Jason Calanog

South Carolina Hires Jason Calanog As Men’s Associate Head Coach

Calanog and Poppell (right side of the picture) both spent time at The Bolles School earlier in their coaching careers.

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Sydney Pickrem’s Coach Explains Her Paradoxical Improvements in the 200 IM

Sydney Pickrem qualified for the Canadian Olympic Team with a big best time in the 200 IM. She had a dynamite split on the breaststroke leg, but paradoxically, it wasn’t really the breaststroke improvements that made that happen.

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Maggie MacNeil Calls On Swimming Canada To Bring Coach Rick Bishop To Paris

MacNeil is hoping Swimming Canada will make the same exception it made for Brent Arckey, Summer McIntosh’s American coach, at last year’s World Championships.

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Blast From The Past: 1988 National Invitational Dual-Meet Championships

Texas A&M head coach Jason Calanog shared results from the bracket-style 1988 National Invitational Dual-Meet Championships on social media this week.

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Wild Speculation: Who Will Take Over For Vic Riggs At West Virginia?

Who will lead West Virginia next season as Vic Riggs resigned after 17 years? See the wild speculation here.

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Wild Speculation: Who Will Take Over For Steve Bultman With The Texas A&M Women?

The Texas A&M women’s head coaching job is open for the first time in 25 years. Would Tanica Jamison return to College Station for the job?

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Texas A&M Men Add Another Assistant Coach, Michael Walker

Michael Walker, who has lots of professional connections with Texas A&M associate head coach Jason Calanog, is joining the Aggies’ staff next season.

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Baylor Nelson Only Made the 200 Free Nationals Cut Last Week…Now He’s In The ‘A Final

Baylor Nelson qualified for the men’s 200 free at US World Trials just last week, swimming the event in prelims on his birthday.

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WILD SPECULATION: Who Will Cal Hire to Fill Associate Head Coach Role?

Who is Cal going to hire to replace Matt Bowe after he got the head coaching job at the University of Michigan? Coach Durden, we’ve got a few ideas for you.

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French National Record Holder Beryl Gastaldello Returns to France to Train

French National record holder Beryl Gastaldello has announced via Instagram that she has moved back to France after spending the last 8 years in the U.S.

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Shaine Casas Is Officially Headed to Austin to Join Longhorn Post-Grad Group

After several false starts, three-time NCAA Champion Shaine Casas says he has finalized details of his plan to begin training under Eddie Reese in Austin.

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McKenna DeBever And Joaquin Vargas Named To Peruvian Olympic Swim Team

DeBever will race the 200 IM while Vargas will enter in the 400 freestyle for Peru at the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: Le Clos Shows Off His New Slippers

We’re back this week with swimming’s TopTenTweets presented by Arena, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: Jason Calanog In Early Lead For NCAA Style Icon Award

We’re back this week with swimming’s TopTenTweets presented by Arena, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.

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SwimSwam Podcast: Brett Pinfold on Getting Back Into Shape After Retiring

He also delves into what growing up in Houston Swimming, particularly on the same club team as Simone Manuel, was like. 

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