Training Plans for Swimmers

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November 2, 2009 at 12:44 am

(1) Andr'e Yanez says:

I have a question? I hope someone could answer. My daughter is on a swim team and our team has to renegotiate swim lanes and times in January. There is someone who says they want to start a team and they are complaining that they want the same lane time and hours that our team has, however they have no swimmers yet. We live in a small rural town and the town is not big enough for two teams, we can barely get kids to join the team now. Our question is:

How many kids do you think should be swimming in a lane,

and next,

Do you know of a fair equitable policy for lane time, we have 37 kids on our team, the other person has none, but crying descrimination. Shouldn’t the amount of kids that a group have on a team, have first choice of days and times?

Thanks for your help,

Andr’e Yanez

November 4, 2009 at 8:48 am

(2) Swim Coach says:

I am a coach in a small town (40,000). We have five high school teams and a YMCA team. There are only two pool sin town. Number of kids in a lane is hard. In a 25 yard pool, you can have almost 10 kids in a lane IF they are close to each other in ability. When you have a large spectrum of ability, you will need more lanes to accommodate.
Seems like your real issue may be with the facility manager or coach and how they are relaying information. Sometimes these things can be more rumor then anything else. Typically, everyone involved wants the best for all the swim programs. It just takes good communication to make sure no one feels left out. With these situations, typically parents are the last ones to get information, because when it goes to parents it needs to be concrete.

November 11, 2009 at 9:05 am

(3) G says:

Hey Andr’e as coach says its all about the swimmers range of ability. I know for a fact that one the the top pool here in the UK will limit you to only 12 in a lane, and thats a 50m pool. The most I would have in one lane is 11, but they are my top end swimmers who know about distance, spacing and also hitting the pacing speeds, they organise themselves.