City of Cardiff Swimming Club Strategy for Success Enabling every swimmer to reach their full potential!
Introduction CCSC is the largest and most successful competitive swim club in Wales Formed in 1974, amalgamation of 6 swim clubs in Cardiff. Dave Haller, MBE appointed as first full time professional swimming coach in UK. Based at NSCW & Wales Empire Pool, demolished in 1998 19 Olympians 16 swimmers 2 coaches 1 Physiotherapist Moved to Cardiff International Pool in 2008 Celebrates 40 th anniversary in Spring 2014
1964 Tokyo Dave Haller, 100 Free 1968 Mexico City: The Olympic Legacy Martin Woodroffe, Silver 200 Fly 1976: Montreal: Margi Kelly: Silver 4 x 100 Medley Relay David Leigh, 100 Breaststroke Richard Iredale, 100 Fly Gordon Hewitt, 200 Free James Carter, 200 Backstroke Sue Barnard, 200 Freestyle Mandy James, 100 Backstroke Jane Alexander, 100 Butterfly Anne Adams, 400 IM
1980, Moscow The Olympic Legacy Mark Taylor, 100 Free Leigh Atkinson, 100 Breaststroke 1984, Los Angeles Roland Lee, 4 x 100 Freestyle 1988, Seoul Roland Lee, 100 Freestyle 1992, Barcelona Mark Foster, 50 Free Roland Lee, 4x 100 Freestyle 2000, Sydney Mark Foster, 50 Freestyle
2004, Athens The Olympic Legacy David Davies: Bronze 1500 Free 2008, Beijing David Davies: Sliver, 10K Open Water Tom Haffield, 400 IM 2012, London David Davies, 1500 Ieuan Lloyd, 200 Freestyle
The Need for Change Ensure we continue to provide the very best facilities and service to all our members. Ensure we provide a structured development programme that allows all our swimmers to meet their full potential. Work closer with our partners: Swim Wales and Cardiff City Council/Parkwood Leisure. Maintain our position as Premier Swimming Club in Wales. Maintain our status as an Elite Performance Centre. Ensure we maintain and continue our International, Commonwealth Games and Olympic Legacy. Regain our position in the Arena League National Finals
Structure Objectives Provide an environment and opportunity for every member to reach their full potential. Meet the changing needs of our ever changing environment: Education Social Family Provide a clear and simple membership criteria for each squad. Provide a motivational, transparent and fair progression path to ensure each swimmer understands what they need to do and achieve to progress through the structure.
The Criteria for Each Squad The criteria to gain entry and maintain membership of each squad will include: Regular assessment Age Ranges Required attendance levels (Registers will be kept and monitored) Clearly defined skill levels Qualifying times Minimum competition commitment (To be set by coaches at beginning of each year) Extracurricular activities (where appropriate) Land training Log books In exceptional circumstances movement between squads will be at the discretion of the professional coaching team.
Academy Structure High Performance 3 Performance 3 Academy 1 Academy 2 Academy 3 Academy 4 Cardiff Dragons
Performance Structure ELITE Masters High Performance 1 Performance 1 High Performance 2 Performance 2 High Performance 3 Performance 3 Academy 1
Academy Time Table ACADEMY SQUAD A1 A2 A3 A4 Dragons HOURS 5h 4h 3h 2.5h 1h MONDAY MONDAY 19.00-20.00 18.00-19.00 19.00-20.00 17.00-18.30 AR AR JJ/AG TUESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY 18.45-20.15 19.00-20.00 18.00-19.00 THURSDAY SPLOTT WLC ELC DF AR THURSDAY 19.15-20.15 19.15-20.15 17.15-18.15 18.15-19.15 FRIDAY FLC MAINDY FLC FLC AR JJ/AG FRIDAY 18.30-20.00 19.30-20.30 SATURDAY SPLOTT FLC AR 07.45-08.45 UWIC AR / DH Lead Coach AR JJ / AG
Performance Time Table HIGH PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE SQUAD E HP1 HP2 HP3 P1 P2 P3 HOURS 20h 15h 30m 11h 30m 9h 12h 9h 5h 30m 7.00-9.00 06.00-07.30 06.00-7.30 MONDAY TUESDAY (LC) DH (LC) KB 18.00-19.00 19.00-20.00 (LC) KB 18.30-20.00 18.00-19.00 16.00-18.00 16.30-18.00 16.30-18.00 DH KB DF DF/CM DF DC CM 06.00-07.30 06.00-07.30 (LC) DF (LC) DC TUESDAY 16.00-18.00 16.30-18.30 18.00-20.00 16.30-18.00 18.30-20.00 18.00-20.00 19.00-20.30 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY ELC ELC WLC DH KB DF DC KB DC 7.00-9.00 06.00-07.30 06.00-07.30 (LC) DH (LC) KB 18.00-20.00 (LC) KB 18.00-20.00 18.00-19.00 16.00-18.00 16.30-18.00 WLC DH KB DC DC / NH 06.00-07.30 06.00-07.30 THURSDAY 16.00-18.00 16.30-18.30 (LC) DF FRIDAY SATURDAY (LC) DC 18.30-20.00 18.00-20.00 DH KB DF KB 7.00-9.00 06.00-07.30 06.00-07.30 (LC) DH (LC) KB 18.00-20.00 18.00-20.00 (LC) KB 19.00-20.00 16.30-18.30 16.00-18.00 16.30-18.30 COGAN 18.30-20.00 WLC SPLOTT DH KB DF DC KB CM / NH 8.00-10.00 8.00-10.00 06.30-08.00 07.45-08.45 06.30-08.00 06.45-07.45 Morning session (LC) (LC) (LC) WLC (LC) WLC To be confirm ed DH KB DF DC KB DC Lead Coach DH KB DF DC KB DC / NH
Implementation Programme New Structure will start from Monday 30 th September 2013. New time table published today (16 th September). Individual letters are available this evening with new squad details for each swimmer. (all existing members will need to achieve the required criteria for that squad within an initial period of 12 months). Squad membership criteria will be issued before the end of September 2013. Revised fees will be announced in October and introduced from 1 st November 2013. A series of question & answer sessions will be held for parents during the first 2 weeks of October. A review of the new structure carried out in November with any amendments being implemented in January.