Michael Stott - (Author)

In the How They Train segement 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. Get Swimming World Magazine and Swimming World Biweekly FREE When You Become A Member of the Interna...

From the June issue of Swimming World Magazine, Michael Stott looks back at some of the favorite sets by Annie Grevers (nee Chandler) while she was a standout at the University of Arizona. Get Swimming World Magazine and Swimming World Biweekly FREE When You Become A Member of the International Swim...

In the May issue of Swimming World Magazine, longtime contributor Michael Stott chatted with Carle Fierro of the Westchester Aquatic Club. Get Swimming World Magazine and Swimming World Biweekly FREE When You Become A Member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame New! 30 Day Membership to ISHOF ...

In the May issue of Swimming World Magazine, Michael Stott featured Westchester Aquatic Club coach Carle Fierro. As part of his feature, he looked at the work Fierro did from 2009-2017 with Kate Douglass, now an Olympic bronze medalist in the 200-meter individual medley. Get Swimming World Magazine ...

In the May issue of Swimming World Magazine, Michael Stott featured Westchester Aquatic Club coach Carle Fierro, who mentored Claire Weinstein as a youth. Here is a look at the work of Fierro with Weinstein, who now trains with Sandpipers of Nevada and recently qualified for the World Championships....

In the April issue of Swimming World Magazine, Michael Stott presents the second part of his look at problematic teammates, and how coaches can improve poor or disruptive behavior. Get Swimming World Magazine and Swimming World Biweekly FREE When You Become A Member of the International Swimming Hal...

From the April issue of Swimming World Magazine, Michael Stott chatted with coach Norm Wright about the training approach used with distance standout Claire Dafoe. Get Swimming World Magazine and Swimming World Biweekly FREE When You Become A Member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame New! 30...

In the April issue of Swimming World Magazine, longtime contributor Michael Stott chatted with Norm Wright of NOVA of Virginia. Get Swimming World Magazine and Swimming World Biweekly FREE When You Become A Member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame New! 30 Day Membership to ISHOF AND Digital...

Special Sets: A Look At the Training Of Age-Group and Stanford Star David Nolan Get Swimming World Magazine and Swimming World Biweekly FREE When You Become A Member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame New! 30 Day Membership to ISHOF AND Digital Swimming World Subscription for just $10 a mont...

How to Handle Problematic Team Members: Relying on Culture and Character This is the first of two stories exploring the dry deck coaching conundrum of teammate behavior, a dynamic every bit as important to team health and welfare as what transpires in the pool. Here, brothers Don and Ron Heidary, he...

Strength Training For Age Groupers: Yes or No? Some years ago, a rookie Middle Atlantic coach took his middle and high school swim teams to the weight room. There he introduced fundamental dryland and some machine-based resistance work. “The first day with the machines was a disaster and all my faul...

Coaching Corner: Q&A With Crow Canyon Head Man Ethan Hall California son Ethan Hall left the Golden State to experience the aquatic environment in North Carolina. Two years later, he was back winning conference championships, the hand of a 12-time Olympic medalist and directing Crow Canyon swimmers ...

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 the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Affected College Swimming (From the January issue of Swimming World Magazine) While college swimming has assumed a back-in-business profile, all is not exactly as it seems. Admittedly, the COVID-induced 22-month hiatus disrupted familiar operational and competitive rhyt...

A Glance At the Training of Michigan Standout Freshman Letitia Sim (Sample Sets Included) From the January issue of Swimming World Magazine Subscribe to Swimming World/ISHOF Letitia Sim arrived on the University of Michigan campus in the fall as CollegeSwimming.com’s No. 1-ranked recruit from Alabam...

How They Train: The Work of Olympic Medalist Emma Weyant (Sample Sets Included) (From the January issue of Swimming World Magazine) 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 O...

A Look at Past Training Sets of Olympic Champion Caeleb Dressel Through the years, a consistent feature of Swimming World Magazine has been the highlighting of specific training programs and sets of various athletes, including the sport's elite performers. Today, we dip into the magazine vault and l...

Hello World: Remembering a First Glance at Katie Ledecky - Circa 2011 By Michael J. Stott While the name Katie Ledecky is now a global, household name, she didn’t really enter the American consciousness until 2012 with her near-wire-to-wire 800 free Olympic victory in 2012. Many were surprised at th...

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Dutch Treat Tom Rikhof is an early adapter. Early on the head coach of ZPC Amersfoort, one the Netherlands three major swim clubs next to national affiliated high performance centers Amsterdam (De Dolfijn) and Eindhoven (PSV), saw the merits of embracing the long term tracking benefits of TritonWear...