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A Look and Breakdown Of the Legendary 100 x 100s Set Of Mike Bruner About eight months before he set a world record in the 200-meter butterfly (1:59.23) and won a second gold medal in the 800 freestyle relay at the 1976 Olympics, Mike Bruner completed an aquatic first - swimming 10,000 yards in unde...

Special Sets: A Look At the Training Of Andrew Vanas At Nation's Capital One of the delights in the coaching business is watching a swimmer come of age. Dory Halbe, a former American University swimmer and NCAA qualifier, is now an assistant coach at Nation’s Capital Swim Club’s Georgetown Prep site...

Another Choice: The Case For Division III Swimming (Part II) Last month, in the first of two installments, college coaches weighed in on the benefits of NCAA D-III swimming (524 teams at last count) and the realities of finding an aquatic home in college. In Part II, we share the thoughts of Don Hei...

A Q&A With Former Breaststroke Star and Now Standout Coach Michael Norment Pursuing excellence can be a lonely task. For young lad, future CSCAA All-American, professional swimmer and world champion coach, Michael Norment, that meant leaving home at age 12. He, Olympian/world champion Nic Fink and t...

How They Train Nic Fink: A Look At the Work Of the American Breaststroke Star A graduate of The Pingry School and the University of Georgia (2015), 6-3 Nic Fink has spent the last seven years traversing a less traveled road. A 15-time CSCAA All-American and twice an NCAA runnerup in the 100 breastst...

Q&A With Ian Murray, Highly Successful Coach At Dynamo Swim Club Life is good when one of your former swimmers (National Team member Brooks Curry) wins an Olympic gold medal one year and takes the NCAA 50 and 100 yard freestyle titles the next. Another of Ian Murray’s swimmers currently holds three ...

How They Train: A Look At Brooks Curry and Ian Grum At Dynamo Swim Club Before Brooks Curry and Ian Grum became standouts at LSU and Georgia, respectively, they rose up the ranks as members of the Dynamo Swim Club, where Ian Murray oversaw their training. Here is a look at the work logged by Curry a...

Special Sets: The Training of Texas Recruit and Carmel High Standout Berit Berglund Berit Berglund, the top-ranked girls’ high school swimmer in Indiana (19th nationally), swims for Coach Chris Plumb’s Carmel Swim Club—a place of “hard work, support, change and belief.” What a life! During the last ...

An Excellent Choice: The Case For Division III Swimming (Part I) In the first of two installments, college coaches discuss recruiting and the realities of finding an aquatic home on one of the nation’s 524 NCAA Division III teams. In September, Jason Weber began his 17th year as head men’s and women...

Special Sets: Revisiting the Spectacular Days of Age-Group Legend Chas Morton Time is an evil mistress, especially when related to advancing maturity and/or milliseconds in a competitive endeavor. Consider this: Of today’s 186 individual national age group records, only seven are older than the 1983...

How They Train: The Work of Olympic Medalist Emma Weyant (Sample Sets Included) By any measure, Emma Weyant, under the tutelage of her Sarasota Sharks coach Brent Arckey, has had a whale of a run. Leading up to her silver-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in the 400-meter individual me...

In the How They Train segment of the June issue of Swimming World Magazine, the training of Piper Enge is explored. Enge is a rising breaststroke star out of Mercer Island High School in Washington. Mercer Island (Wash.) High School has an impressive aquatic heritage, boasting 23 boys’ and girls’ st...

Oftentimes, the best gift a coach can give an athlete is the skill to succeed later on. And when the athlete builds on those basics through a work ethic of application, grit, talent and determination, the results can be affirming—for coach and athlete—and even life changing, as is the case with Coac...

A Q&A With Sierra Marlins Coach Tim McCormick A swimmer since age 4 and now a coach, Tim McCormick is continuing to find success with his USA Swimming Gold Medal club, Sierra Marlins, located in Northern California. • California State University, Chico, 1987-91 • California State University, Bakersf...

How They Train: The Sets Of Sierra Marlins Brady Calkins and Erica Jaffe As have so many other high schoolers, two Sierra Marlins swimmers have used their USA Swimming training to excel on the age group and scholastic stages. Brady Calkins and Erica Jaffe, high school Class of 2025, are both ranked ...

Reverse Periodization (Part II): Premier Coaches Weigh In On Non-Traditional Training Method Previously, Swimming World examined reverse periodization from an intellectual perspective. Here, some of America’s most recognized club and college coaches share their views on training with this untraditio...

Special Sets: The Swim Training of Crile Hart, Kenyon's Two-Time Division III Swimmer of the Year This month’s “Special Sets” focuses on two-time NCAA Division III Swimmer of the Year Crile Hart of Kenyon College, which won this year’s team championships. Sample practices are provided by Coach Jesse...

Q&A With MIT Coach Meghan Sisson French As the fifth female head swim and dive coach since 1997, Meghan Sisson French is continuing MIT’s winning aquatic tradition. • Springfield College (Mass.), B.S., applied sociology, 2012; MSW, 2015 • 4x member of Springfield team; NEWMAC champions, 2009, 2010 •...

Coach Ben Titley on Periodization Training (Part II in Series) Ben Titley is a disciple of Bill Sweetenham’s theories on periodization. In 2021, as head coach of the High Performance Center-Ontario, he worked closely with Penny Oleksiak and 10 other Canadian Olympians. For his efforts, he was named ...

How They Train: The Workouts of MIT Standout Adam Janicki A 2019 graduate of George Mason High School in Falls Church, Va., 6-5 Adam Janicki helped lead his Mustangs to the VHSL Class 2 state title. In the process, he set two individual state records in winning the 200 yard IM (1:51.64) and 100 back...