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“Helping kids become extraordinary
individuals through the sport of
swimming”
The Sierra Marlins is a USA
Swimming Silver Medal Team that emphasizes competitive success at
National Championships. SMST provides programs (fall program,
spring clinic, masters, swim school, etc.) for all ages, skill and
commitment levels. The Sierra Marlins emphasizes a strong team
concept and teaching life concepts is a vital component of our
organization at all levels.nbsp;
Our central theme is,
“Helping kids become extraordinary individuals through the
sport of swimming”, and we live that theme everyday. Our
coaching staff is committed to teaching life skills through
swimming and we believe there is much more value to our sport than
just learning the physical skills. Swimming provides an arena for
children to learn to deal with success and failure as well as the
value of hard work and goal setting. In other words, each meet,
event, practice, set and repeat serves as a challenge to better
oneself. Participation provides an avenue for parents and coaches
to praise and encourage a swimmers effort and achievements and over
time, a child’s self esteem can be positively affected.
Our Coaches view themselves as
educators first and strive to teach swimmers about various life
issues through a curriculum of concepts that are introduced every
week. Personal responsibility, integrity, hard work and our other
concepts are taught intensively over the course of a week, each
swim season. As the seasons pass, swimmers are certain to learn
skills and strategies that they can use to enhance their lives far
after their participation in competitive swimming is over.
For more
information about how to join the Sierra Marlins Swim Team:
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