Open Water Swimming Camps, Clinics, Challenges And Conferences
Open water swimming camps are increasingly being held all over the world and can refer to informal or formal clinics, seminars, training camps, conferences, webinars or get-togethers where open water coaches and swimmers discuss, train and learn from one another. The camps often include luminaries of the sport as well as related professionals from physicians to nutritionists.
Some are free and run by volunteers wishing to share their passion and knowledge. Some require a nominal cost just to cover basic expenses of the volunteers and coaches. And some are more expensive run by aquapreneurs. Some are in warm weather locations with a laid-back itinerary. Others are held in cold water locations with the specific purpose of training with other hard-core swimmers for the English Channel.
Below are a representative sampling of the available camps, clinics and conferences:
- Jamie’s Swim Camp (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, U.S.A.) – Jamie Patrick, host and organizer
- Cork Distance Week (Sandycove, Ireland) – Ned Denison, head coach
- The Eton Camp (Eton, England) – Nick Adams, head coach
- Strel Swimming Adventure Holidays (Utah, U.S.A., Croatia, and Slovenia) – Martin Strel and Borut Strel, hosts
- Coningham-Rolls Swimming Holidays (Europe) – John Coningham-Rolls, head coach
- Jersey Long Distance Swimming Camp (Jersey) – Sally Anne Minty-Gravett, head coach
- SwimTrek (Turkey, Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Croatia, Greece, Virgin Islands, Finland, Scotland, Spain, Malta) – Simon Murie, host
- Open Water Swimming Mastery, Australia – Shelley Taylor-Smith
- Masters Dream Camp (Greece) – Andrea Di Nino and Apostolos Tsagarakis, head coaches
- Pacific Swims (Fiji and Vanuatu) – Paul McCoy, organizer
- Tri Now (Texas, U.S.A.)
- VMPS Open Water Swim Clinic (Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
- The Sport Factory (Georgia, U.S.A.)
- NYC Swim (New York, U.S.A.) – Morty Berger, organizer
- The Big Blue Swim (Greece) – Lisa Stansbie and Michael Koumbouzis, co-founders
- Mary Meyer Life Fitness (Washington, U.S.A.)
- Water World Swim / Swim with Pedro (California, U.S.A.) – Pedro Ordenes, head coach
- Asphalt Green Open Water Swim Clinics (New York, U.S.A.)
- Swim Vacation (British Virgin Islands, Maine and Hawaii, U.S.A.) – George Hopper McDonough, head coach
- Swim Art (California, U.S.A.) – Leslie Thomas, head coach
- Swim Gym (Florida, U.S.A.) – Robert Strauss, head coach
- Glen Christiansen International Swim Camps (Germany) – Glen Christiansen, head coach
- Tower 26 (Pacific Palisades, California, U.S.A.) – Gerry Rodrigues, head coach
- Aquatic Edge (Hawaii, U.S.A.) – Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen, head coach
- Club La Santa (Canary Islands, Spain)
- Total Immersion (Hawaii, U.S.A., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands]] – Terry Laughlin, head TI coach
- Tri 2 Be More (Maryland, U.S.A.)
- Mile High Multisport Clinics (Colorado, U.S.A.) – Peter Alfino and Kathy Alfino, coaches
- Ask Coach Sean (Texas, U.S.A.) – Sean Gassman
- Swim Velocity (California, U.S.A.) – Martha Szufnarowski, head coach
- MRA Multisport (Massachusetts, U.S.A.) – Megan Rogozenski, head coach
- Bucks County OW Swim Clinics (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) – Todd Wiley, head coach
- Terri Schneider Clinics (California, U.S.A.) – Terri Schneider, head coach
- Personal Best Nutrition (New Jersey, U.S.A.) – Brian Shea, head coach
- Wave One Swimming (Washington D.C., U.S.A.) – Denis Crean, head coach
- Bayshore Swim (New York, U.S.A.)
- Global Open Water Swimming Conference (California, U.S.A.) – Steven Munatones, host
- One With The Water (California, U.S.A.) – Mallory Mead, head coach
- Tri-Umph Open Water Swim Clinics (Illinois, U.S.A.)
- Max Performance (Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
- Triple Threat Tough (Texas and Minnesota, U.S.A.) – Lea Kirdatt, head coach
- Streamlined Performance (Arizona, U.S.A.)
- Fearless Swimming Clinics (Newport Beach, California, U.S.A.) – Ingrid Loos Miller, head coach
- Peak Performance Pros (Wisconsin, U.S.A.)
- Open Water Select Camp (Florida, U.S.A.) – USA Swimming coaching staff
- ETA Coach Swim Camps (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) – Bill Sepich and Cole Gindhart
- Bold and Beautiful (Manly Beach, Australia) – Julie Isbill, founder
- Camp Ak-O-Mak (Ontario, Canada) – Dianne Young, Executive Director
- Rachael Wood Coaching (Florida, U.S.A.) – Rachael Wood, founder
- Competitive Swim Camps (Canada) – Clint Stevens and Dean Kondziolka, head coaches
- Gone Swimming (North Wales) – Dan Graham and Gabby Dickinson, head coaches
- Swimming Without Stress (United Kingdom)
- Open Water Swimming Mastery (Australia) – Shelley Taylor-Smith, head coach
- Endurance Sports Coaching (United Kingdom) – Andy Bullock
- H2Open Magazine‘s H2Open Day (United Kingdom) – Simon Griffiths
- Swim Smooth (Australia, United Kingdom) – Paul Newsome
Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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