Zagreb Overseas Camp and Competition 2017

The region sent a team of 30 swimmers and 5 staff to the Golden Bear meet in Zagreb. The group left Heathrow early on Thursday morning arriving in Zagreb about midday. They had a one training session on Thursday afternoon and two on Friday as well as talks.

The camp was a mixture of education, training and competition with the aim of exposing developing athletes to the expectations and strategies required at international level.

Athletes were challenged around monitoring themselves across the 5 days, developing thoughts around race reflection and objective setting, along with reviewing and applying pre- race and post-race processes.

One of the main educational aims linked with the competition was to improve communication between athlete and coach prior to and post racing. To open this communication is very dependent on an athlete’s ability to self-reflect their performances (current and past). For many team members this was a novel experience.

Despite the competition being more about process than outcome the swimmers competed well with all swimmers making finals and bring home a clutch of medals.

Medalists were:

Gold

Lily Booker: City of Bristol/ Bath Dolphin 200m Breast

Jasper Lye: City of Bristol/ Bath Dolphin 200m Breast

Athena Clayson: Mt. Kelly 100m Back

Athena Clayson Mt. Kelly 50m Back

Shauntelle Austin Bath Uni 200m Back

Silver

Athena Clayson Mt. Kelly 200m Back

Athena Clayson Mt. Kelly 100m Free

Shauntelle Austin Bath Uni 100m Back

Evan King Weston Super Mare 200m Fly