Coaches Education

Do It Yourself: Simple Steps For the ROAD to Recovery...Or R-E-C-O-V-E-RY After taking on a long swim meet or getting through a challenging practice, all a swimmer really wants to do is head straight to bed. What athletes miss most of the time is an essential part of becoming a better swimmer: Recov...

Learning From Colleagues: How Swimming Promotes a Familial Relationship Among Coaches Swimming World explores the fraternal nature of how coaches learn from one another. Not surprisingly, such education isn’t always about X’s and O’s, but borne from familial relationships that reveal the caring for ...

How They Train: Inside the Work of Princeton Multi-Event Star Raunak Khosla After a fast long course summer in 2017, Raunak Khosla attracted considerable interest among college coaches, finally settling on Princeton University, where he is presently a three-time team captain and studying economics. ...

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...

Sample Sets: A Look At the Training Of Fast-Rising Sprint Star Anna Moesch Greater Somerset County YMCA stalwart Anna Moesch has been checking boxes for quite a while. Her coach Mary Korey gives the University of Virginia recruit high marks in a variety of categories. Consider the following areas in...

Jack Bauerle and Paul Yetter to Speak at Pennsylvania High School Swimming Coaches Association Clinic The Pennsylvania High School Swimming Coaches Association will holds its 22nd annual clinic on April 15 at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg. The clinic will feature a pair of standout ...

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...

A Letter to Swim Coaches Everywhere: Thank You Dear Coach, I would like to begin this letter by asking you a question. A simple, one-word question: Why? Why did you pursue this career? Why do you wake up at the most ungodly hours every day, just to inevitably scream at your swimmers for breathing of...

A Taste of Everything: Why Younger Swimmers Should Race Every Event In swimming, the topic of specialization of young athletes is often contentious and controversial. At the beginning of my career, I was extremely fortunate to grow up and participate in a program that put an emphasis on doing all di...

When It All Falls Apart: An Ode to the Falling Piano The swim community has lots of colorful terms to describe our sport. One of my favorites is “a piano fell on their back.” If you have been around pool decks long enough, you will have heard this descriptor for races. The piano describes the dreade...

Core and More: 4 Core Exercises to Improve your Swimming Having a strong core is one of the most important components of swimming, as it increases stability and mobility for your strokes. Here are four exercises that can help build your core strength: Plank Position While Using Swimmer's Arms This e...

Q&A With Jamie Bloom, Head Coach For the YMCA Of the Triangle Area Jamie Bloom has given her personal and professional life to swimming and the betterment of all those who pursue the sport. Not only a doer, she is a voice for swimming’s underserved populations and continues to serve on local, state,...

How They Train YOTA Standout and North Carolina Recruit Reese Stoner Reese Stoner is Chapel Hill-bound come fall to swim for the University of North Carolina. Primarily a backstroker and IMer, the six-foot, 160-pound senior at Millbrook High in Raleigh is the Tar Heel State’s 23rd-ranked male (279th...

Goldminds: How to Become a Better Swimmer By Doing Nothing* ******************************************** There’s an old saying about success: “The harder I work, the more successful I get.” Seems logical: I want to succeed, I want to improve. I want to swim faster…so...I work harder, I train more of...

A Look At the Development and Training Sets of Rising Star Kayla Han You know you are something special when just 13—and the youngest qualifier at the Olympic Trials—Olympic medalist Elizabeth Beisel gushes at your prowess. Now 14, Kayla Han has been on USA Swimming’s radar since she set her first N...

How to Win a Championship: Lose a Dual Meet By Ron Blanc, Guest Contributor/Santa Margarita Catholic High School Swim Coach As a boys’ and girls’ high school coach for 35 years, I have been blessed to coach many championship teams...but only on the girls’ side. The boys’ run to titles, however, has ...

The Fine Art Of In-Meet Coaching: It Can Take a Deft Touch...Or a Hammer You want smoke on the water, excitement in aquatics? Just put longtime coaches in the same room. For starters, invite Jack Bauerle, Don Gambril, Frank Comfort, Bob Boettner or the departed Don Easterling and Ray Bussard. The su...

What is Overtraining Syndrome? A Glance At An Overlooked Illness Overtraining syndrome is a condition where an athlete deals with declining performances and overall fatigue in their sport, despite continued or increased training. The name of the game in the sport of swimming is hard work and perseve...

5 Strength Training Exercises to Improve Swimming Performance By Kayla Riemensperger Weight training is often a highly debated topic in the world of swimming. While there is no clear-cut right or wrong answer to whether or not weights are beneficial for developing swimmers, many year-round programs ...

The Starting Line: Nutrition vs. Sports Nutrition By Dawn Weatherwax, RD,LD,ATC,CSCS Nutrition vs. Sports Nutrition All of the probing and poking around in the realms of nutrition and physiology has resulted in a science that combines the best knowledge from both arenas. Good nutrition is essential ...