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Navigate to Swim & Water Polo Camp, SDA15 lesson #s: Overview, To Do List

Calendar span: M T W Th F
Week 1, June 29-July 2 1 2 3 4
Week 2, July 6-10 5 6 7 8 9
Week 3, July 13-17 10 11 12 13 14
Week 4, July 20-24 15 16 17 18 19
Week 5, July 27-31 20 21 22 23 24
Week 6, August 3, 4, 5 25 26 27

Lesson Plan Overview: Swim & Water Polo Camp[]

Working Document prepared by Mark Rauterkus, 412-298-3432, Mark@Bloomfield-Garfield.org.

Supplements:[]

Pending and Looming[]

The lessons and activities for Swim & Water Polo Camp, SDA15, are taking shape and follow. The delivery of these lessons depends upon factors not fully in control of the BGC's Executive Head Coach as PPS has not yet provided pool permit insights.

Overview:[]

Weekly and daily plans are suggestions and not exclusive locks. Each site has its own leadership and logistics that can impact the plans, such as bus trips to pools, or not, and visits from expert coaches, or not.

Trying[]

Every day should include a little time for a review of prior skills. Quick reviews are expected. Furthermore, every day should include some challenges that are too difficult for most to do. Replace the words, "I can't do that" with "I'll try."

Trying is a key from the first moments. On the first week, swimmers are asked to try to do things that are more advanced and not yet taught. Show what you can do in trying a length of butterfly, for instance. Some participants might be able to do big things right away. We’ll have a lifeguard. Camp assistants can demonstrate. Campers can give it a whirl, straight up.

Exercises[]

Exercises are a new theme in 2015 with a few badges. Week one includes an emphasis on press ups. Do press ups with one hand, front, back, along the wall and even in the deep water. We’ll test and measure press ups for endurance and speed. By Week two, press ups continue but not with a three-time a day focus. Other strength exercises are introduced throughout the five weeks, attempting to reach benchmarks. As the kids strengthen day-to-day and week-to-week, they’ll be amazed at how they can deal with muscle soreness and how much better they can control their body weight. For example, holding a one-hand press up for 4 seconds on the first day might be improved to a 30-second one-handed press up by the last week.

Safety emphasis comes in Week 1 and 2.[]

  • Coaches expectations, pool rules, and talk of behaviors comes every day.
  • Listening to the coaches and having everyone's attention while in a busy setting (at the pool) is stressed.
  • Using the whistle as a cue is practiced. Hear the whistle, then stop. Water polo players have to really focus on the whistle and react urgently when a call is made.
  • Safety content is a cornerstone to Digital Badges / Deep Water and SKWIM / Level 1 and 2.
  • The swim content from the tablet include many safety messages and that focus comes in ==Week
  • Talk of saftey from the coaches comes in the opening of the session in the team meeting and with announcements. More talk of safety comes in the break between run and swim activities.
  • Review on SKWIM safety, Pre Lifeguard and the content on the tablets have many reinforcements to safety.

Social Skills emphasis comes in weeks 3, 4 and 5.[]

  • Efforts with the Sportsmanship and Teammate Digital Badges occur within huddles among players and coaches after in-camp competitions. Safety and injury discussions are part of those sessions.

Literacy emphasis by week:[]

  • Photos are taken and uploaded on day 1 and the journal entries happen in Week 1.
  • The A for Athlete letters are explored in week 1.
  • The A for Athlete ebook is explored in Week 2.
  • The back-up literacy project, the workbook from 4-H, is used as necessary, pending delivery of the tablets and network access at the schools.

Competitive Swimming emphasis by week:[]

  • Week 1, Freestyle, streamlines, spinning from front to side to back and staying on side for breath and recovery. Breath holding swimming and kicking.
  • Week 2, Breastroke, kicking, jumping, treading
  • Week 3, Backstroke, diving, starts
  • Week 4, Butterfly, turns, Distance per stroke
  • Week 5, Individual Medley, distance swimming, aerobic threshold

Water polo emphasis by week:[]

  • Week 1: Rules, ball handling, shooting, intro to goalie play
  • Week 2: Egg beater kicking, body positions, umbrella formation, hole play, ball side defense,
  • Week 3: Counter attacks, square out, v-back, drivers
  • Week 4: Player advantage (man-up and man-down), sloughing,
  • Week 5: Match-ups, turning your player, trick shots.

Exercise emphasis by week:[]

  • Week 1: Press ups Full range of motion, arm swing routine, ballistic stretching, medicine balls, twisting, giant steps.
  • Week 2: Static stretching, yoga stretching, partner kicking, jousting in the pool
  • Week 3: Abs, core, rings, creeping, vertical kicking, tucking
  • Week 4: Underwater kicking on back, fin kicking,
  • Week 5: Planks, wall sits.

Running Coach Insights:[]

Those in Swim & Water Polo Camp get to participate in the GNC Liberty Mile, a one-mile running race, to be held Downtown in the evening on Friday, July 31, 2015. Leading up to the race, a “running coach” is going to be visiting each camp weekly. The coach leads a workout of 30-50 minutes at the start of the session for all athletes on Tuesdays at Faison, Wednesdays at Langley and on Thursdays at Brashear/South Hills.

Permission slips pick-up contracts are expected to be mailed to all the families before camp begins. Getting the paperwork to all is a process that starts early and requires plenty of follow-up in the weeks before the special event.

The running coach is a paid position and that person is hired by the BGC via the P3R, the organization that operates the Pittsburgh Marathon and GNC Liberty Mile.


Week 1 Summary:[]

  • Freestyle, streamlines, spinning from front to side to back and staying on side for breath and recovery. Breath holding swimming and kicking.

Water Polo: Rules, ball handling, shooting, intro to goalie play

  • Exercises: Press ups Full range of motion, arm swing routine, ballistic stretching, medicine balls, twisting, giant steps.

Literacy: Get photos of every student. Get wiki pages for every student. Get every staff member to master the TeamUnify attendance app. Introduction of Digital Badges. Work on Digital Badges, SKWIM/Level 1, Deep Water, Steps.


Site Specific Notes:[]

Camp Faison, 25 in Swim & Water Polo. They should swim most days at Citiparks Homewood Pool. We'd love to swim one day per ==Week at Westinghouse Pool. The Liberty Mile day, July 31, 2015, is with swimming on the Northside at Citiarks Sue Murray Pool and then the race at night.

Camp South Hills / Brashear, has its own pool. We'll swim there every day. If possible, we might take some to a game day or else host a game day at Brashear. Some may go to Langley or Sheridan. If possible, we might swim at Citiaparks REAM in Mt. Washington, for a fun outdoor day, but we'll have to get a bus. Or, even Citiparks Moore pool.

Camp Langley gets to swim at Langley's dinky pool as well as at Citiparks Sheridan Pool. We want to also use PPS PCA but have been denied, perhaps for construction?

We have plenty of lifeguards on staff. When we go to the outdoor pools, we do not need to have lifeguards as there are Citiparks guards on duty, of course. Lifeguard certifications will be given to the custodians at each facility in advance of swimming.

Age Considerations[]

We do not know what to expect in terms of the grades the students assigned to Swim & Water Polo. Hence, this plan is subject to changes once we have a good handle on their ages, and how many in each squad.

Shifting Sands[]

Pending issues with huge implications:[]

  • Time with students. Seems as if the students report to block 3 at 1:23 pm.
  • We do not know what pools and what time PPS pool access can occur.
    • Older question: Can Camp Faison's swimmers swim at Pittsburgh Westinghouse on Fridays? No.
    • Do some of the Langley swimmers get to swim at PCA? Yes.
    • Can staff training happen in the mornings, before the afternoon sessions at Pittsburgh's Brashear / South Hills Middle? We think so.
    • Wifi concerns are yet unknown for 2015. In 2014, the necessary sites were not made available on the school networks. Can our devices use the wifi? Can the PPS network have all our sites open?



Navigate to Swim & Water Polo Camp, SDA15 lesson #s: Overview, To Do List

Calendar span: M T W Th F
Week 1, June 29-July 2 1 2 3 4
Week 2, July 6-10 5 6 7 8 9
Week 3, July 13-17 10 11 12 13 14
Week 4, July 20-24 15 16 17 18 19
Week 5, July 27-31 20 21 22 23 24
Week 6, August 3, 4, 5 25 26 27
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