Articles by Garrett McCaffrey

Chris Jones on Developing Olympic Student-Athletes at University of Edinburgh

Chris started the program in 2008 and since then they’ve put a ton of athletes on international teams, including 5 Olympians.

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Mike Stephens Describes Why Hawaii is One of the Best Jobs in the Country

Mike Stephens was recently named the Head Coach at the University of Hawaii and joined us on the SwimSwam podcast to talk about it

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Kirk Grand on Being Named USA Swimming’s Nat’l Team High Performance Specialist

Kirk Grand will be working with the national teams and as many USA Swimming coaches and swimmers as possible as a resource.

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Chase Kreitler on His Vision for Pitt, Learning From Eddie Reese & Dave Durden

Chase Kreitler has had an amazing 2022 – His Cal team won NCAAs, he and his wife welcomed their first child, and he was named the new Head Coach at Pitt

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Bill Dorenkott Describes Training Sets for Hunter Armstrong, Charlie Clark

Dorenkott put two guys on the team, one of whom set a world record, and was named to the coaching staff of Team USA for this summer’s World Championships

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Stanford’s Tracy Slusser on Her Approach to Aerobic, Threshold, and Speed Work

Swimswam chatted with Stanford Tracy Slusser about a month after NCAAs to look back on the season and look forward to spring and summer ’22.

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Tulane Head Leah Stancil on Coaching Through Cancer, Pandemic, and Hurricanes

In the last 3 years Stancil and the Tulane program have succeeded through cancer, a pandemic, and a hurricane. Their resiliency comes from their leader

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Associate Head Coach Tyler Fenwick Shares UVA Sets Leading into NCAAs

SwimSwam caught up with Tyler Fenwick, Associate Head Coach at University of Virginia, the week before the UVA Women defend their NCAA title in Atlanta, GA

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Associate Head Stefanie Moreno Breaks Down Georgia Double-Taper

Stefanie Moreno, the Associate Head Coach of Georgia, joins the us in the middle of the Bulldog’s championship season to dive deep into double taper

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NC State’s Braden Holloway Talks Sprint Training, Taper Strategies

We dove into sprint specific topics including taper strategies, which are tricky to balance for his team heading into conference.

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Tanica Jamison Discusses her 1st Season as Houston Head Coach, Swimming History

In this podcast, Tanica discussed how she is establishing herself with a new program after almost 10 years with one of the most stable programs at Texas A&M

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PEAK Swimming Head Coach & Owner Abi Liu on Reaching Swimmers Through the Soles

You may have noticed Abi and her styling kicks on deck. In this podcast, Abi talks about her shoe collection and how it’s become a coaching tool. 

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Dan Flack on Coaching Club vs College, Wisdom Learned Through Both

Flack was on staff at multiple colleges while coaching for the associated club team and was able to gain lots of wisdom from being around so many coaches

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ASU Assistant Herbie Behm Breaks Down How Entire Team Handled Red-Shirt Year

Behm said it went quite smoothly, getting a long block to focus on both long course and putting good work in during training heading into Olympic Trials.

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Ned Skinner Explains Move to Virginia Gators as Head Coach

The Virginia Gators of Roanoke, Virginia, have announced that they have hired former VT head Ned Skinner as the new head coach

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