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Welcome to Richfield Swimming!
Welcome to the internet home of the Richfield Swim Club. Swimmers have many clubs to choose from in the Twin Cities area. These pages include information that will help you to learn more about the Richfield Swim Club and its program.
MISSION STATEMENT
Through the best coaching at all ability levels, each swimmer is given the opportunity to achieve competitive success at the highest levels. Our focus on team values and a sense of community within our competitive swim family propels the team to achieve its visions.
The coaching staff creates an environment that nurtures teamwork, friendship, fun, healthy competition, good sportsmanship, and a strong sense of team. These values, along with attention to the teaching of life skills, prepare our athletes for life’s greatest challenges!
Our coaches seek to maximize every swimmer’s potential by providing a goal-oriented technique-based progressive skill development program in an ability-based structure. We support our coaches by providing ongoing educational opportunities. We seek to retain our swimmers by promoting a life-long love of the sport, managing their long-term development, asking for a progressive swimmer commitment over time, and providing team travel opportunities that create lasting memories.
A strong commitment by all families is essential to maximizing overall program success. Let the coaching staff coach and, as parents, learn the difference between encouragement and coaching. Parents should provide encouragement.
ABOUT THE RICHFIELD SWIM PROGRAM
Richfield Swim Club, as a member of USA Swimming, seeks to foster the growth and development of young people through participation in age group and senior swimming. Richfield Swim Club provides an environment in which swimmers of all levels may develop to their fullest extent. The process of development and achievement is designed to carry over into personal development outside swimming. Richfield Swim Club will promote conditioning, nutrition, good health, and good sportsmanship as lifetime priorities.
Coaching of the new and/or young swimmer is oriented towards the development of the basics in swimming including the four strokes, turns and starts. Our emphasis in the early development stages is to foster an enjoyment of the sport and will include, along with technique work, a certain amount of fun and games. The more experienced swimmer will be exposed to coaching that becomes increasingly oriented toward conditioning and advanced training concepts covering areas that include mental preparation and nutrition. A balance between technique work and conditioning is struck by gearing the pre-season to a greater degree of technique with a gradual shift to conditioning training as the season progresses.
The Richfield Swim Club coaching staff is composed of people with a great
deal of enthusiasm, dedication to swimmers, and a continuing desire to
learn. The Staff is currently comprised of many coaches with many years of
age group and senior coaching experience. Frequent staff meetings are
designed to knit together a cohesive approach to coaching and to generate a
meaningful exchange of ideas that will benefit both coaches and swimmers.
With the development of swimmers as competitors comes the growth and maturation of an individual through discipline, hard work, trial and error, success and failure. It is important to realize that while swimming can make for a small world, it must be only a part of an individual’s life. The most successful swimmers have a good deal of positive support from parents, who realize that swimming is only a compliment to the development of their child and not the child’s only reason for existing. The experience of swimming can be most beneficial if the goal setting process is carried out by the swimmer only, and not by the parent. It is from this perspective that the most lasting value is realized from the Richfield Swim Club program. Viewed in this respect, swimming can be a most enjoyable sport that is both exciting and useful.