As we approach the start of the Girls High School Swim and Dive season here in the great state of Minnesota, we wanted to share how we plan to elevate the visibility and enhance the experience for our athletes, coaches and swim fans! We are all about creating a greater swim community where the entire sport is celebrated and recognized. Our value proposition is that if everyone does just a teeny tiny bit, we will do the rest and make it available and promote it. Too often I hear how swimming get’s no support, no visibility. MSV offers that. Here’s what we have on tap
- Athlete Spotlights: We will reach out to the coaches of two sections per week asking for nominations for athletes to spotlight starting 9/10. We are looking for the kids that demonstrate leadership, effort, and the spirit of the team, not necessarily the fastest swimmers or best divers. Kids that invest as much into the process as they do the results. We will start with 8A and 8AA and work backwards. An email will be sent to the coaches of the section on Sundays. Coaches can respond with either some bullet points on their athlete of choice or write their own. It’s a great opportunity for coaches to get their athletes statewide recognition for the good stuff.
- Times Database: This one is going to take very little effort, but consistent commitment from coaches across the state. The process is simple, and you can watch this video to see how it takes less than a minute. I know athletes want to see this happen and 77% of the coaches that responded to our survey agreed. We will send out an email on Sunday as a reminder for coaches to submit their results.  The database will be on the site and can be filtered by section, class, conference, or team. You can see a demo here. It is exportable as well. Be bold and embrace change.
- Coaches Poll: We are going to give this one a shot. Email on Sundays to coaches every two weeks by class with a link to submit their rankings. Here’s a sample of the simple drag and drop form. Try it out! Submissions are anonymous and results are scored on the backend. We will post results on the high school page of the site.
- Senior night photo page: We love our seniors here at the Vibe. They have tolerated us as coaches for up to six years and are off to bigger and better things in a short time. Let’s give them some press.! Around end of September, we will have a submit photo button on the high school page of the site where coaches or athletes can submit a photo of their seniors on senior night.
- Captains practice check ins on Instagram: Athletes can tag on us a post or story from captains practice, and we will make a highlight reel of them all. Most coaches will have no idea what I’m talking about and that’s ok.
- Instagram takeover:Â If a team wants to take over our Instagram for a fun practice or team outing, they are more than welcome to. Just contact us and mnswimandvibe@gmail.om or via insta DM.
- Coaches Articles: We have had so many great coaches write an article on something they are passionate about that they are willing to share with the coaching community. Contact us with what you want to write about. Or don’t and we will contact you 😊. Proactivity is preferred.
- We make up stuff on the fly: Fun isn’t always planned, in fact, most of the time it’s not. If we get a good suggestion or see an awesome opportunity, we’ll probs take advantage of it.