Hot off a season where he coached the program’s first ever PAC-12 Champion, I talk to Washington State Swimming Head Coach Matt Leach.
We cover the ups and downs of the finished season, how someone goes from 23.5 to 22.1 in the 50 free in college. We also talk about quality of life in coaching and some of the recent movement around the coaching landscape.
In this one, we address the decision by Nikki Kett to leave coaching at the University of Michigan before turning to our own suggestions for taking care of yourself in a coaching career.
Stick around for the end where we go through the following workouts:
Whitewater Pain Train
16 x 100 on 1:05.
Four in a lane. 1st person leaves on 60 second and third five a part
Four stays on side.
On the next 60 1st person dives in, the original leader is now second leaving on the interval (:05) 2nd person goes on :10, third is :15 and last person hops out.
Keeps repeating. Interval can change to whatever - math gets harder on those
So more people in a lane less breaks
Signe Bro is a swimmer who has made an Olympic qualifying standard for Denmark and hopes to compete in Tokyo 2021.
We talk about the role her parents have played for her over her career as well as some of the ways she has learned to handle with nerves at big meets. We also talk about how she's learned to deal with more people giving her opinions on what she should do as she rises in the ranks, and pro swimming in the ISL:
This week on the Swim Brief I’m joined by Joel and Erik to react to one event of the Women’s NCAA Division 1 Championship.
We then turn to the story of a swimmer transferring from D1 Arkansas to D3 Hendrix College, before giving our thoughts on James Fike crushing personal bests in his late 30s.
This week I wanted to take state of a couple of really important topics in Positive Psychology and where we are the moment.
Things have been rough for a lot of us. That has necessitated a lot of pessimism to grind through some of the worst parts of the last year. Right now, however, is a big opportunity to start to turn some of that boat around ourselves:
This week on the podcast I’m joined by Jamie Fowler. Jamie is the host of the wonderful podcast “The Poolside Pass” where he has interviewed many of the biggest names in coaching.
We discuss key insights from his interviews with Eddie Reese and Teri McKeever, as well as his most recent podcast with USRPT guru Brent Rushall:
This week I’m joined by Joel and Erik to about the ongoing college conference meets, as well as the changes to the upcoming NCAA Division 1 Championships meet.
This week to do the news I’m joined by my friends Erik Wiken and Joel Rollings to bring our group text to life. We talk TYR Pro Series, Swimswam’s coverage of a swimmer leaving Auburn, and what Masters swimmers can learn from the great Tom Brady:
Garrett McCaffrey joins for the second series. We talk covid, cookies and cream and wrestle with the consequences of having a disgraced mentor:
Happy holidays, enjoy this podcast with Hannah Burandt. Hannah and I met last year, and since i’ve become a huge fan of what she’s doing. We talk about her journey to becoming the head coach of Cleveland State University, who mentored her and how along the way, and how she learned that too much was good enough: