Over 70 Swimmers who in the 12 year old age group attended a virtual Swim England North East Region Swimming Development Camp on Saturday 10th July 2021.

The opportunity covered the following topics:

An overview of the Swim England Talent pathway structure
Technical/tactical skill development and individual medley turns and transitions.
Educational nutrition and lifestyle areas.

In addition, the swimmers were given access to some elite athlete talks by inspirational swimmers who have been selected as part of Team GB for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. These covered:

Physical Growth and Development
Individual medley development

Initial feedback from the day included:

“Just to let you know that my daughter really enjoyed yesterday’s camp. She wrote lots of notes which she told us all about with much energy and went away and created her own presentation slides on what she had learnt! A really valued opportunity and so a big thank you to everyone for their time yesterday! Super interesting!”

“Thanks very much for organising the camp. We took a lot from it and was good to know we are doing the right things and others that we can improve on to make me a better swimmer.

I especially was pleased that squash is better to drink than water and a ham sandwich is a good post snack as that’s something I do already because I like both.”

” Just wanted to say a big thankyou for the zoom meeting this morning. My son enjoyed it and was very engaged and made some good notes . Definitely lots of positives to take back to training next week. I personally was impressed how much it put the ownership onto the swimmer. ”

It’s hoped that we will be in a position to deliver a face to face camp in the autumn for selected swimmers. Further details will be shared when they are available.