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.
Fresh off the 2021 NCAA Championships, I’m joined by Cal Associate Head Coach Dani Korman. Dani talks about the team’s performance at the meet, as well as what obstacles Cal had to overcome to have a successful season.
Finally, we turn to some talk of recruiting and what Cal’s doing differently than some of its rivals. Enjoy:
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 I’m joined by Joel and Erik as we discuss the upcoming Men’s NCAA Championship. Then we pivot to explaining what the heck is going on in at University of Arizona.
Finally, we debut. a new segment “Explain Your Hate” where we all talk about the way we don’t like the way the concept of “Early Vertical Forearm” has made it’s way into swimming:
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:
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?
Hi, this week on the podcast I decided fresh off a meet to go through how I set up my practices. I go into the history of why I had a strong bias towards race pace training way back to my own swimming career, and why I now run practice in what I would consider “high volume”:
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 on the Swim Brief I am going solo to talk about a few topics that are front of mind for me at this moment.
I talk about the lack of movement within college coaching ranks due to the pandemic. Then I turn to say “tilykke” to great Danish American swim coach Lars Jorgensen, before pivoting to naming the all-time Danish-American team.
Finally, I discuss the chances for David Curtiss to make the US Olympic Team: