The Best Swim Dad of All Time
“My dad is better than your dad” has instigated playground fights since Woolly Mammoths roamed playscapes. By calling my dad “the best swim dad of all time,” I don’t mean to pick a fight: I am simply celebrating my own father with a superlative.
#SwimMomMonday: A Conversation with Debra Gemmell
Debra Gemmell with her son Andrew at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
5 Things This Club Swimming Mom Will Miss
Why don’t you put the kids on the swim team? It was 13 years ago when a parent from my summer pool club said these words to me. Those 10 words altered the course of my family’s lives for the next 13 years – in a very good way.
8 Swim Moms Tips to Survive & Soar
Swim Mom Donna Hale: “We always hear about what it’s like to be the mom of a Michael Phelps or a Missy Franklin. Truth is most of us mommies travel through this process with ordinary kids with extraordinary passion.”
Shout From the Stands: A Letter to my Child’s Swim Coach
“Please strive everyday to be the coach you wish you would have had or the coach you hope for your child. No matter how long you have been coaching, no matter how much you may know, it can always help to consciously remember THIS IS SOMEONE’S CHILD.”
Shouts from the Stands: From a swim mom to a swimmer
SwimSwam welcomes reader submissions about all topics aquatic, and if it’s well-written and well-thought, we might just post it under…
Confessions of a Swim Mom: I Missed my Swimmer’s Event
If you are a swim parent for any duration of time, you will eventually feel the guilty sting of accidentally missing your child’s event.
How to Feed An American Swimmer in Paris
“By the time we boarded the plane for France, we were feeling pretty confident that all details had been handled. But we were wrong. We had overlooked an essential aspect of traveling with SwimBoy. Caloric intake.”
10 Ways You Know You’re a Swim Mom
#4 – You save “vacation days” at work to use for travel to out-of-town meets.
Dear Patty: A Tribute To A SwimSwam Swim Mom
Happy Mother’s Day to Patty Carroll, the mother of one of our writers, and all the other swim moms that have impacted our lives!
12 Letters on Why My Swim Mom is the Best – A Mother’s Day Thank You
We asked readers to send in “Why My Swim Mom Is The Best” and received 100s of submissions. Many thanks for taking the time to submit. We included 12 letters. The 1st in this list is our winner, Emily E Fogle. (Featured Image: Emily and her Swim Mom)
Tell Us Why Your Swim Mom Is The Best For Mother’s Day
Tell us “why your swim mom is the best” and we’ll post the top three on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11th. (We’ll accept submissions through Saturday morning May 10th, 9am CST.)
Sports Studs Make Swimming Fun For Kids
Are you looking for a creative, fun way to identify, personalize, and decorate a swimmer’s gear? If so, Sports Studs is the ideal choice!
The ACC Swimming and Diving Parents Photo Vault
Swimming Photo Machine, Tim Binning, captures swim parents at the 2013 ACC Swimming and Diving Championships (theswimpictures)
Ryan Lochte Signs with New Representation at CAA, Creative Artist Agency
Swim News: “At CAA, Lochte will be handled by a team of agents headed by Lowell Taub. “(Swim Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures)
