2019 Starts, Breakouts & IM Crossover Turn Clinic

Starts, Breakouts & IM Crossover Turn Clinic
Saturday, February 9, 2019
1:00pm-3:00pm
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

Cost: NELMSC Members $30, non-NELMSC Members $60
Head Coach: Matt Emmert, Roger Williams University

***Coaches - if you are interested in supporting this on-deck, please email Crystie necoaches@usms.org

Clinic Description:
This clinic will teach Masters swimmers and coaches how to maximize power and speed off the blocks and walls. We will focus on starts, breakouts, and the IM crossover turn.

Our goals are to instill participants with confidence in their starts and turns and to arm them with useful information to share with their local clubs.

Head Coach Matt Emmert will lead the clinic, assisted by his staff and on-deck USMS coaches, with in-water demonstrations from some of Roger Williams University’s top varsity swim team members.

This clinic is organized and sponsored by the New England Local Masters Swimming Committee for current members of U.S. Masters Swimming.  


About the Head Coach:

Matt Emmert is known as one of New England’s top coaches for individual stroke refinement and efficiency. Since 2012 he has served as the aquatics director and head coach of Roger Williams University’s swimming and diving programs. In 2017 both the men's and women's teams won the New England Intercollegiate Association Swimming & Diving Championships and Emmert was named NEISDA Swim Coach of the Year.

Coach Emmert also founded and directs Kingfish Rhode Island, a successful USA Swimming club, which has produced numerous Rhode Island Interscholastic League state champions and record holders and whose swimmers compete at the local, regional and national levels. He also nurtures youth swimmers through his Ocean State Swim Camp and organizes showcase summer training camps for high school swimmers at Roger Williams University.

Emmert is a U.S. Masters Swimming member affiliated with New England Masters Swim Club and SwimRI. He has coached Masters Swimming programs at Roger Williams University and St. George’s School in Rhode Island, and he each year he hosts and supports multiple Masters events.

Emmert served as a Division 1 assistant coach at the University of Maryland and at Texas Christian University. During his senior year at the University of Rhode Island, he was named the D1 swim team’s captain and MVP.