WELCOME FROM THE RED WAVE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS - Welcome swimmers and families! Thank you for
choosing to spend your summer with the Red Wave Swim Team. We truly
appreciate your support. Working together, we can make this an
exciting and positive experience for your child. We rely on our
parent volunteers, and would like to welcome you into our
organization. If you have any questions, please don’t
hesitate to contact any board member, coach, or veteran “swim
parent” for answers. Club information, schedule changes, and
updates are listed on our website
www.elcamporedwave.com
MISSION STATEMENT - To
provide to as many children as possible affordable access to
quality training in competitive-style swimming; to work with each
child to achieve his/her full potential as a participant in team
aquatics; to foster good sportsmanship and a “team
first” attitude through the inspired leadership of parents,
coaches, and officials; to promote team aquatics to our local
community as a healthy, family-friendly activity; to inspire and
instill a lifelong love of swimming in each person who participates
in El Campo Red Wave.
PHILOSOPHY - As a sport,
swimming is an incredibly demanding skill that tests any
athlete’s ability. We give credit where credit is due as much
as possible. We ask our athletes to compete at all distances in all
strokes as often as possible. Only through this practice can they
ultimately experience how rewarding being good in one event at one
distance can be. Through this practice they can determine which
stroke(s) and distance(s) produce the best results, while also
improving their performance of the other strokes.
We hope through this program to give each
athlete encouragement, responsibilities, goals and the direction by
which to achieve these goals. More often than not, this approach
results in a self-motivated, honest, intelligent, mature, and self
disciplined athlete. Medals, ribbons, and awards are nice, but
often can be deceiving.
An individual’s standard of
excellence is determined by self-improvement, self accomplishment
and self-determination –- not by the level of competition
that happens to be around them that day. We are here to benefit the
swimmers and to provide a positive learning
experience.
BENEFITS OF SWIM TEAM
PARTICIPATION
· enhanced swimming
ability
· increased endurance
· greater self-esteem and
self-confidence
· preparation for competitive
swimming
· proper stroke techniques for
competitive swimming
· proper techniques for starts,
turns, and finishes for competitive swimming
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