Yes, I agree with Matt. I think resources going towards coaching are important, especially resources going towards coaching that will help people understand the sport of swimming. I think we're in a situation where.... I coach kids who are eight years old and under. We practise four times a week, and we have a swim meet maybe once every three weeks, if we're lucky, whereas in hockey you have two practices a week and then a game, which is consistent, so there are a lot of direct payoffs.
In the sport of swimming, as Matt was saying, we have competition from other clubs, and they may be training their kids more and getting results now, but in the long term, that's not the case. I think if funding went into coaching and into helping coaches to develop a club.... Maybe the situation is that “this is where you live and this is where you're going to swim”. If you're able to develop a club and hold onto this group of kids through their lifetime of swimming, I really think that would benefit the sport. Doing that through allowing funding to go to the swim club and the coaches is a smart way to start.