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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.
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.
By joining the Sierra Marlins, each swimmer becomes a member of
USA Swimming. USAS is the national governing body for the sport of
swimming with over 250,000 members and over 2700 participating
clubs across America. With membership, each Marlin athlete is tied
to our Olympians who, as members of USAS, have maintained our
country as the best swimming nation in the world for over 40
years. Each Marlin swimmer will receive a USA Swimming
membership card with an individual USAS number which will remain
the same for the length of a swimmers career. Every swimmer also
receives a subscription to Splash! Magazine. All Marlin swimmers
are covered under USA Swimming’s general liability insurance
policy.
We are constantly growing and training young swimmers to maintain a
well rounded competitive swim team. Thank you for joining us. We
are looking forward to meeting you. Please feel free to ask a board member
or coach any question you may have.
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