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13 Steps to Being a Winning Parent INTRODUCTION If you want your child to come out of his youth sports experience a winner (feeling good about himself and having a healthy attitude towards sports), then he needs your help! You are a vital and important part of the coach-athlete-parent team. If you do your job correctly and play your position well, then your child will learn the sport faster, perform better, really have fun and have his self-esteem enhanced as a result. His sport experience will serve as a positive...
Keys to Success with Mark Gangloff Mark Gangloff is a two-time Olympian and a member of the 2010 U.S. Pan Pacific Championships Team. Here are the keys to his success. 1. Hard work. This one is always first and foremost. It’s plain and simple. You have to come to practice every day ready to get at it. Whether you feel good or not – it’s easy to work hard when you feel good – you have to push through it, especially on the hard days, and think, “Even though I...
Q is for Quality Practice Often when people talk about being mentally prepared, the focus is on competition. However, when you stop to think about it, you spend more time practicing than you do competing. Therefore, it is essential to make sure you aren’t just going through the motions at practice, you have to make each training session a quality one. Let’s Call it Preparation I’ve always had issues with calling practice “practice.” To me, the word practice has the connotation of just going over your skills and repeating what...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, January 17, 2011 3:45 Groups - NO Practice 5:00 P.M. Groups will have morning practice only from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Swimming Fast and Unburdened for Yourself By Dr. Alan Goldberg, Sport Psychologist Let me ask you what may seem like a really silly question. How fast do you think you’d swim if you went into your best events with a 150-pund weight strapped to your back? Obvious answer: You’d be so weighed down that you wouldn’t be able to get off the blocks. Believe it or not, this is exactly what a lot of swimmers unknowingly do at many of their big meets. They consistently go into their races worried...
A deep field of swimming talent, including Olympians Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.), Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), Jason Lezak (Irvine, Calif.), and Katie Hoff (Towson, Md.) will headline the Austin Grand Prix, Jan. 14-16 at the Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on the University of Texas campus. This will be first meet of 2011 for many members of the U.S. National Team, including Lochte, who won six gold medals and set two individual world records at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Dubai in December. Other members of the...
PST 2011 Awards Banquet, January 9, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. PST Coaches would like to congratulate all swimmers on another fantastic year! Keep up the hard work, dedication, good grades and most of all, a positive attitude and you can accomplish anything! We would also like to thank each and every parent for taking time out to bring your swimmers to and from practices and meets, volunteering your time and effort in helping PST host Florida's finest events. Have a great year! Most Improved - 3:45 - Javier...
Rotator Cuff Injury The rotator cuff is made up of muscles and four separate tendons that surround the shoulder joint. A rotator cuff injury can be caused by a direct blow to the shoulder; falling on an outstretched arm; repetitive overhead motion of the arm, as in swimming, baseball (pitching), or tennis; or chronic degenerative wear and tear on the tendons. Risk factors for a rotator cuff injury include participating in sports that stress repetitive overhead arm motion (swimming, baseball, and tennis); age (more prevalent in those 40 or older);...
Tips for the 100 Backstroke BY CHELSEY WALDEN SCHREINER//Correspondent Depending on the time of year, backstroke can find you staring into the blazing sun or up at the ceiling of your home pool as you try to swim in a straight line. Also to be considered are the number of strokes from the flags to the wall, and that doesn’t even take into account head positioning, underwater kick, hand rotation or strong finishes to your arm stroke. Needless to say, there is a lot to think about in a short...
