Coaches Education

Contributed by Deniz Hekmati - Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Sport Scientist  Let’s face it, swimming is considered to be one of the healthiest sports to do, but we can also see and argue that there are a high level of cases of shoulder pain. Some swimmers are only feeling pain while swimm...

Split Time for the 400 Short Course Meters Freestyle is sponsored by LumaLanes. Today we look at the 400 Short Course Meters Freestyle for women by analyzing the splits for Ariane Titmus’ World Record swim from World Champs in 2018 and comparing the race data to Wang Jianjiahe’s former World Record ...

Contributed by Deniz Hekmati - Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Sport Scientist  How to grip things is a highly overlooked topic, yet grip strength is correlated to faster sprint performance in youth swimmers. Additionally, a solid grip in the weight room might save us from shoulder injuries ...

Trinidad and Tobago native Mark Rivas is a busy man. In addition to directing his own Team Rivas he is a coach with RWB Aquatic Academy and assistant coach at Hillview College in Tunapuna. In August he was one of four coaches for his country’s Goodwill Swim Team that competed in Suriname. For the la...

Injury happens. Sometimes it’s minor and other times quite significant. Perhaps you crash your bike and break your clavicle, get a gash & need stitches, or just get some bad road rash, each of which will keep you out of the pool.  Some athletes get persistent ear infections, often called “swimmers e...

Contributed by Deniz Hekmati - Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Sport Scientist  In this tip of the week, we want to introduce the McGill 3 Core Exercises. These are considered to be among the healthiest options for our spines. The exercises include: The Curl-Up, Bird Dog, and Side Bridg...

There were three winners of the Bob Gillett Award for Most Innovative Product at the 2019 American Swimming Coaches Association World Clinic in Dallas, Texas earlier this month. Swim Cloud, FORM Swim and GMX 7 were honored as the award winners as this was just the second time this award has been giv...

Swim MAC Carolina's Tanya Hobbs won the creative coaches award at the 2019 American Swimming Coaches Association World Clinic in Dallas, Texas for the 'tamales set.' Coaches from around the world submit their ideas for innovative ways to make workouts more fun for athletes or work on various aspects...

Megan Oesting of the Eastern Iowa Swim Federation was named as the ASCA Age Group Coach of the Year at the American Swimming Coaches Association World Clinic in Dallas, Texas earlier this month. Oesting was announced as the winner among the ten finalists: Alex Carney, Nitro Swimming Juya Cho, Waveru...

Swimming World sat down with David McCagg at the American Swim Coaches Association World Clinic in Dallas, Texas earlier this month. McCagg is a former USA Swimming national team member, having won two gold medals at the 1979 Pan American Games in the 100 free and 4x100 free relay. McCagg, World 100...

Coach John Mattos was inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame earlier this month in Dallas, Texas. Two-time Olympian Amy Van Dyken introduced him. John Mattos graduated from Colorado State University in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He was an All-Americ...

Swimming World sat down with Brandon Ward at the ASCA World Clinic in Dallas, Texas earlier this month. Ward is the CEO of the Australian Swim & Coaches Teacher's Association and made his first appearance at the American Swim Coaches Association clinic. Ward went through his relationship with Swimmi...

Last week left to take advantage of pre-registration pricing and group discount! Make your plans NOW to attend Eastern States Clinic in Cherry Hill, NJ on October 6 and 7 at the Crowne Plaza in Cherry Hill, NJ. Pre-registration and special clinic hotel rates end soon. Make your plans to attend the E...

Kathy McKee was inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame earlier this month in Dallas. She was introduced by David Gibson. SwimMAC Coach Kathy McKee guided pre-competitive swimmers all the way up to the national level – including swimmers named to the USA National Junior ...

Long-time Notre Dame coach Tim Welsh sat down with Swimming World TV's Brent Rutemiller at the ASCA World Clinic in Dallas to talk about his recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis and reflected on the lessons he learned in his coaching career. Welsh revealed his cancer diagnosis at the banquet the night...

Maureen Sheehan was inducted into the ASCA Hall of Fame at the World Clinic in Dallas earlier this month. Maureen has been a mainstay of swimming and coaching In Illinois for 40 years now, and has produced USA Team Members and Olympians as their formative years coach. In addition to an incredible re...

Swimming World TV's Brent Rutemiller caught up with Mike Parratto, the 2019 recipient of the ASCA Coach of the Year Award at the ASCA Convention in Dallas earlier this month. Parratto is notably the head coach of the Riptide Swim Team in Minnesota where he coaches 17-year-old phenom Regan Smith, who...

Contributed by Deniz Hekmati - Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Sport Scientist  In this last squat tip, we want to highlight that improving range of motion in the lower extremities is so critical yet highly underestimated. Just by engaging in daily activity to improve range of motion might f...

John Thomas, currently head age group coach at Great Wolf Swim Club in Spring Lake Park, Minn., has a passion for recording times and using data to maximize swimmer performance. In summer 2017, Great Wolf purchased 10 TritonWear units. Since then, Thomas has become a huge proponent of this advanced ...

Starting this November, FORM Swim Goggles will support Polar’s OH1 and OH1+ optical heart rate monitors Today, FORM, the sports technology company behind the world’s first augmented reality swim goggles, and Polar, the leader in wearable sports and fitness technology for over 40 years, announced tha...