Coaches' Clinics are returning to three locations in 2024 with a revamped approach to how USA Swimming serves its’ coaches.

With updated material and an improved teaching style, participants will be equipped with the necessary tools to fulfill your commitments to your athletes and ignite your personal and professional growth.

Through hundreds of in-depth, personal interviews, USA Swimming collaborated with over 200 novice and experienced coaches to develop a curriculum dedicated to solving the challenges coaches face daily.

The following topics will be addressed at each clinic:

• Stroke technique and training
• Long-term athlete development training using the American Development Model (ADM)
• Illustrating the key elements of quality coaching using the Quality Coaching Framework (QCF)
• Coach Wellness

The 2024 Coaches' Clinics will run alongside USA Swimming's Spring Select Camps. The coaches' clinic in Indianapolis will also include Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) trainings.

With the updates to our education curriculum, USA Swimming has also shifted its teaching style – directed learning to facilitated learning - to optimize your learning potential.

Facilitated learning encourages participants to take more control of their learning process as the educators provide you with the resources and support to get the most out of the sessions. This creates a learning environment centered around group collaboration to generate discussions focused on the solutions to the challenges facing coaches.

Benefits of facilitated learning:

• Active involvement
• Collaborative learning
• Simulation of daily experience to solve for challenges