By Annie Grevers, Swimming World Staff Writer
The teenage years are not necessarily one’s most selfless stage in life. Your own swimming career grows ever more important and your swims can begin to dictate how you treat other people. It’s not that teenage swimmers are incapable of being selfless, contributive, caring for those around them; it’s just that many times, they have no idea how much of a ripple effect their actions and reactions have on those around them.
In the American Swimming Coaches Association’s most recent newsletter, a presentation from the 2015 World ASCA Clinic entitled “Cultural Headwind” was documented. Don Heidary of Orinda Aquatics gave the talk emphasizing the importance of character in shaping the culture of his club team. Heidary took a comprehensive look at what technology and public figures are doing to our youth.
I jumped on the Heidary wagon as soon as I read this– “Kim Kardashian. Worst offense: promoting appearance over achievement….She teaches kids that it is not what you do that makes you important, it is how you look and how you leverage those looks.” Social media was another of Heidary’s talking points. He quoted a “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” film critic– “We stand in a crowd, staring into a glossy scree, scrolling into oblivion, lost to ourselves. Alone.”
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