Can We Build A Better College Meet Schedule?
As a collegiate distance swimmer, I had plenty of things to gripe about to my mid-distance counterparts: more monotonous workouts, a shorter taper timeline, and a distinct lack of yoga during morning practices.
How Much Does Taper Matter?
Taper: one of the few words in the English language that trumps an all-you-can-eat buffet to set a swimmer’s heart aflutter. Swimmers have their own taper superstitions and rituals.
How Much Faster Do Swimmers Get In College?
One of the most fundamental aspects of a swimmer’s season is improvement – only one swimmer can win Olympic gold in each event, but every swimmer has the opportunity to measure success or not against their own best times.
Former Texas Swimmer, 1980 Olympic Hopeful Gives TED Talk
Lidia Yuknavitch, an elite swimmer turned writer, discusses the importance and beauty of reinventing oneself after failure.
Ledecky’s Rio Goals 3 Years Out: 3:56, 8:05 and Win 200 Free (VIDEO)
USA Swimming continues to profile some of the stars of the 2016 Olympics, this week posting a video highlighting Katie Ledecky. Of note: Ledecky recounts her Rio goals from three years earlier – and no surprise, she nailed all three.
3 Things Swim Parents Can and Cannot Control
We’re our children’s major role models, and they learn from us how to act when things don’t go well.
LeBron James Gives Post-Dunk Nod To Michael Phelps
LeBron James of Phelps, “Just recognizing greatness, that’s all that’s about.”
9 Signs You Have a Swimmer’s Body
There are a ton of benefits for choosing swimming as your sport of choice, but probably none that serves our vanity quite as much as having a swimmer’s body.
11 Team Traditions I’m Thankful for as a Swim Parent
Here are 11 team traditions that made swimming fun and kept my kids excited about the sport…
Jerome Smith Doesn’t Let Heart Problems Stop Him From Swimming
After suffering a heart attack six years ago, Jerome Smith’s heart only pumps at 34 percent of a healthy one. But that hasn’t kept the 73-year-old from blasting away at SCAQ Masters swim workouts. And now he plans to compete in his first swim meet in 15 years.
Three Vermont Athletes Injured During Ft. Lauderdale Airport Shooting
Though reports yesterday indicated no swimmers were among the five killed and six wounded in a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport yesterday, the University of Vermont reports three of its swimmers were injured in the “chaotic evacuation” from the terminal, one with a broken foot.
Hey Swimmers: Here’s How to Actually Keep Your Resolutions This Year
It’s 2017. Crazy! Here is how to actually keep the resolutions that you set for yourself this year.
VIDEO: Rio Moment To Savor – Cody Miller
USA Swimming published a short interview with Olympic bronze medalist Cody Miller about his Rio swim. The video also includes Miller’s IU teammate Lilly King, who won gold in the women’s version of the 100 breast.
VIDEO: The Most Underrated Sport
SwimSwam reader and Utah swimming commit Felix Chiun passed along this video he made about his sport, entitled “The Most Underrated Sport.” Chiun talks about swimming’s role outside of the Olympics, where the sport tends to gain international acclaim, only to drop back into the shadows in the three years in between.
SwimSwam Pulse: 56.2% Support Age-Based Tech Suit Ban
Votes were very split on this issue, with just 62 more votes favoring bans than opposing them.
