Swimming has a bit too teach Football in Australia, but that's a subject for another time.
The ACT swiming club - Tuggeranong Vikings Swimming Club is a first rate swim club, producing high achieving swimmers at all ages, with one essential ingredient - highly qualified coaching staff. The swimmers in serious training are carefully managed and train hard every day of the working week and Saturday - very often, mornings and afternoons.
The underlying focus is always on what I would call achieving "perfect technique". Its seems to be a never ending quest as swimmers grow, mature, take on more responsibilities in life, decline other alternatives for their meagre recreational time, progress at work, excel in education, establish and maintain relationships and wrestle with the demands of competition.