Prep
Team Practice
M-Th 6:15-8:15/45pm; F 6:15-8:45pm;Sat 10am-12:30pm
W
6:30-8am will be offered Oct-Feb for make-up.
Hugh Convery and Brad
Callahan will coach prep team this year.
Brad comes to us via Rivermist and Auburn Aquatics. Hugh will be coaching the practices on Monday
and Wednesday and both Brad and Hugh will coach all other days. In addition Gary Taylor will work with Prep
drylands on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday.
The first week, practices will end at
Each practice will start
with 30-40 minutes of dryland exercise.
All swimmers should arrive with appropriate clothing for indoor or
outdoor activity, especially good shoes.
These activities could include running, calisthenics, tumbling, agility
drills, motor skill development, training circuits, or team sports.
Attendance
Prep swimmers are making the
transition from age group swimmer to Senior
swimmers. One important step is
accepting a higher emphasis on consistent practice attendance. Newer prep swimmers should make 4-5 workouts
weekly while returning prep swimmers and high school aged prep swimmers should
make 5-6.
Prep swimmers need to maintain their training Sept-March
and April-July. Vacations and travel
should be schedule around these times or if a swimmer has to be out of town
they should make arrangements to practice by either going to the club in that
town, or taking workouts with them. If you will be out of town
during one of the holiday school breaks start working early to set up a
training regimen for your swimmer. A
long break in December can really set an older swimmer back and increases the chance
of illness/injury when they return to training.
When a Prep swimmer is ill or injured (unless they need bed
rest) for more than one day I would like them to come in. I have various dryland routines for various
illnesses (swim ear, sore knees, sore shoulders) that
will allow the swimmer to still get a workout while
recuperating/rehabbing.
You should all have a meet schedule. All swimmers are expected to attend meets for
which they are eligible. To be entered
you must send in a meet entry request.
As a courtesy, parents should send back any meet slip they receive,
noting whether to enter or not enter the swimmer. These notes will be due by a
published deadline about two weeks before each meet.
The year is divided
into two seasons. Short Course season is
Sept – March. Long Course is April
–August. Every swimmer should have a
special “focus” meet at the end of each season.
Because SC season is so long we usually have a big meet in December as
well. Meets are as important to
improvement as practice. I have always
felt that I do my best coaching at meets - after the event, when swimmers can
get feed back on ways to improve next time.
Intersquad October
7
ABSC dual meet October 27.
CAD Meet November
10-12.
Woodie B. Invite December 1-3.
Knoxville Travel meet Jan 14-16 (*must have A times)
Or Rays Coaches Invite January 14-16.
or Sat fun meet February 17
DeKalb Aquatics dual meet March 3.
Divisional Champs March 23-25
Prep team swimmers
should have a practice suit, team suit, and team cap (if they wear a cap). Try to use the team suit only for
competition. Competition suits should be
comfortably tight, plain Lycra suits (13-14 swimmers competing at state champs
or higher meets may consider a technical suit for those meets). All swimmers should have a team suit before
our first dual meet at ABSC. Coaches
will distribute caps at meets to swimmers who need them and then we will bill
your escrow $4 for latex and $14 for silicone.
You may also want to purchase a team warm-up team parka or other team
apparel.
For equipment, prep
swimmers need pull buoys, paddles, snorkels and training fins. You may also want to purchase your own
kickboard and heart rate monitor.
Our supplier is
Friends Unlimited. They have an on-line
catalog that you can get to from our web site.
They will have a team outfitting Tuesday Sept. 12.