to be proactive in the growth and design of quality programming to promote and ensure the highest level of skill teaching and development.
- Coach Education: We commit to continually invest in coach education to ensure our coaches are equipped to provide the highest quality of coaching to allow our athletes to improve at all levels.
INTEGRITY: promote respect, honesty, transparency and growth across all levels of our program.
- Respect: We commit to show respect for our coaches, facilities, ourselves, teammates and our sport on a daily basis. Honest and sincere behaviors and intentions characterize all respectful relationships in our program.
- Accountability: We commit to be accountable for all things we have control over to create an atmosphere with the desire to work consistently to achieve all individual and club goals and objectives.
DEDICATION: instil traits of commitment and discipline to strive to achieve excellence across all aspects of the swimmers life.
- Commitment: Model commitment to your training, to your team, to time management and to maintain a balance between sport and life to be able to fully succeed both in an out of the pool.
- Discipline: We commit to encourage a strong work ethic daily through the philosophy of “train and prepare how you want to compete”, which is the simplest form of discipline.
TEAM PRIDE: promote an inherent sense of community through athlete-centric actions to build a strong base of team culture and team support across all levels of our program.
- Athlete-Centered: We commit to support the different needs of all athletes to become competitive, intrinsically motivated and confident individuals; and teach the tools to believe in their ability to set goals and commit to these goals even in the face of obstacles.
- Community: We commit to create and develop a community environment that allows our program to achieve sustained success. Individual achievements reach greater heights when shared together with a group of people who care and share a similar vision. We strive to maintain a parent volunteer support base with participation in team events, and an active on deck presence in officiating roles at meets for the betterment of our sport.
