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LAPS IS A
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LAPS OFFICE
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2007-2008
Short Course Season
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2008 Long Course Season
TEAM SPONSORS
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Better Late Than Never
Bio Lab
Builders Sav-Mor
Citgo
Crawford Orthodontics
Edward Jones
Entergy
Jeff Davis Bank
Kiwanis
Lake Area Plumbing
Lone Oak Lake
Mansfield Industrial
Mark Dodge
Meadwestvaco
Hugh Raetzsch, D.D.S.
Sabine Pools
Sage Environmental
Southside Mini Storage
T-Shirt Wearhouse
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Swimming is a Competitve Sport |
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Swimming is a competitive sport. That is a fact. While we encourage you to emphasize individual growth, development and improvement with your child, it is undeniable that the main means of measurement is a competitive situation, i.e. the swim meet. Swim meets should be enjoyable for you and your child. If the meet is a high pressure, scary experience for your child it would be worth evaluating several factors. Is the child:
* Ready for competition?
* Ready for that particular level of competition?
* Feeling undue pressure to perform or "win?"
The messages that you send before and after competition have a great deal of effect on your child's perception of the competition. When you emphasize fun, skill development and effort you help your child gain a winning perspective. The same is true for comments you make and questions you ask before and after swim practice. Some children are naturally more competitive and are very aware of times, places and outcomes. Others are less interested in such things. The highly competitive child may need to be taught to focus on other aspects of competition so that he/she doesn't become obsessed with winning and afraid of failure. The less competitive child may need more encouragement to recognize personal improvement.
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