ESTRUCTURA DE EQUIPO
TEAM MANAGEMENT
The Gator Swim Team is owned by the Alameda Swimming Pool Association (ASPA) and managed with the assistance of the Alameda Gators Parent Board. ASPA provides pool time at Lincoln and Franklin pools, primary insurance for our swimmers, pays benefits and salaries to our coaches and helps purchase equipment. The Parent Board manages all of the day-to-day administrative aspects of the program (membership, billing and payments, team events, etc.). For a list of current board members and their contact information, see the Coaching Staff and Parent Board Members sections of our website.
TEAM COMMUNICATION
CORREO ELECTRÓNICO
The vast majority of team communications are conducted via email. Please make sure that your email address is up to date in your account on our website, and please pay attention to announcements and emails that you receive from us. We will do our best to communicate with you in a timely manner, but families are also responsible for staying actively informed, by checking our website regularly and communicating with their coaches whenever they have questions or concerns.
CELL PHONES
For parents of older swimmers, the Pre-Senior and Senior coaches often communicate practice changes and other information to their teen swimmers by cell phone. If your swimmer carries a cell phone, please encourage him/her to share their number with their coach, so that last minute changes in schedules can be communicated to them directly.
TEAM DISCORD
Nuestro equipo de natación ha elegido utilizar Discord como plataforma de comunicación adicional por varias razones. Discord proporciona una interfaz sencilla y fácil de usar que nos permite coordinar fácilmente horarios de práctica, compartir anuncios importantes y discutir estrategias. Sus canales de texto facilitan una comunicación eficiente, permitiéndonos estar conectados tanto dentro como fuera de la piscina. También proporciona una manera para que los padres conversen con otros padres en sus grupos de natación para coordinar viajes compartidos y permitir que la Junta de Padres publique próximos eventos o alertas importantes para el equipo.
Para unirse a Discord, haga clic en este enlace para unirse: https://discord.gg/SHybxNVpYU; Una vez que esté en el servidor, proporcione su nombre completo, el nombre de los nadadores y el grupo con el que nadan para que podamos agregar los permisos correctos a su cuenta y abrir chats para su uso.
PRACTICE CANCELLATIONS
While we do our best to notify families ahead of time if practice will be canceled, certain situations are out of our control in this area. If a coach arrives at the pool to discover that something is broken, or if another unexpected emergency arises, practice will have to be canceled at the last minute. This happens several times every year, in spite of our best attempts to avoid it. For this reason, however, parents should NEVER drop off their swimmer at one of our pools without confirming that the coaches are there and practice will be taking place. You need not walk them to the pool area yourself every day, but please devise a plan with your swimmer for him/her to communicate with you in your car (by waving or otherwise) to let you know that the coaches are there… before you drive away!
ESTRUCTURA DE GRUPO
NOVICE GROUPS
(Copper/Nickel/Steel) This level is for the beginning swimmer who does not have much stroke experience. It is designed to introduce young swimmers to the sport of swimming while allowing maximum opportunity to participate in other activities. Emphasis is on teaching the fundamentals of the four competitive strokes by means of drills and games that make swimming fun. Workouts are about 80% stroke work and 20% conditioning.
GRUPOS JÓVENES
Our Juniors (Bronze, Silver and Gold) are the swimmers of tomorrow. This group is for swimmers with knowledge of all legal strokes and turns who are ready to learn more advanced stroke techniques. Starts, turns, finishes, and reading the pace clock are taught. The objective of the Junior group is to reach A times. Workouts are about 70% stroke work and 30% conditioning. Swimmers in the Junior group are still encouraged to try other sports and enjoy other activities.
PRE-SENIOR
This group is a transitional level in which swimmers move in to competitive training and prepare for senior-level swimming. Commitment to training increases and season planning becomes more long-term. Building the foundation for a well-rounded swimmer continues, but some specialization is introduced as individual aptitudes are discovered. Athletes continue to learn more about how to train and why they train. Goal setting is emphasized at this level and done individually with the coach. Workouts are about 50% stroke work and 50% conditioning.
GRUPOS MAYORES
(Senior Development/Senior/Senior Elite) Este nivel es para nadadores con la capacidad y ganas necesarias para entrenar y competir a nivel regional y nacional. Los nadadores senior experimentan un nivel de entrenamiento de élite en el que aprenden técnicas de brazada de última generación. Hay un enfoque en la frecuencia cardíaca y el entrenamiento en ciclos aeróbicos y anaeróbicos. Estos nadadores participan en competiciones nacionales e internacionales donde compiten contra nadadores de todo el mundo. Los nadadores senior deberían considerar la natación como su actividad atlética número uno. Se llevan a cabo entrenamientos por la mañana y por la tarde para desarrollar a estos nadadores a su máximo potencial. Al igual que en el grupo pre-senior, la fijación de objetivos se realiza de forma individual con el entrenador. De acuerdo con la filosofía del equipo, incluso en el nivel senior, las prácticas todavía están diseñadas para ayudar a nadadores de diferentes habilidades a alcanzar sus objetivos personales.
EL DEPORTE DE LA NATACIÓN EN ESTADOS UNIDOS - CÓMO NOS ADAPTAMOS
United States Swimming, Inc. (USA-S) is the governing body for all amateur swimming in the United States. Its national headquarters is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It registers athletes, sanctions events, and conducts local, regional, and national competitions. USS is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA). Each year USA-S publishes United States Swimming Rules and Regulations which describe legal strokes and give the time standards for the year, records, and meet information.
USA-S is divided geographically into regions or associations, referred to as Local Swimming Committees, or LSCs. Although each LSC operates under a constitution and bylaws laid down by the national organization, each association is, to a great extent, governed by home rule. Each association elects its own officers, appoints its own committees, and conducts a program of athletic promotion and development within its territories and takes part in the various championships sponsored by the national organization.
Los Gators son miembros del Pacific Swimming LSC (PC), que abarca la mayor parte del norte de California y la parte noroeste de Nevada. Pacific Swimming se divide a su vez en cuatro zonas. Estamos en la Zona 2, que incluye todos los condados de Alameda y Contra Costa y una parte del Valle de San Joaquín. La mayoría del equipo, como nadadores de grupos de edad, nadan principalmente en competencias autorizadas por Pacific Swimming.
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