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Linslade Crusaders gain Swim 21 Award for Swimming Teaching

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At a  ceremony at the Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre, the Mayor of Leighton Buzzard presented Linslade Crusaders with theprestigious Swim 21 award for swimming teaching. Crusaders are the first club in the Eastern region to earn the award for swimming teaching.

Swim 21 is the Amateur Swimming Association’s club development model – a planning tool that enables clubs to help swimmers, coaches and administrators achieve their full potential.  Aimed at bringing swimming into the 21^st Century, it is centred on the needs of the swimmers – striving to provide them with the best possible environment. It is regarded as the back bone of the ASA’s development programme and the more a club puts into the process, the more it will get out of it.

Swim 21 defines a Teaching club as “a club which has excellent staff and facilities needed to begin the important task of teaching youngsters to swim” and to qualify the award Crusaders had to submit extensive documentation showing the club’s teaching ability. As the club has no full-time staff, all the submissions had to be prepared by volunteers, normally the parents of swimmers, over the last year.

However, the hard work does not stop there. Swim 21 is a continuous process and subject to continuous assessment. Crusaders are already putting in place initiatives to further improve the standard of swimming teaching and are also preparing to extend their status to include recognition for developing swimmers to compete at County and District level.

If you want to know more or are interested in swimming please contact the club coach, Malcolm Sedgwick on 01525 370595.