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October 31, 2012 How Do You Raise a Prodigy? By ANDREW SOLOMON Drew Petersen didn’t speak until he was 3½, but his mother, Sue, never believed he was slow. When he was 18 months old, in 1994, she was reading to him and skipped a word, whereupon Drew reached over and pointed to the missing word on the page. Drew didn’t produce much sound at that stage, but he already cared about it deeply. “Church bells would elicit a big response,” Sue told me. “Birdsong would stop him in his...
Great job to all MCDA swimmers participating in last weekend's GCST Invite in Fort Meyers. Check out complete results here. A quick overview of our team success: 37 swimmers 187 races 66 best times 75 first time swims 21 DQs We are definitely making progress - keep up the hard work! And, just as a quick reminder - there are only 3 meets left until end of season champs!!! We want all swimmers to participate in a championship meet, but to get to swim at a champs meet, you must...
As a reminder, please note the following: There will be no practices on Friday afternoon through Monday afternoon (1/18-1/21) due to the Fort Meyers swim meet and the MLK holiday weekend. All practices will resume as scheduled on Tuesday, January 22. Thanks!
JANUARY 14, 2013, 3:21 PM Training Insights From Star Athletes By GINA KOLATA Of course elite athletes are naturally gifted. And of course they train hard and may have a phalanx of support staff - coaches, nutritionists, psychologists. But they often have something else that gives them an edge: an insight, or even an epiphany, that vaults them from the middle of the pack to the podium. I asked several star athletes about the single realization that made the difference for them. While every athlete's tale is intensely personal, it...
Article from Swimming World - December 2012 by Olivier Poirier-Leroy WHY do some swimmers have a hard time achieving success while other swimmers seem to effortlessly enjoy wild and never-ending success? Generally the first two answers tabled are talent and genetics. However, possessing these two attributes alone will not constitute an elite swimmer. Sure, they will always get by for a few years on these two characteristics, but it isn't long before that isn't enough. And before long, these promising young athletes are reflected upon as "flashes in the pan."...
Article from News for Swim Parents by Guy Edson, Technical Director, American Swimming Coaches Association Setting goals and working toward those goals is one of the most important life skills our young swimmers learn. What are the benefits of goal setting? What is the goal setting process? What are the respective roles of parents and coaches? In the American Swimming Coaches Association and USA Swimming’s Foundations of Coaching Course these benefits of goal setting are listed: 1. goals challenge swimmers, giving them something to work toward 2. goals direct swimmers...
Middle school may have been a heck of a lot easier if you had spent a little more time in the pool. New research out of Australia says that children who are taught to swim at an early age hit certain physical and developmental milestones faster than kids who learn later in life. Over the span of 3 years, researchers surveyed the parents of more than 7,000 children age 5 and under and found that the age kids learned to swim correlated with when they began accomplishing certain skills. In...
Don't worry - the pool is still very nice and warm - the ICE part refers to our MINDSET as we tackle some new skills and embrace some excellent challenges this week! I = INTENSITY C = CONCENTRATION E = EXECUTION ICE Training Camp Week 2 begins tomorrow - and this is definitely something you don't want to miss!
Let's start off the New Year with a bang! All swimmers and families are invited to join us at Hobie Beach at 1:30pm on 1/1/13 for our first open water swim of the new year! And huge thanks to the Bozdogan and Muzii families for their awesome program enhancing gift of the kayak, which means we can safely embrace open water swimming as a regular part of what we do at MCDA!
