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SSPC: Phoebe Bacon Breaks Down What Gains You Get From Training in a 15yd Pool

Bacon detailed training at her new home in Wisconsin is like and how she got through quarantine, documenting her time training in a 15-year pool. 

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How Swimming Helped Matt Mauser After Losing Wife in Crash with Kobe Bryant

Mauser discusses losing his wife and enduring a pandemic while trying to move through his career as well as raise and teach 3 children (ages 12, 10, and 4)

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If you don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in the swimming community and be a part of our swimming family! Go here to see 2930 Swim Jobs.

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SSPC: Marathon Swimmer Catherine Breed Details Racing 20+ Mile Ocean Swims

Breed describes her training as well as some of her stories about swimming through jellyfish, in the dark, and in the same waters as sharks.

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SSPC: Elijah Winnington Explains Moving Programs to Train More Distance

He explains how moving to a new program has helped him reignite his swimming as well as why he needed more distance in his training overall.

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SSPC: Swimmer Matthew Marquardt Cycling Across the US to Raise Money for Cancer

Matthew is riding to raise money for pediatric cancer treatment through St. Jude. His goal is to raise $23,000 over the course of his ride, $1000/day.

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SSPC: Claire Adams on Processing the Loss of her Olympic Dream

Adams sifts through the huge loss breaking her hand and missing the 2016 Olympic team was in her life and what it took to bounce back from that.

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SSPC: Kaylee Mckeown Describes 21-Day Training Blocks with 17-on, 4-Off

McKeown re-wrote half of the Australian backstroke record book last year, setting records in the 100 and 200 backs long course and the 200 back short course

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SSPC: Baylor Nelson Breaks Down Super-Competitive North Carolina Swim Scene

Nelson has had some phenomenal swims recently, most notably his epic battles with fellow North Carolina-native Sam Hoover in the 400 IM and 200 IM.

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SSPC: Maxime Rooney on Competing at a High Level Under Pressure

Rooney talks about racing under pressure, a topic in which he references an interview with James Guy about the dominance of his British teammate, Adam peaty.

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SSPC: Claudio Battaglini on the Benefits of Staying with One Coach

Claudio has been a coach of elite athletes for decades, originally training the world’s top triathletes in his home of Brazil.

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SSPC: How Kate Douglass’ Club Coach Wanted to Change How Club Swimmers Train

Carle has had successful age swimmers at young ages, including current Virginia super-star Kate Douglass and breakout 13-year-old Claire Weinstein.

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SSPC: James Magnussen Explains What Went Wrong at the 2012 London Olympics

Maggie admits that his legendry 47.10 100 free at the 2012 Olympic trials swim hid some of the doubts he had at the time about his Olympic prep

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