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2025 Sergio Lopez Winter Breaststroke Swim Camp – Sign Up Today

This camp will focus on perfecting all aspects of breaststroke including your streamline, body position, kick and pull.

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Book Excerpt: Trials, A Novel About Olympic Swimming Dreams and Redemption

Trials spent 4 weeks as the number one Kindle and “Book in the Swimming Category” on Amazon. Since its release it has garnered critical praise.

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Summer McIntosh Opens Up: World Records, The Ledecky Handshake, and Life Under Bob Bowman

Summer McIntosh opens up on world records, the illness that knocked her out of World Cup, training under Bowman, and what’s next for 2026.

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From UVA to Texas A&M: Blaire Anderson on Culture, Change, and Coaching in the SEC

Blaire Anderson opens up about her first year leading Texas A&M, her coaching philosophy, and building a new Aggie era.

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Podcast: Ben Brostoff, Author of “Trials: A Novel of Olympic Swimming Dreams and Redemption”

TRIALS follows three swimmers bound by one defining moment: the 2004 Olympic Trials, where all three shatter the 400 IM world record.

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Caeleb Dressel Opens Up About Coaching Changes, the New NCAA Format, and the Enhanced Games

Dressel goes in-depth on his coaching changes, Enhanced Games, the New NCAA Champs format, his real vertical leap, and what he can deadlift.

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2025 Ohio State Swimming Gold Medal Camps and Clinics – Sign Up Today

These clinics will provide each camper with the best opportunity to enhance their skills while focusing on the technical details of each stroke

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Coach Hurst on Mercersburg’s Storied Legacy And Why He Chose the Prep Path Over Division I

Mercersburg has produced 32 Olympians, who’ve earned 11 Olympic medals, including five golds, representing the U.S. and 12 other nations.

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NCAA Championships Overhaul: CSCAA Executive Director Barany Details Why The Changes Were Made

NCAA overhauls its Championships—CSCAA’s Samantha Barany joins SwimSwam to explain what’s changing, why it matters, and who it helps.

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Podcast: From Santa Cruz to Watsonville Coach Lucas Sallas-Cunha Expands Swimming Growth

Coach Lucas Sallas-Cunha got his Doctorate in Education to better understand the cultural barriers he faced in a Hispanic/Latino community.

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SwimSwam Podcast: Jeff Pease — 4 Decades of Building Champions at North Coast Aquatics

Jeff has helped place more than 250 swimmers in colleges and universities, and he’s coached more than 30 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifiers.

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Torri Huske Breaks Down Her 2025 Worlds: World Records, Medals, and a Coaching Change

Torri faces a lot of change. Meehan’s departure from Stanford to be USA Swimming’s National Team Director has ushered in Lindauer as head coach.

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Kaylee McKeown Details A Bumpy Road From Paris To World Championship Glory

Post-Paris, Kaylee struggled in training, so much so that she made the bold decision to return to her home club and reboot. That reset worked.

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Jack Alexy Breaks Down Paris Struggles And His 2025 World Championship Redemption

Today we dig into how Alexy processed Paris, his training, his sickness on the cusp of Worlds, and what it felt like to rewrite the record books.

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Do You Love Swimming? See 394 Swim Jobs You Might Love

If you don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in swimming. See over 394 Swim Jobs listed.

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