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USA Swimming
Club Recognition Program
The Club Recognition Program offers USA Swimming club members a working blueprint for developing strong, stable, financially sound and athletically productive organizations.
Designed over a two-year period by USA Swimming's Club Development Committee, this voluntary program presents four levels of achievement across four component areas deemed critical to long-term club success. The program encourages clubs to establish organizational goals and to benchmark their progress toward those goals. The ultimate objective of the program is to strengthen the club system in USA Swimming by guiding clubs through a development process that ultimately positions the program and its coaches to better serve athletes.
The Club Development Committee looked at many different factors that helped create "great" clubs. The committee grouped all of the factors into four major component areas:
These component areas, along with the markers in each area, were further subdivided into four different levels of achievement from Level 1 to Level 4 (Level 4 being the highest).
A club entering the program selects from one of the three major types of clubs that comprise the majority of club programs. The requirements vary slightly for each of type of clubs. Read more….
Link to USA Swimming's website Club Recognition page.
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