Squad Ethos and Aims 

 

The GIS swim team aims to provide coaching and learning opportunities that suit as wide a range of abilities and ages as possible. We aim to treat all swimmers as equal regardless of gender, age or ability and expect swimmers themselves to adopt the same ethos. In addition, we recognise that swimmers will all have their own aims and targets which are varying in levels of ambition and that this should be acknowledged. Not all swimmers are aiming to be World Champions and the key focus should be enjoyment.

 The type of coaching we provide has a very holistic approach which is based on the belief that we need to develop the individual as a whole and not just from the physical perspective of skills and drills. We nurture independence in swimmers and expect them to take ever increasing responsibility for their own development. In addition to the physical aspects of coaching we also focus greatly on intellectual understanding of key concepts and principles, psychological aspects of training/competition and personal values and qualities involved in competitive sport.

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