[Newsletter] MAKO INVITATIONAL RESULTS & SWIM CLINICS

MAC Swimming

Dear MAC families,

Our club participated in the first swim meet of the season, the Mako Fall Invitational on Oct 2-3. Our swimmers had a great experience and it was enough to get the motivation to continue their races during the season. Coaches will update the practice plan for each swimmer and swimmers will develop their skills and techniques to get ready for the next swim meet. If you are interested in additional practice for your swimmers, our club’s swim clinic will help your swimmers to improve diving and turning in a short period.

Swimming is different from getting a 4 in math or language arts. Every swimmer has their own goal and it can not be compared to other swimmers’. That’s why they need support and encouragement from you. If your young swimmer asks you how good they did at the swim meet, you don’t need to let them know their rank. It is enough to say that “You did a great job. I am so proud of you”. I believe that swimmers can gain from challenges and achievements by participating in the whole process from practice to the swim meet. They learn more when they focus on practice, training rather than record or rank.

Swimming is mostly an individual sport but trained with teammates. If swimmers focus on winning only, they can not have an opportunity to experience a good team that has great teammates who support each other and endure hard training together. Please encourage your swimmer to be a good teammate who supports and respects your teammates and coaches.

One of the difficult things I have as a coach is that some swimmers are doing great but their record is not enough to show their improvement. Unfortunately, swimmers can gain time because of their condition or by simple mistakes at the dive or turn. Whenever they don't get sufficient results at a swim meet, if the parents get stressed and complain to coaches, it is a big discouragement to your swimmers and coaches as well. Please let your coaches take care of your swimmer’s record. I need you to encourage your swimmer, check their daily condition and nutrition, and make them stay focused on practice without skipping or absence.

Our club’s competitive track - Swim Team, Mini Team, and Mini-Prep Team - is training speed and endurance. They need discipline physically and mentally as a competitive swimmer. If your swimmer does not focus on training with their full attention, we can not reach the goal so the coaches sometimes have to raise their voice and try to create tension during the practice.

It is just the beginning. After 2-3 years of hard training, you will see your swimmers swim as you imagined. Good luck to all of our swimmers and hopefully we will meet you all at the end of the race. Our coaches will train your swimmers and support you all of the time.

HEAD COACH

Mun Young Joung

Congratulations to Moons Aquatics Club’s Eastern Zone Qualifier, Eurie Kim!