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CVST Coaching Staff Announces Fall Group Changes The CVST Coaching Staff has released the Fall 2014 Practice Group Changes. Congratulations to the following swimmers: Moving from Bronze to Silver-Gold: Ava Edwards, Cat Salgado, Madison Ratchford, Jayden Repak Moving from Silver-Gold to Senior 2: Emma Herron
2014 Pan Pacific Championships The 2014 Pan Pacific Championships will feature over 300 of the world’s top swimmers from the USA, Japan, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia. The meet takes place Aug. 21 – 24 in Gold Coast, Australia, with the open water competition Aug. 25. Be sure to watch taped delayed coverage of the meet from on NBC Aug. 23 2:30 – 3:30 EDT and Aug. 24 1:00 – 2:30pm EDT. Check your local listings for time and channel in your area. Live coverage will be Omega...
Being a Part of the Team: The Positive Parent Role From the TrueSport Newsletter While the athlete and coach roles in youth sports are easy to understand, what is the role of you, the parent? Chauffeur? Fan? Financier? Support network? To learn the "do's" and "don't's" of being a TrueSport Parent, read more
Goal Setting for Young Athletes By The Foundation for Global Sports Development, January 2014 Here we find ourselves again, welcoming a new year and all it will bring into our lives. About 45% of Americans take this opportunity to set the tone for the rest of the year by making New Year’s resolutions; whereas, 38% of Americans never set specific goals for the New Year. It’s easy to see why so many people opt out of making resolutions, because only 8% of people actually achieve their goal. As with most...
Free Parent Webinar “Overcoming Adversity in Sports and Life” Dear CVST Parent, If you’re serious about helping your child deal with injuries, slumps, unfairness, setbacks, and disappointment check out the “Parents” section of the USA Swimmming web site (Growing Champions for Life) where you’ll find the registration link to this month’s Life-Skills Webinar, “Overcoming Adversity in Sports and Life” scheduled for Wednesday, August 20th. This month’s True Hero Parent article, “Does Your Support Have Strings Attached” is a thought provoking look at how easy it is for adults to add...
Lauren Kenny - CVST August Swimmer of the Month The Carrollwood Village Swim Team has named Lauren Kenny (12) as its August Swimmer of the Month. At the Area 3&5 Swimming Championships held August 1-3 at St. Petersburg’s North Shore Pool, Kenny (12) dropped a total of One minute fifteen seconds and fifty-three one-hundredths. Lauren’s big drop came in her 200 yard Individual Medley where she knocked forty-three seconds off of her previous personal best. Lauren also had huge time drops in her 100 yard Freestyle where she dropped...
Zambito Named July SOM The CVST Coaching Staff named Maria Zambito (19) as the CVST 2014 July Swimmer of the Month. Maria gets this honor based mostly on her performance at the 2014 USA Swimming Southern Zone Senior Championships. The meet was held at Florida Gulf Coast University, in Ft. Myers, July 29-August 2. At the meet Zambito swam a multitude os events including 8 individual events and 4 relays. She swam lifetime bests in 6 of her 8 individual events dropping a total of 48.80 seconds, including big...
The Secret To Acheiving That All Important Cut THE PROBLEM I was talking to a swimmer just this morning who shared with me a familiar, incredibly frustrating story. She was very close to her Olympics Trials cut for the last Olympics and hoping to make the team to represent her country. Everyone around her – her teammates, coach, parents and even this athlete herself – were convinced she'd qualify. This was because she was easily doing the time in practice. However, with each meet that went by, she...
Dr. Alan Goldberg-Sports Psychology for Athletes, Coaches & Parents Your job as a parent is to do your best to continually help them keep the bigger picture in mind. This means that when they have an absolutely dreadful performance, you help them understand that these bad performances are a normal and expected part of the sport, that you can't always be at your best and that in every bad outing lie the seeds for long term improvement. That is, "what can you learn from this that will help you...
