Donna de Varona Paves the Way for Women in Sports
Courtesy of Kim Vandenberg / Excelle Sports and Mutual of Omaha BREAKOUT Swim Clinic, a SwimSwam partner. In mid-September in…
How to do the High Octane Freestyle
I call this sprint technique High Octane Freestyle because it demands more energy, yet produces more power.
The Itch: Why I Couldn’t Leave Swimming Behind
No more 4:40am alarm, no more wishing-i-had-chosen-an-easier-sport, no more swim meet frustration, or wishing I had stuck with house league basketball. No more.
New documentary “Swim Team” at DOC NYC
SWIM TEAM is a feature documentary chronicling the rise of a competitive swim team made up of children and teens on the autism spectrum.
Rio Reflections with Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel
Three time Olympian and the 2016 swim team captain, Elizabeth Beisel, went into Rio with high expectations for herself.
Rio Reflections with Olympic swimmer Maya DiRado
Olympic gold medalist and Stanford graduate Maya DiRado was an absolute sensation in the pool at the Rio Olympics.
FINIS: Train for Gold Like Brad Snyder
Over the next four years, Snyder established himself as a force to be reckoned with in para-swimming.
4 Reasons Why Athletes Need to Get Feedback From Their Coach
You want to grab the athlete by the goggles and scream about how irresponsible they are, or how they need to plan their race timeline better. It’s all the swimmers fault! But hold on there coach..Who’s fault is it really?
How to Avoid the ‘Modern Toilet Seat’ Syndrome, Backstroke/Freestlye
I call this the ‘modern toilet seat’ syndrome, because in swimming freestyle and backstroke, the hand slows down just like a modern toilet seat with a spring on it to keep it from falling down hard.
An Open Letter to my College Team
You make every grueling set, late night study session, and lost hour of sleep worth it.
Things My Coach Said That Still Make No Sense
Sometimes, even the most genius swimming minds can make you say hmmm.
4 Thoughts for Swim Parents When Teams Fracture
If your child is unhappy, find out why. Make an appointment with the coach and have a conversation.
What Swimming Gives You in Return
I kept asking myself what the point of pushing myself to the very extreme of my physical and mental limits if I wasn’t even going to get anything out of it
Swimming is the Teacher, I am the Student and These are the Lessons
The next day my team pretended nothing had happened and we went back to being best friends and pals! But I learned a lesson…