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General
Information
The Aiken-Augusta
Swim League (ASL) was founded over 30 years ago and is known
throughout the region as a strong, year round swim team. The
ASL program is designed by professional coaches interested in
helping develop successful people who swim well. We offer a
guided age-group youth program for children age 6 and up, from the
beginning swimmer to the most competitive and skilled
swimmer. When a young person becomes a member of the Aiken
Augusta Swim League he/she learns the values of sportsmanship and
team work. Swimming, through the Aiken-Augusta Swim League,
provides physical, emotional and intellectual skills that will last
a lifetime.
The Aiken-Augusta
Swim League is a United States Swimming (USAS) affiliated
team. We welcome competitive swimmers and will help and
encourage them to reach their full potential as swimmers and
people.
ASL Team
Handbook
The Team
Handbook is a great resource for swimmers and parents. Please take
a few minutes to review it. There’s a table of contents at
the beginning that will help you. Some of the information may be a
little out-dated - the coaches information for example is old. But
most of it is pertinent and will be a real help, especially to new
families.
Click here to see the
ASL Team Handbook.
Philosophy
ASL sees swimming as an important part of the overall development
of a young boy or girl. Besides the most obvious benefit of
physical conditioning, swimming fosters the personal discipline
required to persevere; the confidence-building of progress in
competition, the social growth from travel and learning to accept
winning and losing with equal grace; and the sense of values joined
from competing as both an individual and a team member.
The ASL program strives to instill in
young swimmers an understanding of, and appreciation for such
concepts as high self-esteem, personal accountability, constructive
self-motivation, goal setting and goal achievement as these ideas
relate to their success in training and in competition. It is
our belief that the process of achieving is as significant as
realizing the achievement itself.
At each level of the ASL program, swimmers are instructed to strive
for excellence. Excellence in this sense represents the
achievement of that level at which you know that you have done you
utmost to become the best you are capable of becoming. This
philosophy is consistent throughout the program for every
swimmer. We want every swimmer to swim to the best of their
own ability and seek the opportunity to attain the level of
excellence to which their desire and ability will move them.
We believe swimmers and their parents alike should enjoy swimming
and remember it as a positive experience.
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