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SwimSwam Podcast: Missy Franklin, Hayes Johnson Talk Swim Joy in Summer League

We sat down with swimming power couple Olympic Legend Missy Franklin and Hayes Johnson to talk about one simple thing. Swimming joy. 

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SwimSwam Podcast: Mitch Dalton Plays ‘Spill Your Guts or Tweet Your Guts’

We ended with a game based off ‘Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts’. We each ended up tweeting once, and I have to say, Mitch’s tweet was pretty golden:

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SwimSwam Podcast: Trevor Freeland on Pride Movie, Swimming as a Black Man

Freeland was a member of the famed PDR Swim Team of Philadelphia coached by Jim Ellis in the 1980s that was immortalized in the Lionsgate film Pride.

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SwimSwam Podcast: How Much is There to Learn About Perfect Technique?

We sat down with Russell Mark, the USA High-Performance Manager AKA Technique Guru, who was literally a rocket scientist before he was working in swimming

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SwimSwam Podcast: Meehan, Schemmel on Stanford Endowment, Training

Meehan and Schemmel explained what an endowment was, where theirs came from, and the impact it has on an athletics program. 

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SwimSwam Podcast: Tyler Fenwick on How UVA is Recruiting During Quarantine

Fenwick dives into the emphasis UVA has put on recruiting and how that’s changed since COVID. There has been more zoom calls and face-to-face interactions

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How Lenny Krayzelburg Attained Body Builder Status During 40-Hour Work Weeks

We sat down with Lenny Krayzelburg, the 4-time Olympic gold medalist who is known for being buff. Lenny’s story is one of the American Dream

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SwimSwam Podcast: How Easy is Going a 48 100m Free for Nathan Adrian?

We sat down with the 100 freestyle savant himself, Nathan Adrian, to talk about his perfect race and favorite 100 freestyles through the years

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SwimSwam Podcast: How did Jenny Thompson win 12 Olympic Medals?

Jenny was kind enough to sit down with us and talk through her career, the high and low points, and give us some insight on how her 12 medals were earned

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SwimSwam Podcast: Olympic Champion Tom Dolan Gives 400 IM Master Class

Dolan discusses the mechanics of IM, which his strategy was for beating his opponents, and what his surprisingly best stroke was. 

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How Texas, UVA, and Tulane prepped Katie Robinson to Lead Northwestern

Katie took us from humble roots in small-town Indiana and to the 2nd woman to lead a combined S&D program in a Power 5 conference

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SwimSwam Podcast: Reece Whitley explains The Only Real Way Change Will Come

This is one of many instances in which Reece has started sharing his experiences in an effort to educate the community as to what black athletes go through

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SwimSwam Podcast: Erica Sullivan on USC Decommittment, Writing a Film

Erica explained her decision to recommit, and isn’t ruling USC out, but rather is restarting her recruiting process with a clean slate

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SwimSwam Podcast: Mallory Comerford Breaks Down Journey to Becoming an Elite

Comerford describes her ups and downs along the way, including originally wanting to skip freshman year swimming to play volleyball

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SwimSwam Podcast: Black Swimmers Association on Ways to Make Swimming Inclusive

Both Ed and Danielle give insight as to how the aquatic community can make changes so that the BME community feels included and encouraged to participate

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