Parent Resources
Orinda Aquatics runs on two platforms: this website is your hub for team culture, schedules and program overviews, while TeamUnify handles newsletters, billing, registration and volunteer sign-ups. Meet entries run through FastSwims or Swim Connection.
Recommended reading
Articles the coaching staff shares with families, on competition, character, and supporting a young athlete through school and sport.
- Travel Meet Snacks(PDF)
- Rising Individualism (The New York Times)(PDF)
- Want to Raise Successful Kids?(PDF)
- Overparenting (Time Magazine)(DOC)
- 5 Tips to a Better Balance Between School and Sports(DOCX)
- 7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors(DOCX)
- A Coach's Plea to Parents(DOCX)
- Becoming a Winning Swim Parent(DOCX)
- Being a Champion Parent(DOCX)
- Champion Child Syndrome(DOCX)
- Crisis in Teen Stress(DOCX)
- Holding Children Accountable(DOCX)
- How to Attend a Meet(DOCX)
- Seven Habits of Saintly Swim Parents(DOCX)
- Why I Don't Pay for Club Volleyball(PDF)
- How Can You Help Your Child's Team?(PDF)
- Competency, Not Self-Esteem, Should Be the Goal of Education(PDF)