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Making Swim Meets Better

Julie Bachman and John Bradley join to discuss a proposal that fell flat at USA Swimming for short, low official count meets for 14 and under swimmers. We discuss why it’s important to innovate in the swim meet space and find a way to bring new swimmers to the sport.

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Relationship Between Training and Performance

This week, I take some time to reflect after a meet weekend on the relationship between training and performance. What does it mean to create a training effect? How do you make sure your training is holistic? Finally, how can and should you evaluate performance?

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Joel and Erik: NCAA Men 1 Event, Women Wrap up and Recruiting

Joel and Erik are here once again for the Thursday pod where we talk NCAA swimming. We start by giving our snapshot analysis of the men’s meet, and then look back at the women’s meet the week before.

Finally, we discuss the morality of how much pressure is appropriate to put on kids at 16-17 years old in the recruiting process.

Joel and Erik: Women's NCAA Predictions and Second Guessing Bob Bowman

Today on the Swim Brief we make our official NCAA Women’s meet predictions. Surprise, there was a lot of buzz about Virginia.

Before that, we revisited Bob Bowman’s decision to redshirt his entire ASU team: was it a good move or did his competitors get a leg up by going ahead this year?

News: Sjoestrom, Meet Cancellation, Costs of Swimming

Today on the podcast I am joined by Joel Rollings and Erik Wiken to discuss the news. We talk about the recent news that Sarah Sjoestrom broke her arm, the cancellation of multiple college national championship meets.

Finally, we talk about the cost of club swimming and drinking coffee.


Matt Crispino

This week on the podcast I am joined by the Head Coach of Men's Swimming and Diving at Princeton University Matt Crispino. We talk about his time both as a swimmer and a coach at William and Mary, the fight to bring that program back, and his decision to step into a leadership position at Princeton.

We also discuss coaching trees and stick around for the end where I unveil my most devious lightning round yet.

News: Olympic Trials, NCAAs and Austin Surhoff

This week on the news, Joel Rollings and Erik Wiken join once again to talk through the biggest stories of the week.

We talk about the announcement of a split Olympic Trials, and the implications for swimmers, coaches and clubs.

Then we turn to Greg Earhart’s letter about the possibility of an NCAA championship at the end of the year.

Finally, we discuss Austin Surhoff’s recent podcast where he talks about the 45 minute workouts that have propelled him to lifetime bests in the 50 and 100 free:

Swim Brief: Paul Donovan

This week on the podcast I talk to my boss Paul Donovan. A lot of people have been asking about this interview and I think if you like this podcast, you're really going to like this one.

We talk about some of the reasons he's gone beyond Ireland to pursue coaching, as well as some nitty gritty about season and workout planning. Finally, stick around for the lightning round at the end where we compare Irish and Danish soccer players.

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