Shouts From The Stands: Fire In Water
Doing anything where your lungs can taste the freshness of air is effortless. Try doing what I do, but this time don’t breathe. I was 12-years-old when I joined the competitive swim club, Chattahoochee Gold.
Mental Health for Athletes: A Meditation for Self-Compassion
Athletes know how to be hard on themselves, but often don’t consider how self-compassion factors into their mental health…meditation helps athletes ease into the idea of self-compassion…
The Swim Parents We Don’t Want To Be
Most swim parents are amazing. They’re encouraging, helpful, and ready to volunteer wherever they’re needed. They are fun to be around and we all like having them in our circle of friends.
Practice + Pancakes: Longhorn Masters with Coach Whitney Hedgepeth (Video)
Before I visited Coach Whitney Hedgepeth, I would hear rumblings that Whitney ran the toughest practice in town if you’re a masters swimmer
Shouts From The Stands: I Don’t Care What Time You Go
One of the things I like to remind parents of age groupers is that swimming is a really tough sport. Pretend that you have to don a speedo, stand up on a platform in front of hundreds and hundreds of people you don’t know, dive into a cold pool and willfully hurt yourself.
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SwimSwam Pulse: 400 IM Narrowly Edges 200 FR As Fan Choice For Ledecky
The people have spoken, and Katie Ledecky will be swimming the 400 IM at this year’s NCAA Championships.
SwimSwam Pulse: 70% Say Dressel’s 200 IM Most Impressive Off-Event
7 out of every 10 voters picked Caeleb Dressel’s 1:40.61 200 IM as the most impressive off-event swim of the opening weekend of college invite season.
Chad le Clos: Exclusive SwimSwam Interview
“It was my redemption after losing in Rio. I said I would make no excuses and I wanted to win the gold one year later”
Beyond The Lane Lines: GOAT, Pellegrini, Sjostrom & The ‘Swim Reaper’
News on Michael Phelps, Federica Pellegrini, Sarah Sjostrom and more are found in this week’s Beyond the Lane Lines.
5 Reasons Why Swimming on a Small Club Team is Great
Swim teams come in all different shapes and sizes, and they are from many walks of life. Some are massive, having close to a thousand swimmers, and some are smaller. Here are 5 reasons why swimming on a small club team is great.
Why Isn’t My Swimmer Dropping Time?
“Why isn’t my child dropping as much time as so and so?” I hear that all the time—and I’ve felt those thoughts, too.
6 Things I’ve Learned as a Swim Parent
My kids started swimming with our club team when they were five and seven years old. Looking back, I am not the same swim parent that I was back then—and thank goodness for that!
Andrea Di Nino Exclusive Interview with SwimSwam – ADN Swim Project
Andrea Di Nino shares the “Di Nino” method with SwimSwam.
Why Butterfly should NOT be considered a short-axis stroke
A short-axis stroke is defined as a stroke where there is desirable rotation of the body along the short axis through the middle of the hip, as opposed to the long axis, along the length of the body.