Get to know Chris
Chris DeSantis is a coach, athlete and host of the Swim Brief podcast. In 2009 he was the first athletic coach to get an advanced degree in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania’s world renowned Masters in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) Program. He has spent the subsequent fifteen years putting that knowledge into practice and innovating the psychological process that athletes, coaches and teams use to be their best.
Mental health has become a topic of discussion around sports now more than ever. At his core, Chris is a coach, and he likes to spend time coaching all stakeholders in sports to communicate in a positive, proactive manner about their thoughts and feelings. His secret sauce is making mental health an opportunity rather than a problem
Chris believes swimming is the best sport in the world, because of the brilliant, determined and creative people that it attracts. If there’s one thing he has learned from them it’s this: “Fear is the easiest way to motivate yourself. Fear can always get you to take the next step; Hope is what allows you to expand how far you can go.”
