Beyond the Pancakes

2020 Women’s ACC Championships: Mark Gangloff Talks First Season at UNC (Video)

Now at his first ACC Championships as the Tarheels coach, Gangloff took a minute to talk to SwimSwam about his first season at UNC.

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Beyond the Pancakes: Building a “Total Development” Team Culture

Jorgensen puts a heavy emphasis on a “total development” culture, focusing on building his team as athletes, students, and overall people

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Beyond the Pancakes: A Different Take on the “Club Team Mentality”

perhaps the most novel thing we witnessed was head coach Adam Depmore’s philosophy on how to run his team: Safe and Scalable Fun. 

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Beyond the Pancakes: How Queens University Won Mens/Women’s Titles in 5 Years

When SwimSwam went to visit Queens University, we sat down with head coach Jeff Dugdale to speak with him about Queens’ success since his arrival in 2011

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Beyond the Pancakes: Braden Holloway on NC State Recruiting

When SwimSwam was in Raleigh shooting Practice + Pancakes with NC State, we also sat down with Braden Holloway to speak about recruiting at the college level

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Beyond the Pancakes: Mark Gangloff on Establishing Culture as a New Head Coach

SwimSwam sat down with head coach Mark Gangloff to talk with him about his goals for his first season in North Carolina.

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Beyond the Pancakes: Sergio Lopez Shares How he Coaches Technique

When SwimSwam visited Virginia Tech for Practice + Pancakes, we sat down with Sergio Lopez to see how he approaches working on technique with swimmers

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Beyond the Pancakes: Can we find Kinetic Energy that’s already there?

before the arrival of Usain Bolt in the 100m and 200m dash, running had hit sort of a wall where sprinters weren’t getting much faster

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Beyond the Pancakes: Jonty Skinner Defines Velocity for Swimming

Jonty Skinner is always concocting some new formula to think differently about swimming. If you haven’t heard his talk on Hydro Freestyle, check it out here.

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Beyond the Pancakes: Mizzou will Suit Up for Every Meet Moving Forward

Grevers broke down the 4 pillars of change he will be implementing that he thinks will make Mizzou stand out as a trail blazer among swimming schools.

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Beyond the Pancakes: How Indiana Post Grads Train in the Weight Room (Video)

There are hundreds of philosophies on how to optimally train a swimmer in the pool. There might be more theories on how best to train them outside the pool.

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Beyond the Pancakes: How Does Todd DeSorbo Train Sprinters?

Training sprinters to be as fast as they possibly can comes in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and philosophies. For UVA head coach Todd DeSorbo, it means going as fast as you can. All the time. 

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Beyond the Pancakes: Jonty Skinner On “Hydro” Freestyle Technique

Skinner calls the ideal freestyle technique “hydro freestyle”, and it is based on the idea of vaulting yourself over the water rather than pulling yourself through it

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Beyond the Pancakes: Matt Kredich on How to Teach Athletes

Matt Kredich is as much a student of swimming as he is a teacher

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Beyond The Pancakes: Mizzou Strength Coach on How to Train Swimmers

Joe comes from a power lifting background, and never swam competitively, giving him a unique perspective that many might think would hinder his coaching abilities with swimmers, but only seems to be improving them

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