Strategic goals Artistic Swimming aligned with AAF draft.xlsx

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1	Strategic Goals for Artistic Swimming Aruba - Period 2025-2028
2		AAF Strategic Direction	Derived Goal Artistic Swimming	Baseline July 2025	Goal to be achieved in 2028	Action Items	Action Owner
3							AS TC	Barracudas
4	1	Improving the governance structure	AS TC is in place and follows AAF governance framework with clearly defined roles for athlete development, competition planning, fundraising, and promotion. Ensure that all decisions and plans are documented and reported to AAF.	AS TC is in place
5	2	Ensuring transparency and accountability	Create and share annual Artistic Swimming activity reports, budget summaries, and selection criteria for national and international events with members and parents through digital platforms	General assembly meetings are held yearly around Oct/ Nov. during which the annual report of the previous year, budget of the coming year, and competition plans for the coming year are shared with members and parents. Competition results are always shared with members and parents through the members Whatsapp groupchat.
6	3	Strengthening inclusivity and diversity	Introduce inclusive recruitment campaigns in schools and other communities to attract young athletes (boys and girls) from all backgrounds.	Not structurally and actively being done
7	4	Increase member engagement	Conduct annual satisfaction surveys to assess communication and engagement	Not being done
8	5	Striving for ethical leadership and integrity	Adopt the AAF's code of conduct and organize yearly workshops on integrity, respect, and fair play for all AS athletes, parents, coaches, judges and technical officials.	Rules and regulations are in place	Rules and regulations are revised and updated where necessary, and distributed with all members	Centralize AS rules on AS Google drive. Review and update where necessary.	X
9	5	Striving for ethical leadership and integrity		Organogram AS has been drafted	Organogram is revised, finalized, and placed centrally on the AS Google drive	Revise organogram and place on Google drive	X
10	6	Achieving sustainability goals	Implement sustainable practices during trainings and events (eg. Reduce plastic use, encourage reuse of costumes and props)
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12		AAF Main Goal	Derived Goal Artistic Swimming	Baseline July 2025	Goal to be achieved in 2028	Action Items	Action Owner
13							AS TC	Barracudas
14	7	Enhancing sports performance	Develop a performance improvement plan focused on flexibility, strength, endurance, and artistic impression. Organize joint training camps with regional partners and use video analysis to improve techniques.	Selection test document is in place / yearly training camps are being organized	Integral performace improvement plan is in place	Review selection test document and prepare calendar and document results.	X
15				Yearly training camps are organized				X
16				STAR diplomas are already in place and being performed 3-4 times per year. Athlete can achieve STAR 1-6.			X	X
17					New training methods have been developed.
18	8	Developing talent	Introduce an early talent identification program. Create clear athlete progression pathways toward national and regional competitions	Is there already a structure in place for this?
19	9	Expanding sports participation	Promote AS through school demonstrations, 'Try-out' events, and media campaigns targeting girls and boys from the age of 6 years. Develop a recreational AS group to retain athletes not aiming for elite competition.	Try-out' events are held periodically (2x per year)	Try-out events are held structurally 2x per year	Digital flyers are created and posted on AS and AAF social media channels		X
20					Distribution of flyers in primary schools is done every August	Create flyers and distribute at all primary schools in Aruba		X
21					School visits and demonstration program is planned for and included in AS schedule	Coach to decide which athletes and which time period of the year athletes can do these demonstrations in school / 'spreekbeurt' kit created to be used by AS athletes in their schools		X
22	10	Plan, coordinate, compete	Design and publish an annual calendar of local and international competitions, including training milestones and fundraising activities.
23	11	Sustainable infrastructure use	Advocate for improved pool quality. Also for sound system upgrades for more synchronized routines. Share facility time more effectively with other disciplines.	AAF has been talking to the pool management and the Gov't of Aruba to improve the quality of the water of the pool.
24	12	Effective communication & collaboration	Strengthen ties with other AAF disciplines, COA, and regional federations to share best practices, joint camps, competitions, and communication platforms. Actively contribute AS updates to the AAF's public communication channels.	As per the appointment of the new AAF board, an AS liaison was appointed to be part of the AAF board, as to have an AS representative in the board, and also to make the communication lines between the federation and AS shorter. AS Aruba has recently invited countries in the region to participate to its national Aruban Championships held in June 2025, to which the Cur federation and 2 clubs participated. AS already shares updates through the AAF communication channels.
25	13	Mental health and resilience	Collaborate with mental health professionals to deliver age-appropriate sessions on confidence, focus, and stress-management for AS athletes. Integrate wellness check-ins before and after competitions.	Sporadically AS is offered mental health sessions. However, this should be structured, and, if possible, also subsidized.	Sessions with mental health consultants and other health consultants (eg. nutritionists) should be facilitated to the AS athletes	This needs to be implemented still	X
26			Create a safe environment for athletes		A 'Verklaring Omtrent Gedrag' is in place, and needs to be signed by all coaches and other persons working with the AS athletes	This needs to be implemented still (and might be an idea to implement it higher up under AAF)	X
27					A 'vertrouwenspersoon' is appointed	This needs to be implemented still	X
28	14	Equal opportunities for all athletes	Collaborate with health professionals to deliver age-appropriate sessions on health-related topics.	Sporadically AS is offered health sessions. (COA offers this more structurally, however, only to a selected few). This should be structured, and, if possible, also subsidized by sport subsidies for all AS athletes.	Clinics by a dietist and other health-related clinics to improve the athletes' health and strength, and facilitated by sport subsidies	This needs to be implemented still	X
29	15	Improving coaching quality	Organize annual coaching clinics and certification programs in collaboration with World Aquatics and PanAm Aquatics. The purpose is for the coaches to remain up to date with regards to the sport, new training methods based on international best practices, and also to obtain periodic refresher courses on necessary soft skills required when working with youngsters.	When attending international competitions, coaches are offered clinics. However, these are not always attended fully.	AS might want to include in its rules and regulations that its coaches need to take at least 1 coaching related course per year. The type of course should be chosen together with the AS TC and daily board of club.	This needs to be implemented still	X	X
30	15	Improving coaching quality			Yearly performance appraisal evaluations of all coaches	TC to draft performance appraisel / Barracudas to perform the yearly appraisals with the coaches before the end of each season (July/ August)	X	X
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