SwimSwam took a drive down the road from Austin, TX to Bee Caves, where Nitro Swimming had a combined practice of their 2 top groups (National groups from the Bee Cave and Cedar Park locations). The main set had 2 parts, each part consisting of 3 different groups.
For part 1, the athletes split into sprint, IM, and distance free. We took a look at the sprint group, run by Patrick McClosky, who has volunteered under booth Dave Salo at USC and Eddie Reese at Texas. Today, he was emulating a ‘Sprint Salo’ set.
For part 2, the athletes were separated into fly, back and breast groups, where we followed coaches Charlie and Randy, who were running the breaststroke and backstroke groups. The practice ended with a mixed 200 free relay off the blocks.
Meh, I don’t know. Seems very collegiate for an age group program. With all the water you’d think they’d be ranked higher. What do kids have to adapt to in college if they train like college kids in HS? If weights and short repeats are it, it seems like they will plateau in college. Call it what you will, “old school” training in age group yearly is still dominating the improvement metrics in collegiate improvement possibilities. Not many HS athletes being trained like collegiate athletes make large strides in collegiate environments.
Are you suggesting doing inferior “old school” training in HS just so a swimmer can have bigger improvements in college?
Balance, coordination, alignment, spatial awareness. They seem to be working on all 4 areas in this video. Not sure how collegiate that is, but all 4 are absolutely imperative in age group swimming. The swimmers seem to be having fun and good feedback from coaches. Not sure how this is a bad thing.
Those are some quick relay splits for the end of practice from a bunch of high schoolers. Really impressive stuff
Sonny and Ella 🙌🏼
Go Nitro!!! These people know how to WORK 💪🔥
Curious about what the boards are at the end of each lane. Is this meant to keep the deck dry? Never seen that before.
We call them Splash Guards. Correct, on keeping the water off deck/ Dryland space.
I know this one, because once upon a time, I thought I wanted to make a living by opening a pool and running a swim team out of it, and Mike gave me and a guy I was in cahoots with a full tour of the facility.
Water is expensive for a swimming facility. Even more expensive than plain water is heated and treated water. So that’s the homemade invention to keep as much heated-and-treated water in the pool as they could.
Austin has some of the best teams in the US right now. The High School scene has to be nasty this year.