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Santa Clara
Swim Club
2625 Patricia Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051
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(408) 246-5050
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Santa Clara Swim Club
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*** ATTENTION SCSC MASTERS SWIM PROGRAM
BEGINNING TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, THE EVENING MASTERS WORKOUT TIMES WILL GO FROM 6:45 PM TO 8:15 PM DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS. MORNING WORKOUT HOURS WILL REMAIN THE SAME.
The International Meet Ad Campaign is underway!!
Forms and programs are available from the Team Office.
You may also email the Sponsorship Coordinator for questions and assistance at sponsorshipcoordinator@santaclaraswimclub.org.
The deadline to submit all ads, donations and sponsorships is March 17, 2008.
SCSC House Accounts are pursued and maintained by the Sponsorship Coordinator and are not to be solicited by any family.
The list of advertisers is be pursued by families who secured them until February 17, 2008, and are available for open solicitation from February 18- March 17, 2008.
Message to our Membership,
Please remember that the advertising, donations and sponsorships you bring in support our Club and create a wonderful community where we all share and benefit from the accomplishments of our swimmers and meets we host. This happens through your efforts as a member of Santa Clara Swim Club. So let us share what Santa Clara Swim Club is about with those in our surrounding community and get their support. I understand it can be a difficult thing to ask for this kind of support. However, most companies can be a willing and a very generous donor. Thank you all for taking the time and effort to talk with all the businesses you do business with to get an ad, donation or sponsorship from.
Denise D. Winer
BOD President
Tuesdays are SCSC Family NightsHello Everyone,
Today is the first Tuesday of November and it is SCSC Family Night at Kirk’s Steakburger!! Every Tuesday is SCSC Family Night at Kirk’s Steakburger!! So take advantage of someone else cooking dinner for you…have a steakburger, have a grilled chicken sandwich, have a salad. Kirk’s is within walking distance of the Swim Club at 2605 Homestead Road. 20% of every meal an SCSC person or family orders at Kirk’s and tells them they are from SCSC goes into the fundraising account for SCSC. So take a stroll over to Kirk’s tonight for dinner. Just remember to tell them that you are from SCSC. Thank you for your help in fundraising for your Swim Club.
Santa Clara Swim Club boasts the premier Masters program in the South Bay. The program is designed as a fitness program, allowing the intended swimmer an opportunity to receive quality sets aimed at pushing the individual's level of conditioning. We are not a program that is designed to offer stroke corrections or create an environment that fosters a learn-to-swim type attitude. We are willing to offer advice if asked and we have a quality staff that is available for one-on-ones if desired, but these need to be arranged personally between the swimmer and instructor. We feel we best maximize our ability to offer a quality, structured swim environment through this approach. Our goal is to provide sets that challenge, a workout routine that if followed will provide excellent conditioning, and if desired and done so proactively stroke corrections, etc. are available to those seeking such additions to their swimming regime.
What makes Masters swimming such an unique swimming environment is that it gives every individual an opportunity to find their place within a given workout session. Unlike the purely competitive swim environment of the USS, Masters swimming is filled with diversity in age, ability, and level of commitment, that no one should feel intimidated by the chance to get involved. Many programs do have former Olympians or other "serious" former swimmers, but they may also have numerous first timers who have found the joy of swimming later in life. How this all blends together is what makes each program unique and successful for the individuals enrolled. How to get involved with the right program for you may take some testing of the waters, but you will find the right one if you stay with it, ask questions, and find the right mix of people to swim with.What defines one Master swimmer from another? In your typical Masters workout, you have two groups of athletes participating, the competitive, and the non-competitive swimmer. The competitive swimmer being that individual who has made a commitment to themselves to being active in some form of competition, be it pool races, open water, triathlons, etc. The non-competitive swimmer is that swimmer who enjoys the pure fitness benefits the sport of swimming offers in terms of cardiovascular fitness, stress reduction, weight control, etc. Within the competitive environment you also have varying degrees of swimming background and commitment. In many workout sessions you have that group of so-called "fasties" in the first couple of lanes, swimming back and forth with a look of ease. Many of these swimmers have had an enormous competitive background growing up and for them going to the swimming pool for workout is something they probably have done most of their life. Most swimming jargon is second-hand and they find Masters swimming a natural transition from their days of age group, high school, or college swimming. Within the competitive swim environment is the fastest growing group of athletes to the sport who up to now may not possess the extensive background of swim competition. Many of these newly competitive swimmers are triathletes and/or late bloomers to the sport. These swimmers tend to want stroke technique, need assistance in pacing, and descending sets or best average sets are new to their vocabulary. Also being comfortable swimming other strokes besides freestyle may take some time. It is this group of swimmers though, that provides the greatest opportunity for accomplishment in the Masters workout setting. This is the group hungry to learn, able to understand, and ready to listen to advice on stroke and swim training that will help them improve. The non-competitive swimmer is that individual who may try the workout or may just opt for their own lap swimming. These swimmers find the sport of swimming to be enjoyable and beneficial for them as an excellent form of exercise and they have chosen to make swimming a daily part of their life. Assistance with helping them to better maximize their time in the pool is usually a positive step towards encouraging them to become an active member of a workout session.
How does a Masters program work for all these groups? All swimmers, regardless of their ability and background, need to feel welcomed and at ease with what is going on in a workout. Swim sets, while it is fun to be entertaining, must be easy to follow, understand, and provide some constructive feedback. Designing sets to make sense to every swimmer is better than designing a workout that only a few will understand. Allowing for flexibility within the workout, ie. be it with fins, paddles, buoys, etc., also gives the different diversity of swimmers a feeling that it is okay to work at a pace that is comfortable to their development. Creating a team concept where the accomplished triathlete can feel welcomed swimming with the seasoned swimmer, is another way to create an environment where diversity is accepted, not challenged. Also there are no slow swimmers, for everyone is doing their best with what they have, therefore each swimmer is trying no matter what their interval may be. The number one reason why most people get involved in a Masters program is to either become or stay fit. When you think about it for a moment, just getting such a diversity of people to go on an interval is a remarkable feat.
The Santa Clara Swim Club (SCSC) has won a reputation as one of the premier Masters programs in the South Bay. SCSC has a tradition of excellence that has produced optimal results for all swimmers. The goal at SCSC is to provide a swimming environment where the fundamentals of an efficient stroke and the skills required to feel strong and at your best in the water fulfilled. The opportunity for you to enhance your enjoyment of the sport and the water will be provided at each training session, with the goal of enabling you to reach the next level in the sport of swimming.
Masters swimming is a sport that has gained enormous popularity in the last ten years. The benefits from participation in the sport have made it extremely popular with a wide variety of people. The successful programs have learned to mesh the diversity of the participant in the sport into a program that does its best to meet everyone’s needs. The true key to any program though, comes from the individuals involved. It is up to you to make the program yours and to make it a vehicle to help you reach your potential and to reach your goals. The coaching staff is here to work with you as you set the personal goals you need to reach your success. We hope that this handbook will serve as an useful guide to our program and to the many benefits of Masters swimming and Santa Clara Swim Club.
"If One Advances Confidently In The Direction Of His Dreams, And Endeavors To Live Life Which He Has Imagined, He Will Meet With A Success Unexpected In Common Hours."
--- Henry David Thoreau
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