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Professional Swimming Coaches ASCA NEWSLETTER AMERICAN SWIMMING COACHES ASSOCIATION 2015 EDITION | ISSUE 1 In This Issue: The 3 / 2015 USA COACHING ROSTERS HOUSE IS ON 5 / On Being Grateful, By Don Swartz 6 / SMART STUFF FOR NEW COACHES 8 / KEEPING THE ATHLETE HEALTHY Book Review by Paul J. Kiell 9 / Thinking About Kicking, By Don Swartz Fire 10 / Looking for a Quantum Leap, By Don Swartz By John Leonard . 16 / THE HIGH SCHOOL-SWIMMING CLUB Relationship in American Swimming 28 / PATHWAYS TO LEADERSHIP: Inspirational Profile of Peter Daland One of the key roles that the American option of elite coaching – no realistic dreams months, the path will be set. Universities will Swimming Coaches Association has played in of being the best they can be. Their swimming be either keeping or dropping scholarships and American Swimming since 1958 is to warn careers end between 15-18. full-time elite coaching jobs by then. All of this of threats to our sport. Today, I am going to driven, of course, by the insatiable need for tell you about the biggest threat to American NCAA Scholarship Swimming keeps the dollars for football and basketball players, and Swimming in the history of our sport. dream alive! Keeps the options OPEN! 6 Million Dollar a year football coaches. NCAA Scholarship Swimming is under assault. It “de-limits every American Swimmer!” We will need YOU to rally your teams. Get And very likely to become extinct SOON if we Dream, Work, ACHIEVE. (If you chose to.) tons of letters and emails written to University don’t act to save it. This is critical to all of us Second, for all the reasons outlined above, Presidents and Athletic Directors in support for two reasons: NCAA Scholarship Swimming is the engine of the real student athletes: swimmers. The CSCAA and the ASCA are working together First, for all of us, the USA is the only country that drives our Olympic and International Success. Those 6,000 NCAA Scholarship with USA Swimming to develop the plan, and in the world where a young man or young lady ask you to work the plan. taking his or her first swimming lesson today, Swimmers who keep swimming from eighteen has no limits on their future! They can choose to twenty-four as they mature (and late I am personally so offended by the hypocrisy to swim a little, swim a lot, excel (or not), go maturers are the leading edge of elite athletes) of the NCAA ad that goes on about “most through high school swimming, move on to the are the “talent pool” which we have drawn on of them will go pro in something other than world’s most competitive program in NCAA to lead the world in swimming for more than sports.” Which implies that the NCAA actually swimming (which attracts athletes from all 100 years now. NCAA Scholarship Swimming has something to do with that! While the over the globe, seeking what they don’t have at is the EDGE that we have over the rest of the finance of University sport heads inexorably home), and go on to be an Olympian. Swimming world. towards the ELIMINATION OF OLYMPIC IF NCAA Scholarships go away, the USA in SPORTS in favor of the semi-pro leagues for Or they can chose to do summer league football and basketball players. swimming, swim in high school, move on to an ten years will look like a second rate Australia – academic life, and never swim again. we’ll have a similar numbers of “elite” athletes, It’s a toss-up right now whether the IOC, except our Aussie friends live in a country FINA, or the NCAA is the most hypocritical The point is, they have the choice. where swimming really COUNTS in the organization in the world of sports today…but culture. You all know where swimming ranks that’s a discussion for another day. In no other place on earth is that the case. In in the USA in terms of cultural importance. most of the globe, that young lady or man So, what do we do? What is for today is simply this: if you love has almost nothing but limits. And most, even American Swimming, get ready to fight for it. if they are serious youth swimmers, have no You’ll hear lots of work ideas and see lots in We’ll need all of us, TOGETHER, to save it. choice but to quit swimming between 15-18 and action soon. We have about a 12-24 month concentrate on academics which will determine window to save scholarship swimming and Let’s Go USA. We can do this. Plans coming. their future. No option of Scholarships, no elite coaching jobs in the NCAA. Within 24 House on Fire. Man the buckets. 2015 EDITION 1 | ASCA NEWSLETTER 1 ASCA Newsletter Official ASCA Sponsors Published for the American Swimming Coaches Association by the American Swimming Coaches Council for Sport Development. Board of Directors PRESIDENT: Gregg Troy VICE-PRESIDENTS: Jim Tierney, Steve Morsilli MEMBERS: Don Heidary, Ira Klein, Matthew Kredich. Michael Lawrence, David Marsh, Amy Montgomery, Tim Murphy, Kathleen Klein Prindle, Bill Wadley, Chuck Warner EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Jennifer Gibson, Tim Welsh ASCA Staff EXECUTIVE Director & Editor John Leonard CLINICS & JOB Services Guy Edson SwimAmericaTM Sponsors International director Duffy Dillon SWIMAMERICA & ALTST Julie Nitti TECHNICAL Services & WSCA Matt Hooper WEB & PUBLISHING Director: Mary Malka Certification Kim Witherington MEMBERSHIP Services Melanie Wigren Finance Kimberly Cavo BOOKKEEPING & SALES Lenora Hayes GENERAL COUNSEL Richard J. Foster The Newsletter for Professional Swimming Coaches A Publication of the American Swimming Coaches Council for Sport Development, American Swimming Newsletter (ISSN: 0747-6000) is published by the American Swimming Coaches Association. Membership/subscription price is $70.00 per year (US). International $120.00. Disseminating swimming knowledge to swimming coaches since 1958. Postmaster: Send address changes to: American Swimming Coaches Association 5101 NW 21st Avenue, Suite 530 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 (954) 563-4930 | Toll Free: 1 (800) 356-2722 | Fax: (954) 563-9813 swimmingcoach.org | [email protected] © 2015 American Swimming Coaches Association. 2 ASCA NEWSLETTER | 2015 EDITION 1 USA COACHING Rosters Announced for 2015 Worlds, Pan Am & World University Games COOL RADO SPRINGS — USA Swimming today announced its coaching rosters for three major international competitions in 2015 – the FINA World Championships, Pan American Games and World University Games. “The commitments from a mix of veteran coaches and rising stars on these three staffs position our National Team well for both short- and long-term success,” said USA Swimming National Team Director Frank Busch. “Next summer, our swimmers will be in great hands as they look to excel against top international competition heading into an Olympic year in 2016.” 2015 Men’s Head Coach Dave Durden. (Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott.) Headlining the selections are the head coaches for Team USA at the 2015 FINA World Championships set for Aug. 2-9, 2015, in Kazan, Russia. The women’s The complete coaching staffs for each event are as follows: head coach at the 2013 FINA World Championships, 2015 FINA World Championships Coaching Staff Dave Salo of the University of Southern California » Women’s Head Coach: Dave Salo (USC/Trojan Swim Club) and Trojan Swim Club will assume the same role next » Women’s Assistant Coaches: Bruce Gemmell (Nation’s Capital Swim Club), summer. Dave Durden of the University of California, Greg Meehan (Stanford/Stanford Swimming), Teri McKeever (Cal/California Berkeley and California Aquatics will serve as the Aquatics) men’s head coach after leading the Golden Bears to » Men’s Head Coach: Dave Durden (Cal/California Aquatics) three NCAA titles in the last four years. » Men’s Assistant Coaches: Rick DeMont (Arizona/Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics), Whitney Hite (Wisconsin/Wisconsin Aquatics); David Marsh The U.S. head coaches for the 2015 Pan American (SwimMAC Carolina) Games are Jason Turcotte of Dynamo Swim Club, who will guide the men, and Matt Kredich of the 2015 Pan American Games Coaching Staff University of Tennessee and Tennessee Aquatics, » Women’s Head Coach: Jason Turcotte (Dynamo Swim Club) who will mentor the women. The pool competition in » Women’s Assistant Coaches: Arthur Albiero (Louisville), Michael Brooks (York Toronto is set for July 14-18, 2015. Turcotte was the YMCA), Erik Posegay (North Baltimore Aquatic Club) co-recipient of the 2014 USA Swimming Development » Men’s Head Coach: Matt Kredich (Tennessee/Tennessee Aquatics) Coach of the Year Award, while Kredich is a six-time » Men’s Assistant Coaches: Bob Groseth (SwimMAC Carolina), Ted Knapp collegiate conference coach of the year honoree. (Stanford/Stanford Swimming), Greg Rhodenbaugh (Missouri) Leading the way for Team USA at the 2015 World 2015 World University Games Coaching Staff University Games will be women’s head coach Ray » Women’s Head Coach: Ray Looze (Indiana) Looze of Indiana University and men’s head coach » Women’s Assistant Coaches: Steve Bultman (Texas A&M), Augie Busch Mike Bottom of the University of Michigan and (Virginia/Cavalier Swimming), Harvey Humphries (Georgia/Athens Bulldog Club Wolverine. Looze will serve as the women’s Swim Club) head coach for Team USA for next month’s FINA » Men’s Head Coach: Mike Bottom (Michigan/Club Wolverine) Short Course World Championships, and Bottom » Men’s Assistant Coaches: John Flanagan (Nation’s Capital Swim Club), Kris also served as men’s head coach for the 2013 World Kubik (Texas), Yuri Suguiyama (Cal/California Aquatics) University Games. The 2015 World University Games swimming competition is slated for July 4-11, The above article was a press release submitted to Swimming World magazine and published 2015, in Gwangju, South Korea. on November 17, 2014.
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