Take a dive with Connecticut High School Swim Coach, Lee Schwartzman, as he discusses his annual BPOTY (Best Practice of the Year) tradition set! The set is designed to encourage athlete's the blindly set a "Fast" bar and then coax them into reaching, striving, and encouraging one another to not just meet the bar, but to exceed the bar!

Lee has been coaching for 28 years. He has been the Head Coach at Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, CT for 15 years where his Eagles and Lady Eagles have combined for a total record of 227-49-1. The Lady Eagles have won their Conference for the last 13 years. In total the boys and girls have won 26 conference titles since he took over. Both teams regularly place in the top 5 at the State Meet and both teams also consistently finish in the top 10 in the NISCA Dual Meet PowerPoint National Championship in their respective class. In 2009 he won the CT High School Boys Coach of the Year. He prides himself on that the fact that 99% of the athletes that have swum for all four years have graduated as a state qualifier. Lee has been teaching for 18 years and is a graduate of the University of Tennessee. He also completed a Master's Degree four years ago in Educational Counseling and Leadership with an emphasis on Positive Coaching from the University of Missouri.

Link to Lee's practice: bit.ly/leeschwartzmanwow

Link to all NISCA WOW practices: bit.ly/niscawow

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