From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Tue Dec 7 22:16:48 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 22:16:48 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] The ISCA Coaches Summit is coming -- just before the International Senior Cup Message-ID: Hi All, The plans are starting to get back in gear. https://swimisca.org/isca-hall-of-fame-coaches-summit/ Of interest, the prices. The banquet is now at $50, with an online ticket purchase. Bring a team of coaches, with up to 10, cost is $400. All get banquet tickets too! Single coach, $150. Going to the spring meet, save $50 with a coupon. Bring a second coach, save $25. All of the Hall of Fame Coaches said they'd be there. Meeting those folks is going to be a career highlight. Three of the six are on the list of the top 100 college coaches of all time. https://swimisca.org/isca-hall-of-fame-coaches-summit/ + + + In the Global Library for ISCA Members, we updated the Dick Hannula hub page. Login first. Then hit this page: https://read.swimisca.org/dick-hannula/ -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org 412 298 3432 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Thu Dec 9 08:15:00 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 08:15:00 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Here we go again. The swimming program I'm coaching just got beached to Jan 10, 2022 Message-ID: Hi All, This is a bad news and good news email. Bad news, due to Covid, my school swim team is being taken out of the water until Jan 10, 2022. The good news, I'm jumping back into remote, online coaching and can spend the next few weeks with renewed purpose to sharpen the online resources. I just sent this to another ISCA member who has been diving into the online course, Get Your Feet Wet -- Swimming. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/get-your-feet-wet-swimming/ I assume he was checking it out to see if it was a good fit for his students at his school. My school team where I coach just got told we are NOT going to be in-person for anything until Jan 10. School-wide decision. Ugh. Here we go again. Last year we didn't do any swimming at this school. Others did. But, I'm most excited to work with you and get the bugs crushed with some online education in swimming and sports for students / schools. So, I'd love to have your input. I love your questions. Thanks for being here. Keep reading below to see what I just sent to the AD, PE teachers and head basketball coach at my school.... -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com 412 298 3432 = cell = = = = Subject: Now what -- our kids need a challenge with virtual PE and SPORTS -- and I've got it Hi, I would love to huddle with you all today on a Zoom call so we can ponder what to do with the high school (and middle school swimmers) for the next few weeks -- to Jan 10. I 'd love to get your support so we can use this time to stretch our students' minds in terms of wellness, health, technology, building teamwork and friendship -- helping them keep their heads in the game in a dynamic online project that has purpose. My alter life is as webmaster with the International Swim Coaches Association. I've published more than 100 books back in the day and we have TONS of opportunities to engage with the kids on short-term projects. Sure, some of it is about "swimming' but not all of it. But, we also can share swimming from a position of water safety, becoming a lifeguard, CPR, and world traveler that is going to find times at a beach, on a boat, etc. Here is just ONE flavor of challenge to put out to the kids. https://S6.CLOH.org. There are more than 200 posts, mostly stories, of WATER. https://s6.cloh.org/story-collection/ The nice thing about these stories is that they are mostly with good endings. They are happy. They are educational. They teach geography, vocabulary, offer new experiences. People don't die in them. But, the risks are often plain to see. We could have the students (swimmers, basketball players, PE students) explore the stories. Read & listen. Find mistakes (edit), Enhance (write) with more details such as -- Geography (maps) -- Vocabulary (new words) -- other links (research) and, MAKE Quiz QUESTIONS from those stories. Then, take the quizzes others write. (Tech management, LMS understanding) And do meta / librarian like assessments for the stories such as -- index key-words, -- rank by grade levels, -- sort by level of interest. Lastly, the students can CREATE their OWN STORIES. Video / audio input. Illustrate, produce. publish. + + + But, I've got dozens of other areas for sharing with the students in a remote way. Many ebooks even. Amanda got my recent ebook downloaded, Readings from the Book of Coach Mark, https://TinyURL.com/Book-of-Coach-Mark/ As a group we could make a FAQ (frequently asked questions) and ANSWERS area for being a healthy teenager. We can build upon that book. Organize it. Much is swim specific, but some other parts are for track, volleyball, X-Country, etc. We can expand into other topic areas. We could make it about being a healthy person in Pittsburgh, etc. + + Let's hold a Zoom and ponder these opportunities and make this time productive for them, and for my projects -- and in turn -- the world. What time can we meet? Mark From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Fri Dec 17 10:45:39 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:45:39 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Good time to do goal setting / New Year's pondering Message-ID: Hi, Just uploaded an ebook to the Global Library for ISCA members that offers a simple goal setting framework that kids, especially age group swimmers, could chew upon. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/goals-team-meeting-support-notes/topic/planning-for-a-successful-new-year-ebook/ There are some fine goal-setting notes in the Psych section of the Library. More on the goal setting topic to come. -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3), SKWIM.us The Pittsburgh Project - swim coach and head lifeguard Coach at The Ellis School for Swimming, T&F and Triathlon Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team & Renegades (Masters) CLOH.org & Rauterkus.com & 4Rs.org 412 298 3432 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Mon Dec 20 16:48:21 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:48:21 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Would you ever call a swimmer a "turkey" or "punker?" - Coaching on the other end of positive Message-ID: Hi, What's the worst you've been called, as an athlete. What about hearing others be called names? What about today's norms? Humm.... The Motivation section in the Global Library for ISCA Members at Read.SwimISCA.org has been enriched with a few additions and changes. Login and then hit: https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/sports-psychology-for-swimming-coaches/ (Goldsmith) Then topics: Your Greatest Power: The Power to Choose (Hannula) GRIT before GLORY ? Emotion in Sports (Heil) Motivation (Hannula) Hashtag: Turkeys and Plunkers worked in a fun / serious way with team culture back in the day That last one is causing the most head-scratching. You need to be careful if you call anyone anything these days. So, what do we put into the library as a lesson? Check it out and see if it passes your sniff tests. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/sports-psychology-for-swimming-coaches/topic/hashtag-turkeys-and-plunkers-worked-in-a-fun-serious-way-with-team-culture-back-in-the-day/ Thanks. -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3), SKWIM.us The Pittsburgh Project - swim coach and head lifeguard Coach at The Ellis School for Swimming, T&F and Triathlon Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team & Renegades (Masters) CLOH.org & Rauterkus.com & 4Rs.org 412 298 3432 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Fri Dec 24 14:55:33 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:55:33 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Just in time for winter training. Training sets from the past and toughness lesson Message-ID: Hi, New info in the Global Library for ISCA Members includes some training sets from back in the day. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/high-intensity-swimming-more-positive-research-have-you-tried-it-yet/topic/training-sets/ These folks were TOUGH. And, speaking of tough, in the psych section, we've got a new article to share about what it means to be tough in swimming. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/coaching-champions/topic/tough-is/ It includes a quiz, 10-questions. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/coaching-champions/topic/tough-is/quizzes/tough-is/ The same quiz is also out on the blog, so those that are not members can plunk on this link and take the quiz and think about toughness. - https://blog.swimisca.org/quizzes/quiz-on-toughness/ So far, the execution and the update on the quizzes has been weak, at best. Hopefully, that gets adjusted in the weeks and months ahead with some improved interactivity, especially surveys. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I'm hunkered down at the home office, plugging away without only local travels. Stay safe! -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org 218-400-1500 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Mon Dec 27 08:00:00 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:00:00 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Building -- chicken and egg Message-ID: Always ask your team about motivation and for motivation. Motivated swimmers motivate the coach. - Which came first: The chicken or the egg? The motivation that inspires the athletes don't generally come from the coach. Motivation is the result of their effort, their enthusiasm for the task, their great efforts in competition. In turn, that makes the coach motivated. Swim coaches are always motivated by fast swimming in practice and competition. Coaches can ask the swimmers to motivate the coach, so that you (as a coach) could be inspired to better motivate them. Once upon a time, a college swimmer finished a race and, while talking to the coach, the swimmer asked, "What would help me in my next race?" The coach's answer was delivered with little enthusiasm. The coach said, "Swim faster." Years later, when the swimmer was then a coach, the meaning of those words rang true. Swimmers and coaches need to realize that the level of coaching elevates with faster swimming. >From the Global Library for ISCA Members: https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/building-and-growing-a-client-focused-swim-program-by-wayne-goldsmith/topic/team-building/ -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Tue Dec 7 22:16:48 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 22:16:48 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] The ISCA Coaches Summit is coming -- just before the International Senior Cup Message-ID: Hi All, The plans are starting to get back in gear. https://swimisca.org/isca-hall-of-fame-coaches-summit/ Of interest, the prices. The banquet is now at $50, with an online ticket purchase. Bring a team of coaches, with up to 10, cost is $400. All get banquet tickets too! Single coach, $150. Going to the spring meet, save $50 with a coupon. Bring a second coach, save $25. All of the Hall of Fame Coaches said they'd be there. Meeting those folks is going to be a career highlight. Three of the six are on the list of the top 100 college coaches of all time. https://swimisca.org/isca-hall-of-fame-coaches-summit/ + + + In the Global Library for ISCA Members, we updated the Dick Hannula hub page. Login first. Then hit this page: https://read.swimisca.org/dick-hannula/ -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org 412 298 3432 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Thu Dec 9 08:15:00 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 08:15:00 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Here we go again. The swimming program I'm coaching just got beached to Jan 10, 2022 Message-ID: Hi All, This is a bad news and good news email. Bad news, due to Covid, my school swim team is being taken out of the water until Jan 10, 2022. The good news, I'm jumping back into remote, online coaching and can spend the next few weeks with renewed purpose to sharpen the online resources. I just sent this to another ISCA member who has been diving into the online course, Get Your Feet Wet -- Swimming. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/get-your-feet-wet-swimming/ I assume he was checking it out to see if it was a good fit for his students at his school. My school team where I coach just got told we are NOT going to be in-person for anything until Jan 10. School-wide decision. Ugh. Here we go again. Last year we didn't do any swimming at this school. Others did. But, I'm most excited to work with you and get the bugs crushed with some online education in swimming and sports for students / schools. So, I'd love to have your input. I love your questions. Thanks for being here. Keep reading below to see what I just sent to the AD, PE teachers and head basketball coach at my school.... -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com 412 298 3432 = cell = = = = Subject: Now what -- our kids need a challenge with virtual PE and SPORTS -- and I've got it Hi, I would love to huddle with you all today on a Zoom call so we can ponder what to do with the high school (and middle school swimmers) for the next few weeks -- to Jan 10. I 'd love to get your support so we can use this time to stretch our students' minds in terms of wellness, health, technology, building teamwork and friendship -- helping them keep their heads in the game in a dynamic online project that has purpose. My alter life is as webmaster with the International Swim Coaches Association. I've published more than 100 books back in the day and we have TONS of opportunities to engage with the kids on short-term projects. Sure, some of it is about "swimming' but not all of it. But, we also can share swimming from a position of water safety, becoming a lifeguard, CPR, and world traveler that is going to find times at a beach, on a boat, etc. Here is just ONE flavor of challenge to put out to the kids. https://S6.CLOH.org. There are more than 200 posts, mostly stories, of WATER. https://s6.cloh.org/story-collection/ The nice thing about these stories is that they are mostly with good endings. They are happy. They are educational. They teach geography, vocabulary, offer new experiences. People don't die in them. But, the risks are often plain to see. We could have the students (swimmers, basketball players, PE students) explore the stories. Read & listen. Find mistakes (edit), Enhance (write) with more details such as -- Geography (maps) -- Vocabulary (new words) -- other links (research) and, MAKE Quiz QUESTIONS from those stories. Then, take the quizzes others write. (Tech management, LMS understanding) And do meta / librarian like assessments for the stories such as -- index key-words, -- rank by grade levels, -- sort by level of interest. Lastly, the students can CREATE their OWN STORIES. Video / audio input. Illustrate, produce. publish. + + + But, I've got dozens of other areas for sharing with the students in a remote way. Many ebooks even. Amanda got my recent ebook downloaded, Readings from the Book of Coach Mark, https://TinyURL.com/Book-of-Coach-Mark/ As a group we could make a FAQ (frequently asked questions) and ANSWERS area for being a healthy teenager. We can build upon that book. Organize it. Much is swim specific, but some other parts are for track, volleyball, X-Country, etc. We can expand into other topic areas. We could make it about being a healthy person in Pittsburgh, etc. + + Let's hold a Zoom and ponder these opportunities and make this time productive for them, and for my projects -- and in turn -- the world. What time can we meet? Mark From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Fri Dec 17 10:45:39 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:45:39 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Good time to do goal setting / New Year's pondering Message-ID: Hi, Just uploaded an ebook to the Global Library for ISCA members that offers a simple goal setting framework that kids, especially age group swimmers, could chew upon. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/goals-team-meeting-support-notes/topic/planning-for-a-successful-new-year-ebook/ There are some fine goal-setting notes in the Psych section of the Library. More on the goal setting topic to come. -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3), SKWIM.us The Pittsburgh Project - swim coach and head lifeguard Coach at The Ellis School for Swimming, T&F and Triathlon Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team & Renegades (Masters) CLOH.org & Rauterkus.com & 4Rs.org 412 298 3432 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Mon Dec 20 16:48:21 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:48:21 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Would you ever call a swimmer a "turkey" or "punker?" - Coaching on the other end of positive Message-ID: Hi, What's the worst you've been called, as an athlete. What about hearing others be called names? What about today's norms? Humm.... The Motivation section in the Global Library for ISCA Members at Read.SwimISCA.org has been enriched with a few additions and changes. Login and then hit: https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/sports-psychology-for-swimming-coaches/ (Goldsmith) Then topics: Your Greatest Power: The Power to Choose (Hannula) GRIT before GLORY ? Emotion in Sports (Heil) Motivation (Hannula) Hashtag: Turkeys and Plunkers worked in a fun / serious way with team culture back in the day That last one is causing the most head-scratching. You need to be careful if you call anyone anything these days. So, what do we put into the library as a lesson? Check it out and see if it passes your sniff tests. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/sports-psychology-for-swimming-coaches/topic/hashtag-turkeys-and-plunkers-worked-in-a-fun-serious-way-with-team-culture-back-in-the-day/ Thanks. -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3), SKWIM.us The Pittsburgh Project - swim coach and head lifeguard Coach at The Ellis School for Swimming, T&F and Triathlon Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team & Renegades (Masters) CLOH.org & Rauterkus.com & 4Rs.org 412 298 3432 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Fri Dec 24 14:55:33 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:55:33 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Just in time for winter training. Training sets from the past and toughness lesson Message-ID: Hi, New info in the Global Library for ISCA Members includes some training sets from back in the day. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/high-intensity-swimming-more-positive-research-have-you-tried-it-yet/topic/training-sets/ These folks were TOUGH. And, speaking of tough, in the psych section, we've got a new article to share about what it means to be tough in swimming. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/coaching-champions/topic/tough-is/ It includes a quiz, 10-questions. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/coaching-champions/topic/tough-is/quizzes/tough-is/ The same quiz is also out on the blog, so those that are not members can plunk on this link and take the quiz and think about toughness. - https://blog.swimisca.org/quizzes/quiz-on-toughness/ So far, the execution and the update on the quizzes has been weak, at best. Hopefully, that gets adjusted in the weeks and months ahead with some improved interactivity, especially surveys. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I'm hunkered down at the home office, plugging away without only local travels. Stay safe! -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org 218-400-1500 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Mon Dec 27 08:00:00 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:00:00 -0500 Subject: [CLOH-News] Building -- chicken and egg Message-ID: Always ask your team about motivation and for motivation. Motivated swimmers motivate the coach. - Which came first: The chicken or the egg? The motivation that inspires the athletes don't generally come from the coach. Motivation is the result of their effort, their enthusiasm for the task, their great efforts in competition. In turn, that makes the coach motivated. Swim coaches are always motivated by fast swimming in practice and competition. Coaches can ask the swimmers to motivate the coach, so that you (as a coach) could be inspired to better motivate them. Once upon a time, a college swimmer finished a race and, while talking to the coach, the swimmer asked, "What would help me in my next race?" The coach's answer was delivered with little enthusiasm. The coach said, "Swim faster." Years later, when the swimmer was then a coach, the meaning of those words rang true. Swimmers and coaches need to realize that the level of coaching elevates with faster swimming. >From the Global Library for ISCA Members: https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/building-and-growing-a-client-focused-swim-program-by-wayne-goldsmith/topic/team-building/ -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org