We are in week 3 of a five week camp, doing swimming and water polo.

In the wake of:

a recent Citiparks Aquatics Division audit by City Controller Michael Lamb, as well as

my participation with the PPS Athletic Reform Task Force, and

the merger of some PPS high school sports teams to the WPIAL, and

the 2012 arrival of additional, terrible, institutional roadblocks at PPS,

it is prudent push all involved to 'think again' about aquatics. An overhaul of aquatics with the city, PPS and others is past due, especially in…

Continue

Sports News - RESULTS:





HEADLINE: Pittsburgh Combined gets 3rd at Ohio Water Polo Tournament -beats Upper Arlington 11-6.

High School Water Polo Results:

Pittsburgh Combined, with high school athletes from Pittsburgh PublicSchools and Shaler Area, finished in third place in the Ohio Cup WaterPolo Tournament JV hosted in…

Continue

http://athleticbusiness.com/editors/blog/default.aspx?id=479&t=NATA-Says-Time-is-Running-Out-for-Sports

 

I posted that if the legislative critters were really interested in sports safety, then teaching the kids to swim would be at the top of everyone's agenda.

 

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/4805315/Bombing-champs-make-a-splash

 

Bombing, in this case, is an aquatics activity, much like diving, but for the splash effect. Dudes in New Zealand are trying to build up the sport there and want to take it world-wide in the future.

 

We should have some national qualification meets and build to…

Continue

http://ncaa.com/buick/#page=home&video=830460692001

 

You might need to go to that site to view the clip. Very powerful. Well done. (Make A Splash).

 

 

What the heck?

 

http://www.newser.com/story/114062/teacher-fights-for-job-after-quip-about-deadly-field-trip.html

This is a longer document that covers a pending Swim and Water Polo Camp that we'll be running in Pittsburgh for Pittsburgh Public Schools in July and August 2011. It goes 5 weeks and is offered at a city high school for kids that are going into middle school grades (6th, 7th and 8th graders).

 

Feedback welcomed here.

 …

Continue

Hi Swim Friends,

 

Anyone else going to the PIAA Swim Meet (PA High School States)? Would be fun to meet there. Let me know: Mark -at- Rauterkus -dot- com.

 

Best of luck to your tapers and spring break periods.

 

Coach Mark

WQED OnQ OnDemand



Continue

Check out this article about Coach Holder in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_687475.html

I'm working on a grant application, of sorts. I could use some help and input.



Are there any grant writers in the soup here? Can you self identify? Reply to this post please.



Furthermore, it would be great to have some grant template fodder for re-use in my grant applications. So, if others have finished grant applications and have wordsmithed some of the basics for aquatics, then I'd love to have those posted here, within the NING, too.



Grant application links… Continue

We had a great first week of water polo playing in the central part of Pittsburgh. We got Citiparks to let us try a new program at a low-use pool in The Hill District part of town, next to the Ammon Rec Center, 2216 Bedford Ave.



On the first day, 24 kids. By Wednesday, we had 40 kids.



Here we are gathered, a bit, after the second day.



We are playing every Monday to Friday from 11 am to 12:30 pm. Come on by. Pass the… Continue

From ormsby-serpents

Pittsburgh has a city swim meet in August at Highland Park Pool. Here is a squad from the South… Continue