Developing Swimmers: A Comprehensive Programme for Identifying, Training, and Coaching Excellence - Softcover

Brooks, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0736089357 ISBN 13: 9780736089357

Verlag: Human Kinetics, 2011

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Developing Swimmers is the only book offering a comprehensive plan for recognizing and nurturing swimming talent for swimmers aged 14 and younger, the largest participation group in swimming. Michael Brooks – former coach alongside swimming legends Bob Bowman and Murray Stephens in the aquatic club system that developed Michael Phelps and numerous other Olympians – shares more than 20 years of experience and proven results for developing entry-level novices into elite athletes. Original.

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Michael Brooks is the veteran of more than 20 years of year-round club, high school, summer league, and country club swim coaching. He has worked with all levels, from novice to Olympic Trial athletes. He coaches swimmers ages 8 to 18 so that he can keep the beginning, middle, and end of swimmer development in mind at all times.

Since October 2006 Brooks has been head coach of the York YMCA swimming team in York, Pennsylvania. Before that, he spent two years as the head age-group coach of the Brophy East swimming team in Phoenix, Arizona, and five years as head coach of the York site of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club (Michael Phelps' home club), where he worked with renowned coaches Murray Stephens and Bob Bowman.

Brooks was named both the state Age-Group Coach of the Year and the High School Coach of the Year two times, as well as Coach of the Meet at the YMCA National Championships. His swimmers have raced to well over 150 national top 16 and top 10 rankings, scores of Far Western and zone championships, and hundreds of state championships in all events on the program. Brooks resides in York, Pennsylvania.

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• Verlag: Human Kinetics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0736089357
• ISBN 13: 9780736089357
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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