Competitive Swimming Parents Page

The LY Swim Team Parents Resource Page

LY Swimming Philosophy	General
Meet Expectations and Perspectives etc	An Article on Advanced Placement Courses
Practice Visitation	Glossary- Swim Terms
The 10 Commandments of Parenting	First Meet Expectations
Ideal Swim Parenting, an article	The Purpose of Swimming Meets
Link Page for Canadian Hockey on Parent Education	Tips For Meets
Ideal Practice Attendance	Group Progressions
Swimmer Responsibility; or who does the work	Stepping Stones
Coach Fitz's Management Style	Fuel Your Engine, Meet Nutrition
Are you a Pressure Parent?	USA Swimming go to their Nutrition Page
Butterfly, A True Story	Myths and Misconceptions About Year Round Swimming
LY Swimming, Diving In	Resume Building for the College Bound Athlete
Keeping up with the Yardage	John Leonard of ASCA letter to parents on Sabotaging their swimmer
Stepping Stones	Time Standards article
Whose Killing Kids Sports	Swimmers Resource Page
Teaching Responsibility	Fee and Membership Page
Parental Help Building Self Image	Supplements- Warnings for Parents
Equipment Needs	Cautionary comments on supplements-USAS
Volunteers, Your Swimmer Needs You	Eating on the Road
	Hydration- Often and Early
	Distance Vocab!
	Academic thoughts
	Real Costs at LY

Why LY Swimming and why year round swimming and why attendance counts: an article from USA Swimming

Parents page at USA Swimming has lots of Great information to help you understand your swimmers sport. Link here.

A chart to help organize your college choices and awareness from Ira Klein, USAS.

On my recent trip I was asked about college opportunities. Here is a chart for you to use to help your families with choices.

ORGANIZATIONS	Athletic Scholarships	Maximum Men's	Maximum Women's	Web site	Programs	Men	Women	Total
NCAA I	yes	9.9	14	http://www2.ncaa.org/		140	189	329
NCAA II	yes	8.1	8.1	http://www2.ncaa.org/		50	67	117
NCAA III	no	0	0	http://www2.ncaa.org/		191	236	427
NAIA I	yes	8	8	http://www.naia.org/index.html		20	22	42
NJCAA	yes	15 only 3 foreign	15 only 3 foreign	http://www.njcaa.org/about.cfm		20	21	41
COA (CALI CC)	no	0	0	http://www.coasports.org/aboutus.html		107	107	214
						528	642	1170

College Swimming Articles

Collegeswimming.com recently initiated a series of articles for prospective college swimmers and their parents. We have linked to the articles as follows: