First half of a presentation delivered to the Pacific Swim Coaches Clinic in Napa, California, hosted by NorCal Swim Shop. Second half in other file.

1. Mark@Rauterkus.com
NorCal Coaches
Clinic in Napa, 2018
Mark Rauterkus
412-298-3432 = cell
Executive Director,
SKWIM USA,
a nonprofit 501(c)(3)
SKWIMUSA.org
Coaching Swim, SKWIM
and Water Polo in
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
CLOH.org - Swim.CLOH.org. - Play.CLOH.org. - Rauterkus.com

2. Got yours?
Classic, must have
Think again about some content.

6. Dead Games
❖ Board wars, with kick boards
❖ Tug of boar
❖ Swimopoly
❖ Jump, dive, twist / Rock, paper, scissors
❖ Pigeon, a keyword story game
❖ Marco Polo
❖ Stuck in the mid tag, with a swim
through the legs to get unstuck.
❖ Cannon ball contest
❖ A-B-C wall kicking without um or uh.
❖ Steal the bacon
❖ Kick board volley
❖ Underwater hockey, but with golf
putters.* MR says, Play the real game!
❖ Ready, set, go, a bit like Simon Says
❖ 4-corners in dive well, like musical
chairs w coach called number.
❖ Bomb ball to keep water polo ball out of
their lane without stopping the kicking.
❖ King of the hill while sitting in an inter
tube.
❖ First in, last in.
❖ Ice and water, a version of freeze tag,
done in 2 to 4 lanes swimming small
bursts across.
❖ Tic, tac, toe foam board

7. Dead: Games from Bob's book
- Playing games we can feel good about ourselves.

8. Gimmicks live on
❖ Red light / green light (kicking)
❖ Rock, paper, siscor relay where kids meet in middle of pool and
winner advances
❖ Trivia for workout and being correct gets to pick the next set
❖ Wet t-shirt relays
❖ Streamline contest
❖ 5 second rule game where kid names 3 things in a category, to pick a
swim set
❖ Sharks and humans, a catch up race game.
❖ Wheel barrel races

9. Gimmicks from Bob's Chapter 1:

10. Gimmicks continued from Bob's Chapter 1:

12. Bravo!
Fair use

13. Worth repeating, and thinking again with the wee ones.
Cooperation with
Swimming and Water Polo.
http://swim.cloh.org/
2017/12/22/swim-water-
polo-all-together-now/
http://youtu.be/eZbdiuUu0S8

15. 15
Westinghouse
afterschool
Waterpolo,
Wednesdays,
2011-2012,
volunteer
coaching.

16. North Allegheny, suburban
Pittsburgh, Tigers
A few city players visit and join.
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17. Strategies to scale social programs. Multidisciplinary, youth-serving, effective in education
My city, our dreams,
& harsh realities
Foundation types.
United Way.

18. Strategies to scale social programs. Multidisciplinary, youth-serving, effective in education
Trend in Pittsburgh schools, and beyond,
sports are dying.

19. Strategies to scale social programs. Multidisciplinary, youth-serving, effective in education
My city, our dreams,
& harsh realities
Foundation types.
United Way.

21. Everyone swims. Aquatics is a cornerstone.
Subcontractors / partners / nonprofit agencies can handle other activities.
Coaches control, manage, direct, hire, invest, and perhaps, own these engagement operations.

22. More Valuable and Purposeful game play
❖ Values to the
❖ alues to the swim clubs / swim
teams
❖ Values to the larger community

23. Aquatics 365
"More than a cool game."
❖ Lifestyle brand...
❖ Long term interests...
❖ Engagement
❖ ...philosophy...
❖ We can check all the boxes at the pool.
❖ But we can't check all the boxes with only a swim team.

24. Competitors
❖ STEM, often call STEAM
❖ Maker Spaces
❖ Art
❖ Acting, voice
❖ Robotics
❖ Coding
❖ Music, band, orchestra
❖ One Act Plays, High School
Musicals, Talent Shows
❖ Languages
❖ Hosting Foreign Exchange
Students
❖ Debate
❖ Youth In Government, Model
UN, Mock Trial
❖ Internships, Cancer Camp
❖ Jobs
❖ Travel
❖ Other sports, of course

25. Mission critical
Digital Badges:

26. Plenty of
additional
Digital Badges,
some with Levels

28. Action. Game play. Focus. Desired.
Use different colored swim caps for teams. Floating goal. Non-swimmers at outset of camp.

29. YMCA site, top staff source
Varsity swim team
members have been
the best source for
top employees.
Trending to 8th
grade helpers.
Captains, Jr.
Guards,
instructors,
assistants.
Record holder in
diving.

30. University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning
Promise: Our delivered
ideas are yours to
consider, take home and
deploy in your programs.
We are going to stay in
touch and build a
relationship.
Additional waves of
insights and extra
resources for planning
and are available as you --
and your people -- need
assistance.

31. The size of the problem
we confront becomes
the size of the reward
received.
Let's level up our
ambitions
Focus talents, creative capacity, and best
practices to solve big problems, bigger
challenges on bigger impact issues.
My mission: Spreading aquatic games
and growing swimming.

32. Growing to
become
Lifeguards
IUP grad,
DII
volleyball
for 4
years,
swam in
9th and
12th
grades.
Speak of
Guarding
job 20x
week.

33. Extend the aquatic life for your athletes after retirement from competitive swimming
Empower your swimmers
for College Water Polo
Club Teams
Host 10 practices per year for
5 years for a solid base for
walking on as an undergrad
or grad student.

34. Tremendous help
for growing the
sport can be
harnessed with the
masters team.
Youth can travel
and practice with
masters.
Masters Water Polo Pittsburgh Renegades

35. College and masters players love to mix it up.

36. Hybrid
play works
❖ Flexible
❖ Any Turnout
❖ Fit pool spaces
❖ Feel challenged
❖ Don't overwhelm

37. Blending everything.
We get out the balls by week
two for one hand passing.
Catch like Odell Beckham Jr.
Drills and game modifications,
documented in wiki as lesson
plans, killed off all Sharks &
Minnows.
Final day of Summer
Dreamers includes swim races,
endurance swims, running
race, and games of SKWIM
and water polo.

38. SKWIM in shallow, water polo is deeper.
Open swim at public pool in Hill District on Tuesday evenings has organized water polo, but
our habit dictates the tossing of three SKWIM disks into the shallow water for younger kids.
Lifeguard training ended with a SKWIM game. A dozen disks were shared to various Lifeguard
staffs around the city if they requested the disks.

39. Bottom friendly water polo.

40. Water polo squad from Greenwich, CT,
in Philly with a Pittsburgh player. (Sharing is rare in swimming.)
Mixing high performing players from various clubs is a frequent occurrence in water polo.
Coordination, planning, commitment, relationships trust and finances are necessary factors.

41. Hope: All Joining the Olympic Movement

42. Low equipment needs. Gifted too. Balls, caps, goals. SKWIM began
with only the disks because the water polo play is far more invasive.
Capping up.

43. Day camp with 100+ kids hosted by The Pittsburgh Project, a faith-based organization.
High Capacity Efforts
Operates an outdoor L-shaped pool,
5-lane, 25m by 33m.
Up to 35 kids at once.
Most were passing deep water swim
tests at overnight camp at a lake.

44. Fun and variety
Class size and squad size
matters. Most play
happens with all players
engaged, no bench.
Ejections, penalty box,
time outs, and behavior
with coach, referee,
whistle, transitions, and
eventual subs are part of
sports, teamwork,
sportsmanship and
patience.

45. Show off swim, Nahio.

46. Swim & SKWIM

47. Fin use rocks. The PDF fin allows egg-beater and breastroke kicking. Obtained 10 pairs every size.

48. PDF fins float.
Either full foot, or with straps (purple).
Deploy fins as an equalizer in water polo
with rookies and weaker players.
Fins go with each kid to public pools.
Use fins in open water swims.
Goal: Send fins with kids on their family's
summer vacations, especially to the beach.
Essential Equipment
Fins, (see samples)
3 disks,
Head bands / caps
Goals or markers,
Boarder (optional),
Whistle.

51. Three lane pool with middle school swim practice. Desire Middle School post-season tournament
among squads at Saturday Swim School. invite to continue through summer.
Vertical &
Horizontal
Fins make walking on the
bottom difficult.

53. Learn-to-swim and swimming lessons are so ...
Trending: Swim Schools
threaten club swim teams?
Negative impacts in Australia

54. Guy Edson's plan for age group game time
❖ Each unit = 15 minutes.
❖ Team's week = 30 units
❖ 6 phases/cycles for
season
SD= stroke development
AD= aerobic development
RD= race development
LQS= long quality swim
IM= IM
Champ= championship season
❖ (see next slide)

55. Age Group master plan, page 2, from Guy Edson
Games get 15-minutes per week in every cycle
AB= aerobic base
K= kick
R= racing (learning how,
strategies, racing their
teammates, etc)
AO= aerobic overload
(FR or IM only) these
should be challenging,
limited rest, kids too
tired to talk on wall
LQS= Long quality
swims
SW= stroke work,
learning the strokes
STW= start and turn
work, learning them
S= sprinting
G= games (sanctioned
goof)

56. Master Plan: PPS Summer Dreamers Swim & Water Polo
❖ Each unit = 15 minutes
❖ Team's week = 40 units
❖ 2 hours per day (1:30-3:30pm)
❖ 5 days per week
Admin Huddles 5
Dryland exercises 6
Literacy 8
Stroke 6
Race 1
Wet fitness 4
Games 10

57. Academic efforts:
Creating Literate Olympians Here
Literacy
Murals / Art
A for Athlete A-B-Cs
Wiki pages at CLOH.wikia.com
Technology with 7-inch Android
tablets
School supplied computer labs
Online Course: Get Your Feet Wet
SKWIM water safety Quizzes, online
Exercise Documentation /
Illustration
Daily lesson plans with video clips
Digital badges
Thank You Notes
Reflective writing for CLOH.org
Guest interviews from athletes and
travelers
Milestone Pods

58. Swimming is planned.
SKWIM's game-day
planning ends by just
showing up.
Swim meets are super
organized competitions.

59. Prefer fins,
but not necessary
Race to the disk! Fast twitch and micro bursts

60. PPS Summer Dreamers
Detailed Lesson Plans: Swim &
Water Polo
Insert motor development rant.
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61. Discuss, coordination

62. Discuss: Keeping score