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this is the warnings for fell from monday june twenty seventh two thousand
eleven and it was bigger bush in the thirties monitor today
but i think that he passing she's the head of the u_s_a_ swimming foundation
and she joins us right now in the police monitor from colorado springs
again we welcome back to the shower area
they hear right peter how are you know going great how has that transition been
from
in heading up
u_s_a_ diving to now being back in the pool
expand wonderful
and that's my guiding friends but i'm really happy to be here at swimming back
in the sport where i started from when i was in the pool
and uh... the u_s_ is some information essentially
the main goal is to to raise money and also some other things but
bill but uh... what do you see this year
as the the heading for the figure
more call it i guess but i think first and foremost what we're trying to do
this year's about that one simple long-range strategic plan for the
organization
and really decide where we're going to go
some of the first things we've done is really just strategize water overarching
vision is for the organization and we've come up with a new taglines saving lives
in building champions and what we're doing with the saving lives pieces with
our biggest last child but this water safety initiative
and what the building champions what we're trying to do is create
a legacy for u_s_a_ swimming
that allows us to keep u_s_a_ swimming number one in the world
and i'm i'm really excited to end up asking about both both sides of of those
uh... and
both sides of that
and how do you go from
coming up with the slogan in the visiontek and making it happen
those are the places where working on right now we're actually doing a
planning meeting here this weekend with our board
which consists of past presidents of u_s_a_ swimming
and as we get higher
working hard with staff both at the u_s_a_ summing foundation and within the
u_s_a_ swimming
office to develop it on what we want our our long-range plan today
what how's the organization as the foundation i should say
significantly different than it was a year or two ago
well i think one of the things we're trying to do really is the strategic
interest asians and
well um... but you know one thing is when you belong to a foundation as many
people they are looking for resources
and what do you wanna do israeli target on just that
a few key initiatives and first and foremost we have our make a splash
initiative
and right now with them because by finished and we have to decide the back
one is art school art that we do calmer make his quest for with colin jones and
that is going out to states cities
this summer and our goal is to really teach water safety awareness cheap get
people into the water get most particularly children into the water so
they can learn to swim
believe it or not nobles seventy percent of minorities in this country cannot
swim and we want a change that because what we can do you answer my teaching
kids to swim is save their life in case they ever get into any situation on
water
the other side of it is our buildings here inside
and right now that's really been focused on our national team we give support to
our national team we give support to our national team coach has and in the
future we also give support to our national team aptly but what we want to
do with six p_m_ at in product nasco and really develop it into what is the
content eighty continued to get the resources to swimming to keep the bomb
this port number one in the world
is there
at danger
that you know it after two thousand twelve say at the money starts right up
a little bit and
you know i think having conference in about a national governing bodies unique
i'm really reliant on support from new york olympic committee
and i think one of the goals as a national governing body is always then
to reduce the amount that you rely on them because they were never sure where
uh... wherein if they're going to have the money in future years to sonar
self-reliant we can become
and the more uh...
uh...
proactive and providing those resources so it you know i think one of the things
that slivers uh... many people that have come up to somebody whether a parent or
coach
our national swimmer yourself
i think one of the things we've all learned is that and slamming we've
learned many key skills we believe leadership we've learned hard workers
want discipline
we've learned to get out early in the morning and
uh... to make early morning practice and those things we want to continue to
instill into future generations and so
you know one of the things were really hoping to develop is
for those people that have been swimmers in their lives how do we continue to get
back just the way too many people get back to their colleges
how can we get back to the future generations of swimmers
would you say it's maybe non-fat resource kind of swimming alumni so to
speak to us
accelerating and part of what our foundation doesn't support our national
team along night but we also live up to capture
alumni from slimming down from from whatever level you came from my talks
with arthur lopez who runs that a program in washington d_c_ that house
latinos learn to swim and part of his mission in building the champion side of
it is just making these kids productive citizens in their life by helping to
learn the skill set of swimming
uh... everybody has their own story
you know that we certain people have gone to college and gotten college
scholarships and uh... but in some way swimming has helped us become better
people in line
totally agreed with me
thank you very much for joining us good luck with the mission
thank him
right that that he has to joining us from colorado springs
and is it for today show i'm peter bush reminding you that
if you had done of finish