9 Signs You Have a Swimmer’s Body
There are a ton of benefits for choosing swimming as your sport of choice, but probably none that serves our vanity quite as much as having a swimmer’s body.
11 Team Traditions I’m Thankful for as a Swim Parent
Here are 11 team traditions that made swimming fun and kept my kids excited about the sport…
Jerome Smith Doesn’t Let Heart Problems Stop Him From Swimming
After suffering a heart attack six years ago, Jerome Smith’s heart only pumps at 34 percent of a healthy one. But that hasn’t kept the 73-year-old from blasting away at SCAQ Masters swim workouts. And now he plans to compete in his first swim meet in 15 years.
Three Vermont Athletes Injured During Ft. Lauderdale Airport Shooting
Though reports yesterday indicated no swimmers were among the five killed and six wounded in a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport yesterday, the University of Vermont reports three of its swimmers were injured in the “chaotic evacuation” from the terminal, one with a broken foot.
Hey Swimmers: Here’s How to Actually Keep Your Resolutions This Year
It’s 2017. Crazy! Here is how to actually keep the resolutions that you set for yourself this year.
VIDEO: Rio Moment To Savor – Cody Miller
USA Swimming published a short interview with Olympic bronze medalist Cody Miller about his Rio swim. The video also includes Miller’s IU teammate Lilly King, who won gold in the women’s version of the 100 breast.
VIDEO: The Most Underrated Sport
SwimSwam reader and Utah swimming commit Felix Chiun passed along this video he made about his sport, entitled “The Most Underrated Sport.” Chiun talks about swimming’s role outside of the Olympics, where the sport tends to gain international acclaim, only to drop back into the shadows in the three years in between.
SwimSwam Pulse: 56.2% Support Age-Based Tech Suit Ban
Votes were very split on this issue, with just 62 more votes favoring bans than opposing them.
Business Buzzwords Take On The Pool
Don’t ‘drink the kool-aid’ while ‘drilling down’ your ‘body of work.’
Recovery Strategies For Athletes
The human body is an amazing machine. It can recover from some extreme conditions, bounce back from injury and thrive when given the right circumstances.
11 Tips for Swim Parents About Really, Really Bad Swims
When your swimmer has a really bad swim—I mean an awful one—what do you do? How do you feel?
VIDEO: Meet Simone Manuel, As Introduced By The Youth of USA Swimming
Coming off a blowup 2016 that saw her win a massive upset Olympic gold medal in the 100 free, Simone Manuel is the subject of a new USA Swimming video in which she gets to tell the story of her swimming career, with some help from her younger USA Swimming teammates.
Funkier Athletes That Starred in 2016
We take a look at four swimmers, sponsored by Aussie swimwear brand Funkita, that can feel very satisfied with their achievements in 2016.
12 Ways to Procrastinate Before Your Next Swim Practice
Struggling to get motivated to go to practice? Don’t worry, here are 12 more ways to make it even more difficult!
The Top 20 Most-Commented SwimSwam Stories of 2016, Excluding Recaps
Earlier this week, we tallied up the most-commented SwimSwam stories of the year 2016. That list is typically very heavy on live meet recaps, which function as much as a live chatroom as they do a comment section. So to filter out that effect, we’ve also compiled a list of the top non-recap stories to amass the most comments in the year 2016.