Podcasts

SSPC: Matthew Marquardt on What He Gained From Riding Across America

Matthew goes into details of where the hardest struggles came, how his diet changed, and being too sore to even sleep some nights.

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SSPC: Siobhan Haughey on Establishing a Pre-Race Routine that Works for You

Haughey explains what has been clicking for her in training and racing this past year as well as how establishing daily routines in ISL was key for her

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Winning Life’s Gold Medal: Ten Valuable Life lessons from the Olympic Games

Olympic icon Gary Hall Sr. makes me feel lazy—in the most positive way. He is a reminder of how to live your life daily with purpose.

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SSPC: Rutgers Coach Maccoll Explains Redshirting Significant portion of Team

Because things are ever-changing in the COVID-19 pandemic, every athlete’s situation is different and the decision to redshirt this season is fluid

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SSPC: Leah Smith Details Solo Training with Matt Grevers, ISL, and Coffee Hobby

Leah was planning on attending the meet in Irvine, but as that one was canceled she opted to stay home and train instead of risking travel

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SSPC: How Going 47’s in the 100m Freestyle Became Routine for James Magnussen

Magnussen describes his plan for racing as much as he could in 2013-14 and how he came to casually drop in-season 47s seemingly every time he hit the pool. 

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Depression & Anxiety TOOLKIT for Athletes Launched by Champion’s Mojo

Champion’s Mojo hosts Kelly Palace & Maria Parker have launched the interactive toolkit with resources from experts in dealing with depression and anxiety.

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SSPC: John Moffet on Getting Injured as a Gold Medal Favorite at the Olympics

After breaking the 100 breast world record at Olympic Trials, Moffet suffered an injury in the Olympic prelims a few strokes after his breakout

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SSPC: Jade Hannah on Maturing Through Training at HPC – Ontario

Jade Hannah describes what swimming consistently with the likes of Penny Oleksiak, Kylie Masse, and more has done for her maturity as an athlete.

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SSPC: Matt Wilson Explains The Work He’s Doing to Recapture the 200 Breast WR

Wilson paces 30.lows in training consistently, indicating that we could see Anton Chupkov’s 2:06.1 WR from 2019 go down come Tokyo. 

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SSPC: Ema Rajic Talks Cal Records, Training in Austin and Representing Croatia

Rajic throws some wisdom in about how swimming can be a lonely sport. She takes the approach of looking up to and making friends with her competitors

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SSPC: Top-20 Ranked Recruit Matt Fallon Explains 1:52 200 Breast in Belton, TX

Fallon explained how he’s been training through COVID and why he likes warming up all the way until 1-2 minutes before he races at meets.

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SSPC: Phoebe Bacon Breaks Down What Gains You Get From Training in a 15yd Pool

Bacon detailed training at her new home in Wisconsin is like and how she got through quarantine, documenting her time training in a 15-year pool. 

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How Swimming Helped Matt Mauser After Losing Wife in Crash with Kobe Bryant

Mauser discusses losing his wife and enduring a pandemic while trying to move through his career as well as raise and teach 3 children (ages 12, 10, and 4)

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SSPC: Ray Looze Breaks Down his New Training Focus at Indiana – Proprioception

Ray’s team are like an Aquatic Research & Development department innovating in eye-popping ways for this delve into mind-body connection

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