For more than forty years, the American Swimming Coaches Association has presented two major awards at its Annual Awards Banquet at the ASCA World Clinic. They are among the most prestigious awards in coaching.<\/p>\n
The first award is the ASCA Coach of the Year. Presented since 1961, when famed Coach James \u201cDoc\u201d Counsilman was the first recipient, the award recognizes the coach who has contributed the most to the success of American Swimming in the International arena in that year. It is the most widely revered award in the world of swimming, given the prominence of American Swimming in the sport.<\/p>\n
The second award given has been the ASCA AGE GROUP Coach of the Year. This award has recognized fifty coaches each year, one from each of the United States\u2019 Local Swimming Communities. In 2014, this award is being upgraded through a partnership between ASCA and the FITTER AND FASTER SWIM TOUR. Ten Age Group Coaches will be recognized and determined at a national level with a new award called the Fitter & Faster Swim Tour Age Group Coach of the Year Award.<\/p>\n
Ten coaches will be named as \u2018finalists\u2019 for the award, and they, along with the eventual winner, will be honored at the annual World Swim Clinic. The Fitter and Faster Swim Tour\u2019s sponsorship will help fund the travel expenses for all 10 finalists to the World Clinic, and it will also provide a financial award to the eventual winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really believe in this award,\u201d Fitter & Faster Tour\u2019s founder and director, David Arluck, said. \u201cOur clinics are all about connecting the success of our clinicians back to the habits, skills and passion they developed at the age group level, and sharing what they have learned with the next generation of athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we felt like this new ASCA Age Group Coach of the Year award was a good fit for our organization. It recognizes the accomplishments of the age group coaches who thrive on the opportunity to cultivate the talent of swimmers of all ability levels, keep swimmers in the sport, and lay the foundation for athletes to achieve success at the collegiate, national and international level.\u201d<\/p>\n
ASCA CEO John Leonard says that this award has been designed to highlight the importance of great age group coaching to future success in the sport in the United States. This program will supersede the old concept of having an Age Group Coach of the Year in each LSC.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited about this new partnership, and it\u2019s a natural fit,\u201d Arluck concluded. \u201cWe believe that the award recognizes the grass-roots level of American swimming; an essential piece of the puzzle for why the Americans have been the world\u2019s dominant swim team for over a century. By presenting this award at the ASCA World Clinic, we are uniting Olympic, World Championship, and national-level success of the Coach of the Year Award with the significant achievement of the Age Group Coach of the Year award. This is a natural step from what we do every day in our Fitter & Faster Tour clinics, where we unite those international-level athletes with those who comprise the foundation of the sport: the age group swimmers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The New System<\/b><\/p>\n
Ten Finalists will be selected by an ASCA Age Group Coach of the Year Committee. That committee will include David Arluck as an advisor, and he will have a vote as well.<\/p>\n
Finalists and winners will be based on performances of athletes aged 11-14, and will be a data-driven process. Examples of data that might be used include:<\/p>\n
Virtual Club Championship rankings per athlete, thus rewarding smaller clubs that are producing a high density of quality performances
\nVirtual Club Championship year-over-year improvements
\nNational Age Group Records
\nTop 10 Rankings
\nTop 100 All-Time Rankings
\nAthlete retention rates<\/p>\n
The above article is a press release submitted to Swimming World. To reach our audience, contact us at newsmaster@swimmingworldmagazine.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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