This week with Joel and Erik we get into the article about Jeremy Kipp purportedly kicking a water bottle into a USC Swimmer. We follow that with the wild Brazilian Olympic 4x100 relay selection, before using this article as a jumping off for touching on the red hot third rail of sports and politics.
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?
Jeff Poppell's Contract, Jack Flanagan and the Panic-O-meter
Today with Erik and Joel we break down Jeff Poppell’s big contract to coach the University of South Carolina. Then we discuss the story of a kid going from high school swimmer to Tennessee commit in just two years. Finally, after promising not to, I officially hit the panic button on the 2021 US Olympic Team.
Gary Taylor Out at Auburn
This week I address Gary Taylor no longer coaching at Auburn, and the articles and comments left in their wake. At the end I grade SwimSwam’s article about who will take over for Gary.
Poppell and Nesty. Mission Viejo and Practice Excuses. Plus: Brent Rutemiller is a Coward
This week Erik and Joel drop in to discuss the recent coaching moves within the SEC. We then go over some highlights of the Mission Viejo meet. Finally, we talk about the top reasons we’ve heard to get out of swimming at practice.
Listen to the end where I address the pathetic way Swimming World covered the departure of Garrett McCaffrey from Phoenix Swim Club.
The Return of Matt Leach
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.
Nikki Kett Steps Away, Self Care and WORKOUTS!
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:
Erik’s Workout:
Joel’s set:
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
My Workout:
Calling out Brett Hawke, NCAA Mental Health and More
Brett Hawke says that Texas’ 26 NCAA qualifiers with 9.9 scholarships is a riddle, but doesn’t he know the answer? Why were NCAA interviews by Bobby Finke and Shaine Casas so awesome? What is ipsedixitism?
That and more questions answered on this week’s podcast with Joel and Erik:
Signe Bro
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:
Eddie Reese Retiring: Emergency Pod
You read the title, you know what it is about!