In the SwimSwam Podcast dive deeper into the sport you love with insider conversations about swimming. Hosted by Coleman Hodges, Garrett McCaffrey, and Gold Medal Mel Stewart, SwimSwam welcomes both the biggest names in swimming that you already know, and rising stars that you need to get to know, as we break down the past, present, and future of aquatic sports.
We sat down with Coleman Stewart, the NCAA champion and world record holder who recently retired as a swimmer and started his college coaching career at Duke University. Stewart discusses why he ultimately decided to hang up his goggles and what motivated him to pick up the stopwatch.
We also address the ongoing conversation of elite swimmers getting offered positions at DI Power-5 schools without* prior coaching experience. Stewart explains what he feels any elite swimmer (and himself in particular) brings to the coaching table that you don’t learn anywhere else.
*Stewart has coached on a club and summer league level and run swim clinics, as mentioned in the podcast.
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Remember when Murphy punked this guy in live tv after Coleman talked $hit to Murphy’s race and then Coleman cried about it on Twitter.
you don’t get points for talking to the back of his head. look him in his eye if you really got beef.
Why would someone the caliber of Ryan Murphy have beef with someone so much less in the sport. Coleman doesn’t deserve Murphy’s attention.
that’s true, he was punching down. but I didn’t see that bravado when Rylov was pimp slapping him all over Tokyo. he went and whined to the media. be consistent
How can a WR holder be “much less in the sport”?
Why this many downvotes?
Because Duke.
Unless your family was taken hostage and the only way to free them was to enroll at Duke, you should not be a Duke fan.
I felt that way until visiting campus a few times for Canes football games. Parking is free and everyone is surprisingly non jerkish. I even had Grayson Allen say hello to me in the Sports Hall of Fame building adjacent to Cameron Indoor.
what did duke ever do to you?
I also kind of figured that considering this was Brian’s first hire, perhaps it should have been an impact hire instead of a flashy one
Go Duke!
Walking the walk matters, other things being about equal, I’d respect a coach that has been MUCH faster/stronger than me more UNLESS they had crazy resume of improving already elite swimmers times.
Glad he found a career in swimming to stand in for the folding of ISL/SCM racing as a full time job, not many schools can brag about having a reigning WR holder as a coach!
A lot of the times, the best coaches tend to be the ones that weren’t amazing during their career but obviously still good. Because more often than not you need a combination of talent and hard work to reach to upper echelons of athletics, and sometimes those types of people can’t fully elaborate/explain technical things because it just comes naturally to them, as opposed to those who had less talent but worked harder to get to where they were so they know the process in it’s entirety.
I think Bowman is an example of this? He swam for Florida State, obviously he was good but he wasn’t like, the US top swimmer, (I could be misremembering the article I read… Read more »
It’s not so much the “hard work defined” by those that are top coaches, but the ability to be mentally focused on a myriad of different variables (physiology, training methods, details of technique/physics, psychology, etc) and being able to mesh those variables together properly for unique individuals. I guess you could argue that’s another part of “hard work”, but I think it goes much deeper than that. But I do agree, it seems (I’m using this as more of an anecdotal response rather than quantitative) the best coaches weren’t the extremely top 0.1% of the sport when they were the athletes because they needed some sort of innate ability to think in these terms “better” than their competitors in order… Read more »
I think those qualities that make great coaches that think in those myriads of variables can sometimes impede them from success in the sport themselves because they can be overwhelmed with how many details needed to be focused on.
The best in the world aren’t necessarily the ones who know exactly what they’re doing right, they just race and work hard and listen to the coach. They aren’t thinking about “what angle to enter their arm into the water”, they just do it and they do it extremely well.
Congrats
Going from perpetual 4th place to not placing at all seems like a deal to me
Good work my man. Big things happening at Dook!!