Our clinic program is offered to swimmers looking for a more competitive environment and is open for children as young as 6 years of age. This program offers incredible options for swimmers who are looking for one or more sessions per week, but who are not yet ready or do not want to make the huge commitment of joining a YMCA or Club Swim program. We have beginning competitive swimmers through high school athletes in this program.
During the course of our clinic program swimmers will learn the necessary skills to join a higher level swim team while continuing to build endurance and master advanced techniques for competition. Swimmers will improve starts, streamlines, pullouts and flipturns for all four strokes. They will also learn how to be more efficient in their strokes, breathing techniques, and underwater propulsion in preparation for a competitive racing environment. After successful completion of our clinic program swimmers will be confident and ready to join a competitive swim team and continue their lifelong love of aquatics.
Clinic participants will have the option to practice 1-4 times a week. Clinics are offered at both The Morristown Beard School (MBS) as well as The County College of Morris (CCM). Clinic times are as follows:
- MBS Wednesday 5-6pm and 6-7pm
- MBS Friday 5-6pm and 6-7pm
- MBS Saturday 12-1pm and 1-2pm
- CCM Sunday 12:15-1:15pm and 1:15-2:15pm
By registering for more than one clinic class, you are eligible for our BOGO promotion. Every additional clinic you register for after the first, will be discounted 50%.
Clinic Levels
Our Clinic program is divided into lanes/levels, which all meet during every clinic practice. Our swimmers will begin in a Pre-Clinic, which is an introduction to swimming full lengths of the 25 yard pool. Swimmers will master both long and short axis strokes using a variety of drills and detailed technique work. The curriculum for our pre-clinic is similar to our Level 4 class within our Learn to Swim program. The main difference being that our clinic program meets in a larger class size, competitive length pool and mimics a pre-swim team atmosphere to jumpstart a love and passion for higher level aquatic training.
At times drills will be performed in half laps to ensure swimmers are working on proper form, especially for our swimmers new to this program. After swimmers move to our full clinic program, they will be assessed and moved into lanes for levels A, B, C, D, and E. These levels are fluid and a swimmer is moved up in level as soon as they are deemed ready by their weekly coaches. Clinic A begins at age 6, and our clinic program encompasses all swimmers up to age 18.
FAQ
What days and times are clinics available?
- MBS Wednesday 5-6 and 6-7
- MBS Friday 4-5 and 5-6
- MBS Saturday 11-12 and 12-1
- CCM Sunday 12:15-1:15 and 1:15-2:15
Does my swimmer need an evaluation prior to starting a clinic?
A formal evaluation is not required as we have fluid levels within each clinic to allow swimmer progression. We ask that swimmers looking to join our clinic have a foundation of freestyle and backstroke. If enrolled in our Learn to Swim classes, students must be at least a Level 4 swimmer to join our clinic program.
What happens if a pool is closed for any reason?
From time to time, our competition pools will close for external swim meets. When this happens, you can schedule a makeup day for any practice you have missed. Closure dates will be published the minute we get them from our pools. *Our pools reserve the right to change these dates at any time due to competitive swim meets. In the event that a date is changed, we would let you know as soon as we were informed of the change and provide a makeup.
