Swim 21

What is it?

Swim 21 is the ASA's Club Development model - a planning tool, based on the principles of Long Term Athlete Development, enabling clubs to help athletes, teachers, coaches and administrators to achieve their full potential.

It focuses particularly on the needs of athletes - striving to provide them with the best possible support and environment.

Swim 21 Accreditation is a 'Quality mark'. It recognises nationally and regionally the clubs that are committed to providing safe, effective and quality services for the benefit of their members.

Clubs work steadily towards the attainment of a series of outcomes all of which are seen as essential if the right level of support is to be provided at each stage of an athlete's development.

Swim 21 Accreditation is available to ASA clubs of all aquatic disciplines that are positioned at one or more of the four levels of:

- Teaching
- Skill Development
- Competitive Development
- Performance

The ASA has a commitment to achieving its equity targets throughout the sport. Swim 21 is no different and the Association is keen to support clubs in the shared objective of widening the participation base and hence the performance of the sport as a whole.

Working towards Swim 21

To achieve Swim 21 status it is required that we provide our club members with documentation and information regarding club policies and ethics.
It is our aim to keep our members informed of news, notices and policy changes on a regular basis.

This information will be displayed on the Website and dependant on space, the notice board, but please bear in mind that it is sometimes difficult to display all policy documentation and other club information in a single location, so please check both.

It is for this reason that we have collated the documentation together on the website which can be easily accessed by members and which complies with Swim 21 guidelines.

Swim 21 Liaison Officer: Andy Coulson