May was an interesting month providing the opportunity to mix with college coaches at the CSCAA Convention in Evanston (IL), re-visit with Coach Alexis Keto at New Trier Aquatics, tour the OTC in Colorado Springs, and much more!
Alliance of Women Coaches #100for100
The Alliance wants to build a pipeline to add women coaches to the profession. By reaching their goal, in the next year the Alliance will expand their Mentor Program and recruit and train new women coaches in youth sports.
Swimmer’s Ear – Episode 9 – Rudy
In this episode of the Swimmer’s Ear Podcast, I’m talking about my favourite sports movie, Rudy (no judgment, please), and how it helped me stay involved in sport over the years.
Review – Best of Club: Building a Better Breaststroke with Jeremy Linn
In this video titled “Building a Better Breaststroke” from the Championship Productions’ Best of Club series, NCAP West Head Coach and PSW Contributor Jeremy Linn takes apart the stroke and reconstructs it, one step at a time.
Swimmer’s Ear – Episode 8 – Worst 400 IM Ever
Do you remember the first time you swam 400 IM? I imagine it wasn’t the greatest. In this Podcast I discuss why you should consider embracing the “worst 400 IM ever” mentality with your young swimmers.
Swimmer’s Ear – Episode 7 – Yoga for the Young Swimmer with Jeff Grace
This week I had the pleasure of discussing Yoga for “12 & Under” swimmers with Jeff Grace from Swimming Specific Yoga!
Stats & Memberships Report: April 2018
Streak broken – April was the first month in 2018 where we didn’t see growth in our monthly analytics. A positive sign may however be the fact that our visitors spent more time on the website – an indicator for more interesting content?
Swimmer’s Ear – Episode 6 – Teaching Feel
This week, Twitter users voted that I should discuss how to teach “feel!” As promised, this week I provide a description of “feel” as well as some tools coaches can use to teach it to their young athletes.
Swimmer’s Ear – Episode 5 – No Bad Fly
This week I discuss my efforts to change my coaching style to embrace my swimmer’s abilities in a more positive way. I spent a week coaching my athletes to stop swimming bad butterfly – but you’ll have to listen to find out how.
Swimmer’s Ear – Episode 4 – Turning a Bad Practice into a Good Practice
I had to completely throw out two consecutive practices last week. In this podcast, I talk about the reasons why and discuss how productive it was to embrace my failure and use it as a springboard into success.