New Jersey Race Club Founded in 2006
Compete with the best, bring New Jersey to National/Highest Level
Why NJRC Over Other Teams?
While New Jersey Race Club boasts athletes at the Junior and Senior National level, other teams are also competitive at the National level. Why then, should you choose NJRC?
New Jersey Race Club offers one of the best teams in the area. Its "small team" approach allows each family and team member to feel important, it has been a goal, and will continue, that NJRC works hard at trying to meet each team member's needs no matter what level of swimming the child may be. We know that developing young athletes at all levels takes a personal approach and we at NJRC are proud to be able to provide such a service.
Over the years New Jersey Race Club graduating members have gone on to some of the best universities in the country and have gone on to be very successful in all endeavors of their life, many much beyond swimming. These are our true rewards and will only continue to grow.
NJRC Parent Responsibilities
Please make every effort to have your swimmers to practice on time. Realize that your child is working hard, and give all the support you can. Encourage good diet and sleep habits. They will serve your children well.
The greatest contribution you can make to your swimmer's progress is to be a loving, supportive parent.
1. Make sure that your child knows that win or lose, scored or heroic, you love him/her, appreciate their efforts, and are not disappointed in them. This will allow them to do their best without a fear of failure. Be the person in their life they can look to for constant positive reinforcement.
2. Try your best to be completely honest about your child’s athletic ability, his/hers competitive attitude, their sportsmanship, and their actual skill level.
3. Be helpful, but don’t coach him/her on the way to the pool or on the way back, or at breakfast, and so on. It’s tough not to, but it’s a lot tougher for the child to be inundated with advice, pep talks and often critical instruction.
4. Teach them to enjoy the thrill of competition, to be “out there trying,” to be working to improve his/her swimming skills and attitude. Help him/her to develop the feel for competing, for trying hard, for having fun.
5. Try not to re-live your athletic life through your child in a way that creates pressure; you lost as well as won. You were frightened, you backed off at times, you were not always heroic. Don’t pressure your child because of your pride. Athletic children need their parents so you must not withdraw. Just remember there is a thinking, feeling, sensitive free spirit out there in that uniform who needs a lot of understanding, especially when his world turns bad. If he/she is comfortable with you — win or lose — he/she is on their way to maximum achievement and enjoyment.
6. Don’t compete with the coach. If the coach becomes an authority figure, it will run from enchantment to disenchantment, etc., with your athlete.
7. Don’t compare skill, courage, or attitudes of your child with other members of the team, at least within his/her hearing.
8. Get to know the coach so that you can be assured that his/her philosophy, attitudes, ethics and knowledge are such that you are happy to have your child under his/her leadership.
9. Always remember that children tend to exaggerate, both when praised and when criticized. Temper your reaction and investigate before over-reacting.
10. Make a point of understanding courage, and the fact that it is relative. Some of us can climb mountains and are afraid to fight. Some of us will fight, but turn to jelly if a bee approaches. Everyone is frightened in certain areas. Explain that courage is not the absence of fear, but a means of doing something in spite of fear or discomfort.