Three Modest Proposals to Improve Age Group Swimming
Swimming’s benefits include: teaching the value of goal-setting, and of learning to deal with both success and failure; learning to love exercise for its own sake and developing a life-long love of the water; exposing the children to one of the few sports where boys and girls train and compete together; and teaching them the value of teamwork.
Drop All Olympic Events Except Swimming, Men’s Marathon and Ping Pong
In a time where the Olympic movement seems to be falling apart from disease, corruption, doping, and every other imaginable flaw of sports, Charles Hartley envisions a different version of the Olympics, one where the focus is on just 3 Olympic events.
Shouts from the Stands: Goodbye Club Swimming
As August approaches and myself and other seniors time as club swimmers dwindles down I cannot help but look back and cherish the moments this part of my life has brought myself and so many more.
Aussie Paralympian Ahmed Kelly is ready to race in Rio
Aussie label Funky Trunks has signed Australian Paralympian Ahmed Kelly ahead of the Rio Paralympics.
6 Things I’d Do Over as a Swim Parent
Do you ever look back and think, I wish I could have done that differently?
Win With Dolphin Kick, The 5th Stroke
Coach Eddie Reese dedicates sets in each practice to improving the dolphin kick. It is no wonder that Texas had 6 out of 8 finalists in the men’s 100 yard fly at the NCAA Division 1 Championships this year.
10 Career Lessons You Learn from Competitive Swimming
#4 – You’ve learned how to win—and lose—with grace.
SwimMom Musings: The Invisible
Depression: the silent pain and feeling of hopelessness. It not only impacts swimmers but many other people as well. Sometimes it is even frowned upon by tough coaches who believe every athlete should suck it up and live with the pain.
10 (+1) Steps to Become an Olympian
#4 – Take responsibility for your skills.
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Lane 8 Fund Aims to Provide Swimming Foundation for Inner-City Youth
Since we last spoke with SwimSwam in 2014, we were three months into our mission of ‘Leveling the playing field for Cincinnati’s inner-city swimmers’.
Tribute to Third-Place Finishers at U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials
Does anyone really know what this feels like to finish third except others who have finished third in these Trials? Does anyone really know how frustrating and disheartening this is?
Why the Late Breath in Butterfly is Better
Two of the fastest butterflyers in the world today, Joseph Schooling of Singapore and Chad Le Clos of South Africa, have a delayed front breath, though they achieve it in slightly different ways.
25 x 50 Partners with FINIS
25 x 50 leverages new print technology and crowdfunding to print suits on-demand, an increasingly popular trend in the t-shirt industry and mainstream athletic apparel.
Fike Swim Launches THE SWAG Backpack
James Fike, CEO Fike Swim: “This is the bag I wish I had as an age grouper and collegiate swimmer. It’s everything we deserve but were never given, including the best fabric, zippers, stitching, and other components I could find.”
What Does It Mean to Let Your Child Take Ownership?
Here are a four questions to discover if we are giving ownership to our kids…
