Owning your swimming

Take pride in your swimming and care about what you are doing. The more you care about what you are doing the more the coaches will care and the better you will perform.

With Silver Tide we pride ourselves in developing better people through swimming and instilling the life skills that are necessary to be successful in all aspects of your life. Time management, a desire to succeed and do your best along with self responsibility top the list of skills that we want you to have when you leave our program. This message is about self responsibility.

As a student, especially in highschool when you have too many unexcused absences you receive a suspension and if you miss a test or assignment on one of those days more often then not you will also receive a zero for that test or assignment (this will vary by school). When you have a job if you just decide not to show up one day or send a message with a co worker to the boss that you will not be coming into work today you may get a warning or maybe not and then you will be fired. This is life and I want all of you to use this skill in all aspects of it. As members of the senior group, YOU need to be equally responsible towards your swimming (not your parents). There are many means of letting me know, e-mail, text etc all you have to do is use them.

By doing this you show that you are responsible and have thought out your decision not to attend. This demonstrates how much you care and value your swimming and as a result tells me how much the coaches and your parents should care about your swimming.

With proper time management skills little if anything will get in the way of your swimming if you truly value it and if something does come up odds are it did not happen just before practice.

To hold you all to this starting in November I will be publishing monthly attendance and will seperate the informed and uninformed absenses. This is simply to hold you accountable for your swimming and to help you understand how much you have actually missed or how dedicated you actually are.

Most if not all of you are already training as fast as you ever have. This is a great sign as we head into our first year as a large club with Westerns and Age group trials in our own back yard this swim season it is time to really keep the Tide on the rise!