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Ryan Held Assesses His Career on the Ultimate Swimmer Podcast The latest episode of the Ultimate Swimmer Podcast with Josh Davis featured Team USA sprinter Ryan Held, a member of the 2016 gold-medal winning 400 freestyle relay at the Olympic Games in Rio. Here is a look at some of the topics that He...

How the Marathon Swimming Greats Have Been Immortalized Around the World By Ned Denison The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) enshrines the aquatic greats in its Fort Lauderdale Museum and its annual inductions and awards. Aquatic greats are further honored in hundreds of other discipline-...

Ultimate Swimmer Podcast - Ryan Murphy: The New King of Backstroke By NOAH YANCHULIS Ryan Murphy, a.k.a “The King of Backstroke,” is a multi-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record Holder. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Ryan came home with three gold medals (100/200 backstroke, 400 medley rel...

English Channel Crosser's Open Water Message for 2021: 'Find Inspiration in it' By Kat Hall, Swimming World Contributor. During the past eight months, most of us have had our athletic events, whether competitive or recreational, cancelled. As courts, fields, rinks, and tracks have closed, then slowl...

If you’ve never tried cupping before, it’s important you try it out, either on the performance or recovery side of things. Personally, I would respond well to it, but feel crummy in the water for the next day or two afterward. On the flip side, some people feel great right after. So, it’s important ...

Lockdown is the word that now brings fear into any swimmer's heart. Virtually all pools, lakes, beaches, and even the local swimming holes were affected by the 2020 pandemic. Every place to swim except private home pools has been dramatically affected by COVID-19, and this has been a dismal year...

By JR Rosania, Every year when the holidays take over, we find ourselves bracing for all of the treats and goodies that we are going to consume. In times such as these, we need to think through our training, and stay focused and stay on track. The focus during the six weeks of the increased caloric ...

Listen to the Ultimate Swimmer Podcast With Hall of Famer John Naber By Noah Yanchulis. John Naber has quite the resume in the world of swimming. From swimmer, to ambassador, to writer, to motivational speaker, to broadcaster, to President of USOPA, John has done it all. In 1976 at the Summer Olympi...

COVID-19 and Environmental Considerations for Aquatic Sports The following paper is by Mark Collingham, M.S. Chemical Engineering, and head coach of Kroc/CDA Water Polo Club in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He may be reached at mark.collingham@gmail.com The coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 or covid-19) pandemic of ...

How One Club, the Naples Tiger Sharks, Cope with COVID-19's Uncertainty by Violet Johnston & Michael Kidd A spectre is haunting our pools and teams – the spectre of COVID-19. A postponed Olympics is hard for swimmers – it is the quadrennial event where swimmers around the world bask in the global aw...

By Noah Yanchulis Jack Roach is no doubt one of the greatest coaches of all-time in the sport of swimming and his trajectory to get to this point has been unique, crazy, inspiring, and unbelievable! We were so grateful to be able to talk with him and hear about his incredible life story and some of ...

Roosevelt Lake Open Water Swim, A Narrative By Joe Zemaitis. 2020 has been a very unique year! With many other training options curtailed due to world events, but with continued pool access, I ended the summer with the best fitness I've had in years. My brother John and I usually do some internatio...

By: Noah Yanchulis Josh Davis, Host of the Ultimate Swimmer Podcast, had the honor and privilege to interview the great Jill Sterkel about her life in and around swimming. She was able to provide so much insight and so many captivating stories about what it really takes to become the best at whateve...

Swimming Through Smoke: Michelle Rogalski's Journey To Alcatraz. By Michelle Rogalski. You could not see a thing. A small whiff of smoke was inhaled with every breath. Alcatraz only existed as a little black smudge on the horizon line, yet I was supposed to swim around the island in an hour. The fog...

by Laura Voet The time has come to dive into the precast concrete fabrication process for the Hall of Fame Aquatic Center's 27 Meter High Tower. A few pictures from the field trip to Gate Precast in Kissimmee on October 16, 2020.   The Fort Lauderdale team was there to select the color and textures ...

This month focuses on exercises that may benefit the mid-distance swimmer.  The mid-distance swimmer needs to develop a high level of speed as well as endurance. He or she must work on both strength and power to meet the demands of mid-distance racing. Therefore, We’ve provided some exercises with t...

The 5 Phases to Becoming a Distance Swimmer By Kelly Lennon (From the Swimming World Archive) Potentially the worst part of being a distance swimmer, besides the unbelievable amount of yardage that comes with it, is finding out you’re a distance swimmer. It’s very similar to going through the stages...

Caroline Block: Breaking Records & Barriers With Every Stroke Guest Story By Linda Waxman Finkle [caption id="attachment_448970" align="alignleft" width="300"] On the north channel, 2019. Photo Courtesy: Ian Conroy[/caption] Imagine a sport where the elements and conditions are never the same tw...

Why I Shouldn’t Have Quit Swimming (From the Archive) By Swimming World Guest Contributor, Nicholas Zhu First let me start off with why I did quit. As a kid, I hated swimming. I would cry when my parents dragged me to the pool for basic safety lessons. They used to bribe me with White Castle Sliders...

Great Races: Women's 100-Meter Backstroke at the 1964 Olympics By Dave Bartlett and Brenda Borgh Bartlett “In one drop of water is found all the secrets of all the oceans.” – Kahlil Gibran Dedication: We would like to dedicate our article to all female swim coaches over the decades, including one of...