It's Not Whether You Win or Lose: Teaching Good Sportsmanship Danger Zone Here are some comments not to tell your teen: “You've got to play your best; it's the championship, and the team's counting on you.” “If you play well, we'll be so proud of you.” “I've got ten bucks riding on you getting a home run.” One danger of playing competitive sports is that kids begin to think that if they don't win, they're failures. (Some coaches reinforce this philosophy.) This is obviously a recipe for major disappointment. From...

Realistic Goals and Fun Keep Kids in Sports 20 million kids register each year for youth hockey, football, baseball, soccer, and other competitive sports. The National Alliance for Sports reports that 70 percent of these kids quit playing these league sports by age 13. They never play them again. According to Michael Pfahl, executive director of the National Youth Sports Coaches Association, "The number one reason [why they quit] is that it stopped being fun." With figures like these, it's time we rethink how we present youth sports to kids....

Coral Springs Invitational June 24 – 27, 2010 Thursday, June 24, 2010 - Events # 1 thru 10 · Session I: Warm-up: Timed Finals - 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 25, 2010 - Events # 11 thru 50 · Session II: Prelims, Warm-up: 7:00 a.m. · Session III: Finals, Warm-up: 3:50 p.m. Saturday, June 26, 2010 - Events # 51 thru 92 · Session IV: Prelims, Warm-up: 7:00 a.m. · Session V: Finals, Warm-up: 3:50 p.m. Sunday, June 27, 2010 - Events # 93 thru 124 · Session VI: Prelims, Warm-up:...

Swimmer's ear is an infection of the ear canal. If you stick your finger in your ear, you're feeling a little of the ear canal. But if you have swimmer's ear, and you stick your finger in your ear — YOW! Let's find out more about this painful type of ear infection, which often affects swimmers. Swimmer's ear — also called otitis externa (say: o- ty-tus ek- stur-nuh) — is different from a regular ear infection. Usually, when people say a kid has an ear infection, they mean otitis media...

The next PST Booster Club meeting is Wednesday, June 30 at 5:30 p.m. at Central Park, upstairs in Room 2. Parents of swimmers are encouraged to attend the meeting. The sole purpose of the Booster Club is to make the swimming experience more fun for the swimmers and their parents. They develop and plan activities for the kids that will help boost our team spirit and involve every family. The Booster Club meetings are open to all parents. We need 100% involvement from all families to be successful. We want...

About Swimmer's Ear Otitis externa — commonly known as swimmer's ear — is an infection of the ear canal, the tubular opening that carries sounds from the outside of the body to the eardrum. It can be caused by many different types of bacteria or fungi. The infection commonly occurs in kids who spend a lot of time in the water. Too much moisture in the ear can irritate and break down the skin in the canal, allowing bacteria or fungi to penetrate. In temperate climates, otitis externa occurs more...

FAQs for the day! Q: What will happen to my child's meet results if he only makes half of the offered workouts because he is participating in other sports? A: Children involved in other activities can benefit in the areas of coordination and balance, as well as improved social and intellectual development. Specialized training in one activity does not necessarily need to take place at this stage of development. Will your son’s teammate who makes all practices have better results? Probably, because his teammate is working solely on developing swimming...

News For SWIM PARENTS Published by The American Swimming Coaches Association 5101 NW 21 Ave., Suite 200 Fort Lauderdale FL 33309 ___________________________________________________________________ Lifetime Fitness Growing recognition that many American children are neither developing sufficient fitness, nor learning appropriate lifetime health habits has caused leading physical educators to re-evaluate their long-time methods and shed the traditional coach/drill sergeant image for an educational approach that gives young students the tools for lifetime fitness. Ron Feingold, Ph.D. of Adelphi University in N.Y., and one of the leaders in this movement explains,”To me, what's...

There will be no practice for all 5pm groups (morning and evening) Friday, June 25th if you are not in the meet at Coral Springs. There WILL be practice for all 3:45pm groups.

Thousands of Kids Hurt While Diving Each Year In the few remaining weeks before summer comes to an all-too-soon end, kids and teens will undoubtedly cram in as much swimming as they can. But, as a new study shows, a fun day cooling off can quickly turn into a trip to the ER when a dive into the water goes wrong. In the first nationwide study to look at diving-related injuries in kids and teens, researchers sifted through 17 years of emergency room data (from 1990 to 2006). They found...