Nike Swim Camp at UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California
The Nike Swim Camp at the University of California, Santa Cruz is designed to help competitive swimmers improve their overall stroke technique so they can compete at the next level.
UC Santa Cruz is an easy drive from the Bay Area and beyond. The campus, defined by rolling meadows and towering redwoods, is a perfect environment for the Nike Swim Camp and has always been a camper favorite! UC Santa Cruz offers an Olympic-sized pool with an ocean view, comfortable dormitories, and an excellent dining hall.
Upon arrival at camp, campers are placed in groups with other swimmers having similar abilities and goals. Our camp staff will do their best to accommodate your needs, keeping in consideration your experience and desire to improve.
Highlights Include
- Stroke technique refinement for competitive swimming
- Low camper to staff ratio and 24 hour supervision
- Two daily water sessions; one daily dry-land session
- Fun evening activities
- Every camper receives a Nike Camp T-shirt and Nike Swim Cap
The Nike Swim Camp at UC Santa Cruz is open to any and all entrants. For your safety and benefit, we recommend you have competitive swimming experience (e.g. U.S.S. age group, national qualifiers, high school swimmers, or summer league swimmers) and can swim at least 50 meters in all four competitive strokes: fly, back, breast and freestyle.
Meet your coaching staff
Camp Director
Kim Musch
Directing the camp is long time Nike Swim Camp director and UC Santa Cruz Head Swim Coach, Kim Musch. Over the past 11 years, Coach Musch has produced over 100 All Americans, 2 National Champions, an Olympic Trial Qualifier, a Maccabien Games Gold Medalist, 5 PCSC Conference swimmers of the meet, 4 UCSC Athletes of the Year, and 4 NCAA National swimmers of the week. He has also coached over 1000 Nike Swim Campers from around the world and continues to receive email updates from his past campers.
Read Full BioAs a collegiate swimmer, Musch swam for the University of California, Berkeley from 1973-1977, where as a senior, he was elected Team Captain. After coaching stints with Santa Cruz Aquatics and Chabot College in Hayward, Musch returned to Cal in 1981 as an assistant to Nort Thorton. That same year he formed the Golden Bear Swim Club. Well over a dozen Golden Bear swimmers went on to compete in the Olympic Games for various countries during his time as Head Coach. World records, US Open records, National records and Age-Group National Champions came out of the Golden Bear Swim Team.
After leaving Cal, he worked several years at the Blackhawk Country Club in Danville. Although the Blackhawk Swim Team was a small team of only 30-40 year-round swimmers, they went on to have Individual Junior National Event Champions, Senior National finalists, an Olympic Trial Qualifier, High School All-Americans, and numerous National top 16 age group award winners.
CAMP DETAILS
Campers are supervised 24 hours a day. The staff live in the dormitories with the campers and participate in evening activities. Drugs, alcohol and tobacco are strictly prohibited, and constitute, along with general misconduct, grounds for dismissal from camp without a refund.
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Read camper reviews
Excellent coaching!
Nike Swim Camp is seriously awesome, and absolutley helps your swimming technique! I give it 2 GIANT thumbs up. - extremely pleased camper
Great time!
The swim sets were enjoyable while I was learning, yet working hard. Visualization exercises were awesome. Explanations were good and coaches were responsive to questions or re-explaining a concept. Learning about equipment was great and getting to watch films of myself was great.
Great camp!
At this particular camp the coaches made all the difference. Our daughter was having issues with false starts (flinching at the start) and was getting DQ'd in some of her races. The coaches picked this up without a mention of it and helped her to fix it.
Amazing camp!
Definitely worth the time and money! My son has gone to one other camp and he did not improve much then, but this one really helped him. The group size was perfect to give the kids enough one on one time with the coaches. My son's swim team coach and we saw a big difference in just the first two days of camp. He can't for next year's camp.
Thank you!
Both of my girls enjoyed the camp very much and felt they gained from the experience. They want to come back next year.
Alec Z.
Loved camp!
My Nike Swim Camp experience has been great, and I will definitely sign up for more in the future!
Parent of UC Santa Cruz Swimmer
Great instruction!
Coach Kim did a very good job of instructing in various ways - verbally, visually, written form so kids could absorb the information in the best way for them and in multiple ways to really get the point of the exercise or information. He also seemed to have a good sense of developing a long-term swimmer and the whole swimmer.