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Swim Parent Newsletter – Subscribe Today for Less than $0.50 Per Week!
Every week over 40,000 families receive the Swim Parents Newsletter through their head coach.
It is such an easy and inexpensive method for parent education. For less than $.50 a week, every week we will send you an article you can actually use “as is” to help your parents understand more about our sport and ease your role in parent education. Receive it, Open it, Review it, and with a couple of clicks forward it to your whole team. Easy.
One of our most praised articles, “The Awesome 8 Year Old,” was recently published and I would like to present it as an example of the type of article we send out. You can view it here for free.
If you would more articles like “The Awesome 8 Year Old” you can subscribe by calling us at 800-356-2722 between 8 AM and 5 PM Eastern Time or you can subscribe on line at https://www.swimmingcoach.org/ecom/store/comersus_listItems.asp?idCategory=83
The cost is only $25 per year.
For More Info, Please Contact:
Guy Edson
American Swimming Coaches Association
5101 NW 21st Ave., Suite 200
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
800-356-2722, 8 AM-5PM Eastern Time
Coaches: Sign up for ASCA’s Swim Parent Newsletter Today
Coaches — Add another tool to your arsenal today with an annual subscription to the Swim Parent Newsletter!
The Swim Parent Newsletter is a weekly publication coaches can use as a parent education tool. Each week we publish a topic we think will be valuable to your swim team parents.
Recent titles include:
“Do We Really Want our Children Drinking Energy Drinks?”
“Guidelines For Going On The Road,”
“2 a Day Workouts for 12 and Unders?”
“Resolving Conflicts with the Coach”
“The Praise Craze”
“The Nature of Stroke Work”
“Enough Already With Kid Gloves”
ASCA’s Swim Parent Newsletter is emailed to 44,000 families each week by the coaches who subscribe to this highly relevant parent education resource. What do other coaches have to say about Swim Parent Newsletter?
- “Wow! Good one! Thanks!”
- “This is what I needed to send to one of my parents who pushes his daughter too hard,”
- “The Swim Parent Newsletter is amazing. My team loves it! It’s so great that it can actually be applied to any sport!”
Subscribe at the ASCA online store or call us at 800.356.2722. An annual subscription is only $25. Click here for a advanced copy of the next issue. What are you waiting for? Sign up today!
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick? Or maybe some better advice…”Working Successfully with Swim Parents”
Check out this great webinar by ASCA Technical Director, Guy Edson – “Working Successfully With Swim Parents”
Click HERE for the webinar recording
Click HERE for just the PDF slides
And, some related parent education:
Ten Ways for the Swim Parent to Sabotage Their Child’s Swimming Career (written with tongue firmly in cheek) — From John Leonard, American Swimming Coaches Association
A Few Suggestions on How to Be a Better Swimming Parent — From Michael Brooks, York YMCA Swimming
