The World Swimming Coaches Association NewsletterVol 08 Issue 4 CONTENTS ASCTA Annual Good Coaches? 2 Good Teachers? Coaches Awards Good Clubs? Coach of the Year Thoughts by Peter Ruddock Stephan Widmer Swimming Records 3 from Beijing Open Water Coach of the Year Olympics Ken Wood Report on the Age Group Coach of the Year 6 ASCA World Clinic Denis Cotterell By Terry Denison Telstra Swimmer with a Disability Coach of the Year Peter Bishop ASCA Coach of the Year Bob Bowman World Swimming Coaches Association 5101 NW 21st Ave., Suite 200 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309 USA Phone: 1-954-563-4930 or 1-800-356-2722 Fax: 1-954-563-9813 www.swimmingcoach.org/wsca W SC A World Swimming Coaches Association Good Coaches? Good Teachers? Good Clubs? Thoughts by Peter Ruddock – Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association – Gold Licence Good discipline is one of the characteristics of a good We’ve all been influenced by the notion that quality can teacher. Discipline is not a matter of keeping things under be measured by results, thus we have rankings of clubs and control, it is a matter of helping swimmers learn to make swimmers in order of their results. We have seen state re- good choices and be responsible for those choices, and cords in events down to 8 year old and National rankings helping with their development. Without good discipline to 13 year old and we see many other lists of “top clubs the best planned lessons may fail to have the desired im- and top swimmers.” pact and to promote effective learning. Perhaps expectations are placed upon children long be- When there is someone in the squad who does not be- fore they are ready. Should we be looking at results, local, have, a number of teachers/coaches in the past have used state, national and international for the young children? aggressive discipline techniques such as yelling in anger, Results encourage coaches to “coach for results.” Children sarcasm, sending swimmers out of the water, labeling the progress at different rates, so if we compare them and student, giving the individual swimmer extra work to com- clubs against each other, are we doing the wrong thing in plete or even making the whole squad do extra work. It child and club development?? has been found through research that these methods do not bring about good discipline. Comparing results moves a whole community away from remembering what we’re really about, which is nurturing It has also been found that excellent teaching is the most swimmers so that they develop a set of skills to help them powerful influence on achievement and that expert teach- in their aquatic development. ers are more adept at monitoring problems and assessing progress and providing feedback to the learner. Auditory testing has proved that students aged from 4-6 years could not accurately process sentences longer than nine words and for children age 9-10 only 13 words. Research has found that children are often bombarded by rapid-fire lengthy instructions from teachers. What good teachers do? • They have good eye contact. Editors Note: • They speak slowly. “We’re always looking for good • They use short sentences with no more than thirteen words. articles for the WSCA news. • They plan lessons. Please submit them in English to [email protected].” • They give positive feedback. (Written appraisal is a great way to reinforce the positive.) • Expert teachers also set challenging goals. Now as head coach/managers do you give regular feed- back and regular formal appraisal to your teachers and assistant coaches? Is the club that does not produce a champion a failure??? Is the best coach the one who coaches the “TOP” club? WSCA Newsletter Vol 08 Issue 4 2 Swimming Records from Beijing Olympics World Records, Olympic Records and Continental Records were smashed at the recent Olympic Games. Provided below are a summary of all these records. There were only 2 Olympic records not broken at the meet. The Netherland’s Inge De Bruijn’s 100 fly World Record of 56.61 from the 2000 Olympics was the ONLY Womens Olympic Record not bettered in Beijing. Australian Ian Thorpe’s 400 free World record of 3:40.59 from the 2000 Olympics was the ONLY Mens Olympic Record not bettered. World Records – Womens (10) Women’s 200 free: 1:54.82, Federica Pellegrini, Italy (old = 1:55.52, Laure Manaudou, France, March 2007) [Note: Pellegrini broke the WR twice: prelims (1:55.45) and finals] Women’s 800 free: 8:14.10, Rebecca Adlington, Great Britain (old = 8:16.22, Janet Evans, USA, August 1989) Women’s 100 back: 58.77, Kristy Coventry, Zimbabwe (old = 58.97, Natalie Coughlin, USA, July 2008) Women’s 200 back: 2:05.24, Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe (old = 2:06.09, Margaret Hoelzer, USA, July 2008) Women’s 200 breaststroke: 2:20.22, Rebecca Soni, USA (old = 2:20.54, Jessicah Schipper, Australia, August 2006) Women’s 200 fly: 2:04.18, Zige Liu, China (old = 2:05.40, Jessicah Schipper, Australia, August 2006) Women’s 200 IM: 2:08.45, Stephanie Rice, Australia (old = 2:08.92 March 2008) Women’s 400 IM: 4:29.45, Stephanie Rice, Australia (old = 4:31.12, Katie Hoff, USA June 2008) Women’s 800 free relay: 7:44.31, Australia (Rice, Barratt, Palmer, MacKenzie) (old = 7:50.09, USA, March 2007) Women’s 400 Medley Relay: 3:52.69, Australia (Seebohm, Jones, Schipper, Trickett) (old = 3:55.74, Australia, March 2007) Olympic Records – Womens (15) Women’s 50 free: 24.06, Britta Steffen, Germany Women’s 100 free: 53.12, Britta Steffen, Germany Women’s 200 free (see WR) Women’s 400 free: 4:02.19, Federica Pellegrini, Italy Women’s 800 free (see WR) Women’s 100 back (see WR) Women’s 200 back (see WR) Women’s 100 breaststroke: 1:05.17, Leisel Jones, Australia Women’s 200 breaststroke (see WR) Women’s 100 fly * Women’s 200 fly (see WR) Women’s 200 IM (see WR) Women’s 400 IM (see WR) Women’s 400 free relay: 3.33.76, Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis) Women’s 800 free relay (see WR) Women’s 400 medley relay (see WR) Continental Records – Womens (44) Africa (9) Africa – women’s 100 free: 55.17, Lize-Mari Retief, South Africa Africa – women’s 400 free: 4:08.38, Wendy Trott, South Africa Africa – women’s 800 free: 8:26.21, Wendy Trott, South Africa Africa – women’s 100 back (see WR) Africa – women’s 200 back (see WR) Africa – women’s 100 fly: 58.20, Lize-Mari Retief, South Africa Africa – women’s 200 fly: 2:09.41, Katheryn Meaklim, South Africa Africa – women’s 200 IM: 2:08.59, Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe Africa – women’s 400 IM: 4:29.89, Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe Americas (9) WSCA Newsletter Vol 08 Issue 4 3 Americas – women’s 50 free: 24.07, Dara Torres, USA Americas – women’s 100 free (equaled): 53.39, Natalie Coughlin, USA Americas – women’s 200 free: 1:55.78, Katie Hoff, USA Americas – women’s 100 back: 58.94, Natalie Coughlin, USA (relay lead-off) Americas – women’s 200 breaststroke (see WR) Americas – women’s 100 fly: 57.08, Christine Magnuson, USA Americas – women’s 400 free relay: 3:34.33, USA Americas – women’s 800 free relay: 7:46.33, USA Americas – women’s 400 medley relay: 3:53.30, USA Asia (8) Asia – women’s 100 free: 53.34, Yingwen Zhu, China Asia – women’s 200 free: 1:55.05, Jiaying Pang, China Asia – women’s 200 back: 2:07.13, Reiko Nakamura, Japan Asia – women’s 100 fly: 57.54, Li Tao, Singapore Asia – women’s 200 fly (see WR) Asia – women’s 400 free relay: 3:35.64, China Asia – women’s 800 free relay: 7:45.93, China Asia – women’s 400 medley relay: 3:56.11, China Europe (7) Europe – women’s 50 free (see Olympic Record) Europe – women’s 200 free (see WR) Europe – women’s 800 free (see WR) Europe – women’s 100 back: 59.05, Gemma Spofforth, Great Britain (relay lead-off) Europe – women’s 100 breaststroke: 1:06.08, Yuliya Efimova, Russia Europe – women’s 200 breaststroke: 2:23.02, Sara Nordenstam, Norway Europe – women’s 800 free relay: 7:49.76, Italy Europe – women’s 400 medley relay: 3:57.50, Great Britain Oceania (11) Oceania – women’s 200 free (equaled): 1:56.60, Stephanie Rice, Australia (relay lead-off) Oceania – women’s 400 free: 4:04.16, Bronte Barratt, Australia Oceania – women’s 800 free: 8:22.81, Kylie Palmer, Australia Oceania – women’s 100 back: 59.33, Emily Seebohm, Australia (relay lead-off) Oceania – women’s 200 back: 2:08.09, Meagen Nay, Australia Oceania – women’s 100 fly: 56.73, Libby Trickett, Australia Oceania – women’s 200 IM (see WR) Oceania – women’s 400 IM (see WR) Oceania – women’s 400 free relay: 3:35.05, Australia Oceania – women’s 800 free relay (see WR) Oceania – women’s 400 medley relay (see WR) World Records – Mens (11) Men’s 100 free: 47.05, Eamon Sullivan, Australia (semi 2) 47.20, Alain Bernard, France (semi 1) 47.24, Eamon Sullivan, Australia (relay lead off) (old = 47.50, Alain Bernard, France, March 2008) Men’s 200 free: 1:42.96, Michael Phelps, USA (old = 1:43.86, Phelps, March 2007) Men’s 100 back: 52.54, Aaron Peirsol, USA (old = 52.89, Peirsol, July 2008) Men’s 200 back: 1:53.94, Ryan Lochte, USA (old = 1:54.32, Lochte-March 2007 & Aaron Peirsol, USA-July 2008) Men’s 100 breaststroke: 58.91, Kosuke Kitajima, Japan (old = 59.13, Brendan Hansen, USA, August 2006) Men’s 200 fly: 1:52.03, Michael Phelps, USA (old = 1:52.09, Phelps, March 2007) Men’s 200 IM: 1:54.23, Michael Phelps, USA (old = 1:54.80, Phelps, July 2008) Men’s 400 IM: 4:03.84, Michael Phelps, USA (old = 4:05.25, Phelps, June 2008) Men’s 400 free relay: 3:08.24, USA (Phelps, Weber-Gale, Jones, Lezak)-finals 3:12.23, USA (Adrian, Jones, Wildman-Tobriner, Grevers)- prelims (old = 3:12.46, USA, August 2006) Men’s 800 free relay: 6:58.56, USA (Phelps, Lochte,