Big Clubs tend to develop fast swimmers. Why is this? The idea that kids swimming within a large group have a better chance of having training partners. You have more swimmers pushing them at practice, so every swimmer working hard is one more piece of the puzzle to making your team faster.crowded lanes and choppy water. It's harder swim in that condition. Think about how great they feel in the race when they have a lane to themselves. Big clubs also have the ability to handle drop out. Retention is not 100%. Kids choose other sports; or just decide that they can't push themselves harder than before, so their times become stagnant. Sometimes a late bloomer feels like they will never catch up to their peers, or a early developed swimmer gets frustrated because everyone is getting closer to their times. Retention is hard for clubs, but a well developed team keeps the kids in the water to continue to keep kids pushing hard to achieve.
Our club will be hosting our Junior Olympics for the 4th time this summer. Our Head Coach and myself believe that that is an indication that we are a developed and organized club. We have things together to develop fast swimmers. This prestige of hosting such a meet, carries into the mind set of swimmers. A belief that we are a top teir team. We believe that this has been a contributor to our development in our team. We take pride that people like to attend our JO's and we always get compliments for a well ran meet. (These comments despite our team realizing all the missteps that we have taken. We are more critical of our execution of a meet.)
In building the team, a team recognizing the swimmers reaching the high levels. These swimmers train together along with others and they should be pushing each other to reach the level of the fastest swimmers in the group. My coaches growing up always coached towards the fastest swimmer, and then we were to try our best to hang in with them. We all became better swimmers trying to keep up with our fastest swimmers.
Big numbers. Hosting big meets with pride. Training towards the top of the group to develop the entire group in general. You build this, and you have yourself a machine. Swimmers come in, they get fast because of what has been laid before them. You need to build it and that takes time, but it does create fast swimmers.
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