North Attleboro Swim Team Research Paper

My name is Alauna Torres and I am a student in the eleventh grade at Inderkum. I work hard to maintain grades in the IB Diploma program and struggle, just as any other student does. Last year, I joined Inderkum’s first swim team in six years. After practicing everyday for two hours, I made a bond with many people on my team. As a team, we couldn 't wait to get out of school, huddle together in the atrium, share food, stories, jokes, and insecurities. We tried to get everyone involved, hoping they wouldn’t feel alone or unimportant. As peers around, our job can’t always be fulfilled if our teachers, staff, and coaches don’t do the same to their students.

It tops the rankings across the board within the Pac-12 Conference, is named the No.1 overall Collegiate Athletic Program, and holds the record for a total of one hundred and twenty-six NCAA championships won. Most importantly, UCLA holds one of the most successful and competitive women’s swim team in the nation, and offers countless opportunities for swimmers like me to compete with them. Not only would I be able to swim in a state of the art facility with a championship-level swim team, but I would be able to live in one of the most exquisite and beautiful campuses in the nation. The fact that UCLA provides so many endless opportunities and rewarding paths to take, has assured me that I would never find myself stuck without interest since it offers three thousand possible courses to take. From the successes of the athletic programs, to the range of possible majors to pursue, UCLA has many factors that continue to interest me into pursuing it, and is worthy of receiving the blue and gold medal to match its blue and gold

Everyone says your team is your family, I never knew until Junior year when I joined the Elsik Varsity Swim Team. Everyone knew each other since Freshman year, I was the new bee who just entered “The Family”. Coming into that, I thought I was going to be the odd one out, I was wrong. Everyone was welcoming, I recognized some faces but just from walking in the hallways, not actually having a full blown conversation. Practices started at 5:00 A.M that year, it was terrible; when finishing practice everyone of us would go out and play cards or “I have never…”; it was crazy what some of them have done. Once season began our meets were the most exciting; that’s when others can see how we felt about our team. When one of our swimmers had an event

Going into my senior year of high school, I knew that the coming swim season was going to be very different from the previous three years. We were getting a whole new coaching staff, two swim coaches, one dive

Okay, picture this it’s the beginning of summer, it was a little before eight a.m and I had just arrived at my first swim club practice at the pool. It was my first year and I had no idea what I was doing and I was a little nervous.

In 2009, my 9-year old daughter expressed an interest in joining a swim team. After researching the options available, I signed her up for a tryout with a local club, Vancouver Swim Club (VSC). Once complete, Meghan was assigned to the novice instructor, with the suggestion that she swim at least three times a week, and improve her proficiency with the required strokes. Over the next four years, she trained, and improved her skills, while I had the opportunity to grow in many areas in the larger VCS support organization.

I have not had an experience as a supervisor at work yet; however, I was once a team leader of high school swimming team. We had around fifteen members. As a team leader, I was in charge of strengthening the swim team, making effective day to day training programs, and creating the best atmosphere for the team to concentrate to training or competitions. Strengthening and making each members the best physically and emotionally condition for competition was the ultimate goal for me as a leader. Moreover, maintaining members’ health condition was also a part of my responsivities. Since in the winter time we occasionally practiced in the temperature of water 50 Fahrenheit, maintaining their health condition was essential.

As I arrived to practice one Saturday morning, I saw many teammates huddled together crying, as well as the absence of our coach. I rushed over to grasp an understanding of the circumstance. Our coach had left our team for business reasons and complaints in order to start a new swim club. That was one of the most difficult practices to get through. There were a ton of questions and an insignificant amount of answers.

Personally after reviewing Swim n’ Sport, I find the business quite intriguing but, I would not choose to work for the company. I’ve worked in a high end retail store very similar to Swim n’ Sport, it was a unique job mostly because the majority of the clientele were wealthy. Working my way up the corporate ladder is a big part of what I will be looking for in a future/stable job and Swim n’ Sport doesn't seem to have an acceptable background of promotional opportunities. I see working for this company as a good starter job for someone young wanting to acquire knowledge in retail sales, unless having the right connections.

When I was a freshman in high school, one of my good friends asked me if I would like to join the high school swim team. At the time, I was naive and did not do my research to see if I was physically or mentally capable of being on a semi-professional swim team. On the first day of practice, the coach barked at us to get in the water. I was unknowingly launched into 60 degrees and told to swim a “500”. Of course I did not know how to swim a “500”, nor did I know what a “500” was. I barely knew how to swim recreationally without doggy-paddling. I tried to follow the juniors and seniors in front of me. They appeared to be doing the “crawl” or as my coach called it “freestyle”. The hardest part about the way I was swimming was that water got

Swimming has been in my life for several years and counting. In 2010, my parents put me on my first ever swimming team.They were called the Foxcroft Fins, and they were a summer league team. I wasn't very good at the time, but my family helped me become a better swimmer. Over the years, my skill in the sport of swimming grew exceptionally, and made me consider joining a competitive swim team. In 2012, my friend convinced me to join a competitive swim team called Quest Swimming. Quest Swimming is a competitive swim team that has been around for more than forty years. My first practice there was a total disaster, I felt like I was drowning in an endless ocean.

Sure, I don't do well under pressure and sometimes I get super frustrated when my swim times don't reach my expectations, but swimming has taught me so much. I learned to succeed on my own and accept the blame that comes with failure since swimming is an individual sport. Also to support my teammates even though it is an individual sport. So much of our success has come from believing in each other. We won conference swimming two years in a row now, a first for Worland, and came in second at state, our highest finish ever. Finally, I don't think I would've developed the friendships I have now if I didn't swim. It forced me to branch out and learn to make new friends since most of my original group did volleyball. Truly, middle school influenced the course of my life

The summer of 2016 was going to be a great summer- so I thought. I used to be a part of the Rams Swim Club for 9 years before I decided that I needed to find a new swim team. Not because the practices were too hard, but because my coach was unsupportive. My coach, who will remain unnamed for her sake, was never willing to be a coach that was supportive of her swimmers. She would sit on her phone our entire practice, and she never once paid attention to us. I had to be a leader through this time in my life. I had to respond to her actions and words in a compassionate way. I had to always keep a positive attitude during the time that she was coaching me. There were many instances where I disagreed with what she said, but I did not want to be

For some people, swimming has been a part of their lives from a young age. For other people, while they want to be a good swimmer, they only have a little swimming experience. Luckily, at Merritt Clubs, we offer assorted competitive swimming programs, perfect for people no matter their age or swimming background.

In September 2012 I was registered for my first swim meet. I was apprehensive and felt totally unprepared. I had learnt all the strokes, but had not gained proficiency in any of them. The meet was a complete disaster, and I ended up coming in last. The second swim meet was no better. I thought that over time my improvement would speak for itself, but I was wrong. After a few meets, I was still ranked below division C, and no where close to making it into A division. Although I trained harder and improved in each meet, it was not enough to reach my goal. After another failed meet, my father had a chat with me. In this conversation my father explained to me “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later