There will be 2 groups for Dolphins, Orcas, and Sharks; Dolphins 1, Dolphins 2 etc.
All group 1 swimmers will swim Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons with the option of Saturday morning (highly encouraged). Group 2 swimmers will swim Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings (slightly longer sessions). Swimmers may swim either afternoons or mornings, but not both - this is because we will duplicate the work from a Monday afternoon at the Tuesday morning session - a systematic approach to ensuring all swimmers receive a complete skill and conditioning program.
A couple of changes to session times have been made for senior squads also - please check these out - from communication that I have had over the past day or two, these should be well received.
It is important that we make these changes as we, the coaching staff cannot deliver a world class program using the previous (current) model. As I explained to a group this morning: if each session we offered held an ingredient (5 sessions = 5 ingredients) to a cake, we need all of those ingredients to finish with a cake. If one swimmer attends session 1, 3, and 5; they will miss out on ingredient 2 & 4. They won't have a cake, but three ingredients all mixed up.
Our systematic approach will ensure our swimmers have cake.
I realise that mid-year changes are difficult on scheduling busy kids, but we don't want to wait two more seasons before making improvements - It does a disservice to our swimmers!
