connecting bottom to top - swimming coach · • aug 13th, 2006, nitro was introduced • june,...
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Mike and Tracy Koleber, Owners
Connecting Bottom to Top
Several paths, we’re only one way
Timeline
• 2001, Board Run Team, 70 kids • Outdoors, Leased Pool, 6 lanes • I’m planning on… • Aug 13th, 2006, Nitro was Introduced • June, 2007, Opened our Cedar Park location • Coach Owned, Indoors, 25 yds x 50 meters • Separate Lessons Pool
May 2011
• Opened 2nd Location • 1500 +/- Registered Swimmers Currently
Where Do All Roads Begin?
• Lessons, Lessons, Lessons!!
Lessons Numbers
• Monthly tuition: $74 • # of kids enrolled: ______ • DACA Story
The Nitro Way
New Swimmer Evaluations 48/28
Team Numbers
• A little misleading • Competitive/Casually Competitive • $2.85/Hour vs $14.41/Hour • Intro to Nitro (Bob Gillette) • $12.24/Hour • Evals – What do MOST parents want?
USA Swimming Build a Pool Conference
• Lori Klatt • Mike Curran • My turn – 25 yd vs 50 m • “Puddles” • No parenthesis ( ) • Mick’s last slide
Connecting Bottom & Top
• Space advantage
“Over” Protective
• 16-17 yr olds • Lost some kids as a result • 200 Free Relay • Constant messages
Our Age Group Parents are plugged in
• National Group trips • Accolades • College tour recaps • Recruiting trips • Bring it back to the pool
Club vs HS
• Not mutually exclusive in our eyes • One thing all High Schoolers LOVE to wear…
The Energy of the Pool Deck
• “This is what it’s supposed to look like.” –Eddie Reese
• We attempt to outcoach each other every day • When it comes down to it, your program is really
a “feeling.” How are you making people “feel” every day, every interaction?
• Leave them with positive feelings (end of practice)
• “You’re only as good as your bad days” – Tim O’Brien, Nitro National Coach
Tomorrow’s Nitro
• Always evaluating • CANI (Constant & Never Ending Improvement) • Embrace mistakes, admit when wrong, explain
why • “All you can do is all you can do.” • At Nitro, you’re just a #...