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SSPC: Mackenzie Padington Explains Her Pre-Olympic Retirement

Padington explains her reasons for leaving the sport she’s been in since age 4, including injury and being unhappy with her current training environment

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SSPC: Tommy Cope on Why Breaststrokers Can Get Away with Training Alone

Cope thinks that maintaining feel for the water is more important than maintaining an aerobic base for breaststroke versus other strokes

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SSPC: Sydney Pickrem Gives Opinion on New Canadian Olympic Trials Format

She gave us her perspective on ISL Season 2, making the move to Toronto, and the new Canadian Olympic Trial format that was released last week.

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SSPC: Nic Fink on Double Wrist Injury to Double American Records During ISL

Fink takes us through the grueling “rehab” of having to swim while wearing soft casts on both hands as well as getting back into the swing of racing

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SSPC: How DII Drury University Produced the Current #2 Sprinter in the Country

We sit down with Drury sprint coach Zach Mertins, who led freshman Karol Ostrowski to break 2 DII National records in the 50 (19.09) and 100 free (41.50)

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SSPC: Penn State Coaches Explain Importance of Team Book Club on Culture

Penn State swim & dive has a book club and most recently the women read Untamed by Glennon Doyle, while the men “read” (watched) Netflix’s The Last Dance

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SSPC: Marco Koch on 60x50s LCM Breast Holding Under 30 on Fast/33 on “Easy”

Koch talks about his longevity in the sport (he’s 30, won his first Euro champ at 20), training by himself, and what a normal “hard” workout is for him

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Caeleb Dressel Dissects 20.4 50 Free Speedo Sub-20 Challenge

Dressel gets real about going 20.4 3 different times in the supersuit. He breaks down how the suit changes your body position and what changes he had to make

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SSPC: Marcin Cieslak on Going PR’s, Training Himself After 3 Year Break

Marcin went numerous best times during ISL Season 2, all the while training himself and sticking to his own plan during the training camp.

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Drew Kibler on Time out of the Pool: “The Break was paramount” (Video)

No collegiate swimmer has been under 4:10 this year besides Kibler, who has now done so twice, once at 4:08 in October and once last week in 4:09

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SSPC: Arno Kamminga on Never Swimming Warmup Before Races

Kamminga never gets into the pool before he races. The physical warm-up that he takes himself through is solely on land. 

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SSPC: Olivia Bray Speaks on Eating Disorder Treatment, New Home in Texas

Prior to seeking help, Bray said she could count on one hand how many foods she could comfortably eat, too afraid to approach the rest. 

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