Badger Junior Team

Developing swimmers who are strongly motivated people, to foster their love of swimming and inspire them to keep swimming

Overview

The Badger Junior Team has always been a highly successful USS club, both in the Metropolitan area and nationally, consistently producing nationally ranked Top 10 swimmers as well as Top 10 relays. Badger junior swimmers have gone on to be State, Sectional and Regional Champions, World champions, NCAA and Olympic champions.

Philosophy

The goal of the Junior Team is to develop great swimmers who are strongly motivated people, to foster their love of swimming and inspire them to keep swimming. On the Junior Team, success will be achieved by expert stroke analysis (including the latest Dartfish technology through video analysis), starts and turns, dry land training, endurance building, mental conditioning, goal setting, goal achievement, meet preparation, psychology and race tactics/strategy.

Head Coach Kip Fierro

Head Junior team Coach Kip Fierro has been eating, sleeping and breathing Badger for forty years, first as an alumnus of John Collins and then as Badger Age Group Head Coach for over twenty-five years. He has been the Head Coach of the New Rochelle High School team for twelve years, was Head Coach at the New York Athletic Club for eighteen years and Head Coach at Coveleigh Club for three years.

Asst. Coach Dominic Galimi

Assistant Coach Dominic Galimi has been coaching the Badger Age Group team for ten years. He is also coach of the Bronxville Girls High School Swim Team, the Fordham Prep Boys Swim Team and Larchmont Yacht Club.

Asst. Coach Adam King

Assistant Coach Adam King has been coaching the Badger Age Group team for the past nine years. He has also been the New Rochelle High School Assistant Coach for the past ten years. During the summer, Adam is the Head Coach at Coveleigh Club in Rye.