The Trusted Source For Swim Coaching Professionals
Richard Sleight is in the spotlight during this second episode of the PSW Podcast. Host Robby Cox continues the discussion on long term athlete development and touches on professional development while discussing Coach Richard’s career path.
Although many countries went back into partial or even full shutdown at the beginning of the new year there were also plenty of teams with the opportunity to slowly get back into a routine with more regular pool access during the ongoing pandemic.
It was a challenging year for many of us including more downs than ups and yet there have also been unexpected things that have come out of it.
December isn’t only the time of the year where we prepare to look back on our journey through 2020 – in the swimming community, it’s also the time of the year where many coaches and teams are preparing for their holiday training over Christmas and New Year’s Day.
During this first episode of the PSW Podcast, our host Robby Cox welcomes Barry Prime, a Coach & Club Development Officer for Swimming Queensland, to mainly discuss long term athlete development among other things.
We were very happy to start sharing daily workouts again during the month of November and see the momentum of growth continue after the sudden halt during the global lockdowns.
Chris DeSantis’ life changed dramatically somewhere around March of this year when the pandemic started to hit the US. After successfully recording over 100 episodes of the Swim Brief Podcast, however, the show came to an abrupt stop.
During the month of September things were going great for our platform! With the global pandemic slowing down in many places, teams were returning to their pools and we saw an increasing interest for workout ideas.
August should have been a very exciting month for our sport with the swimming events at the Tokyo Olympics scheduled to close on the 1st with one last final session.
July is usually the time of the year when many of us would be glued to their screens and follow the action from the big end of summer meets.