New Year, New Term, New Team!

By | 17 January 2025

This Sunday we were delighted to welcome 3 new Skills Coaches (Colin (Wincanton), Daisy (Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater) and Ellen (Wincanton)) and 5 new swimmers to our programme. We were also supported by 4 Team Managers (Jack, Irene, Liz and Paul) and by Kelly Podbury, the SASA Competitions Secretary, who stepped in to run the programme for the first time – thank you to one and all!

This session saw the groups receiving personal set prescription along with an opportunity to practice their dive skills within the Long Course format, ready for the County Championships.

At CDP, swimmers consistently practice their underwater phase as it is important to maximise the fastest part of each race. Each session the swimmers undertake a Test Set, completing a set number of lengths ‘marked’ on how many turns they can complete with the prescribed underwater distance achieved – a distance which gets more challenging for the older groups of swimmers.

Overall the percentage success rate for our youngest group has improved from just over 82% getting their feet past the flags underwater after each turn, to nearly 90% – an impressive achievement in its own right but even more so as this was achieved in the harder Long Course format!

At CDP we are keen to support the development of coaches throughout Somerset. Any coach or potential coach can come to CDP to observe or for a taster session and we have already welcomed 5 coach observers and 3 young volunteers poolside.

Our next session is on the 16th February so just let us know if you’d like to come along.

14th January 2025


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