Swimming

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Dates

July 5 to 9, 2026

The Program

This exciting, co-ed summer clinic is for swimmers entering grades 9-12 who swim competitively. Students must be at least 12 years old by start of clinic. Designed to enhance the technical aspects of stroke, training and the strategies needed for each student to compete at the top level of competitive swimming. This program includes:

• Technical instruction
• Stretching and dry land training
• Training principles
• Stroke development
• Additional advanced workouts available for competitive swimmers who are in training
• Practice sessions held in a 25-yard indoor competition pool, located in Alfred University's McLane Center
• Each athlete will be videotaped and receive a DVD with stroke analysis
• Fun recreational activities
• Camp T-shirt

Level

High School; Beginners Encouraged

Tuition, Meals & Housing

Program Cost: $1,000

Program Deposit: $100

This pricing includes tuition, materials, meals, and housing. All housing and meals will take place here on Alfred University’s campus.

Discounts

We are pleased to offer a $100 discount off tuition for students whose primary residence is within a fifty-mile radius of Alfred, New York, as well as for children of Alfred University Alumni and returning students from any Pre-College Program at Alfred University. Please contact Pre-College Programs Coordinator Isaac Matson for details.

If three or more swimmers from the same school or team enroll in the clinic, they will receive a discount of $25 per person. To be eligible, the same team name must be filled in on each enrollment form.

Further details and directions will be sent to all campers upon our receipt of their enrollment form and payment.

What to Bring

Each student must bring a swimming suit, towel, swim cap, fins and goggles.

About the Instructor

Brian Striker is the Head Swimming and Diving Coach at Alfred University. He was one of the top swimmers in the program’s history while a student at AU, earning All-American certification five times. Coach Striker returned to the University in 2002 to coach the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams. In his twenty years at the helm of the program, he has guided the Saxons to four Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association men’s championships (2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009) and five Empire 8 Conference men’s championship titles (2003, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009).

Striker is a five-time UNYSCSA and Empire 8 Conference Coach of the Year; athletes he has coached have won 163 Empire 8 individual and relays events and 54 UNYSCSA individual and relay events. He shares the school record for consecutive men’s dual-meet coaching victories (28, from 2005-2009). He has coached eight All-Americans at AU, and 71 individual and 31 relay school records have been set. In 2010 Coach Striker was inducted into the Alfred University Athletic Hall of Fame.