Camps and Clinics

The Niagara Swimming LSC is proud to offer robust and exciting camp & clinic experiences that foster the love of swimming from the grassroots to National level athletes. 

The objectives of Niagara Camps and Clinics are to:

  • Motivate and educate those swimmers participating in the camp.
  • Provide an educational experience for each participating swimmer.
  • Create unity throughout the LSC.
  • Increase athlete retention by providing them motivation to continue in the sport
  • Provide an opportunity for education, observation, communication, and motivation of coaches.
     


2024 Niagara Long Course Distance Select Camp
Saturday, December 28th, 2024
Burt Flickinger Athletic Center, Buffalo, NY

The selection criteria for this long course & distance based camp was based on the top single-age gender (13, 14, 15-18) USA Swimming IMX scores from the 2023-2024 SCY season. Additionally, top distance SCY freestyle athletes were taken into consideration in the selection process.

Our camp had three segments to it, all revolving around long course & distance training and competition:

  • Lectures ft. Guest Speakers
    • ​Dave Ferris, Head Coach - Long Island Aquatic Club (LIAC)
      #6 USA Swimming Gold Medal Podium Club for 2023-24 Season
    • Chuck Batchelor, Head Coach - SwimMAC Carolina
      #1 USA Swimming Gold Medal Podium Club for 2023-24 Season
  • ​In-water Training
    • ​Phil Baretela, Head Coach - Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
    • Warm-up, technique work, distance related sets.
  • 800 M Freestyle Time Trial (Sanctioned by USA Swimming)

We had 57 athletes representing their clubs from all regions of the LSC (Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Southern Tier).

Below is a message we received from the family of one of our participants:

"Thank you for this opportunity for our daughter. She loved every minute of it and will truly take what was learned into her swims each day. Commitment is important to our family. We are working hard to carry that over to our daughter. Your camp validated to our daughter that commitment is a secret ingredient to add into the swim recipe that will show growth in the end. Thank you for all that you did on this day!"

USA Swimming, Speedo, and the Deep End proudly sponsored this event. Speedo provided stopwatches to the camp staff and coaches, the Deep End provided practice suits to all camp participants, and USA Swimming provided t-shirts and notepads.
 


2024 Niagara IMR Select Camp
Sunday, December 15th, 2024
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

The selection criteria for this camp was based on USA Swimming IMR scores from the 2023-2024 SCY season. The primary focus of this camp was retention of the selected athletes in the sport. 

Our camp was done in a "stations" based format:

  • Power Tower Speed Work
  • Starts and Turns
  • Relay Exchange Reaction Times
  • Vertical Kicking
  • SwimVenture Quest
  • Athlete Vision Board Creation

Special thanks to Phil Baretela, RIT Head Men's and Women's Swimming Coach and Head Coach of the Select Camp, for helping secure the facility, which was perfect for our needs. Also, thank you to our staff and senior swimmers for sharing their time and expertise as volunteers.

We had 50 athletes representing their clubs from all regions of the LSC (Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Southern Tier).

USA Swimming, Speedo, and the Deep End proudly sponsored this event.