This week Erik and Joel drop in to discuss the recent coaching moves within the SEC. We then go over some highlights of the Mission Viejo meet. Finally, we talk about the top reasons we’ve heard to get out of swimming at practice.

Listen to the end where I address the pathetic way Swimming World covered the departure of Garrett McCaffrey from Phoenix Swim Club.

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Hot off a season where he coached the program’s first ever PAC-12 Champion, I talk to Washington State Swimming Head Coach Matt Leach.

We cover the ups and downs of the finished season, how someone goes from 23.5 to 22.1 in the 50 free in college. We also talk about quality of life in coaching and some of the recent movement around the coaching landscape.

In this one, we address the decision by Nikki Kett to leave coaching at the University of Michigan before turning to our own suggestions for taking care of yourself in a coaching career.

Stick around for the end where we go through the following workouts:

Whitewater Pain Train

16 x 100 on 1:05. 

Four in a lane. 1st person leaves on 60 second and third five a part 

Four stays on side.  

On the next 60 1st person dives in, the original leader is now second leaving on the interval (:05) 2nd person goes on :10, third is :15 and last person hops out. 

Keeps repeating. Interval can change to whatever - math gets harder on those 

So more people in a lane less breaks

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Brett Hawke says that Texas’ 26 NCAA qualifiers with 9.9 scholarships is a riddle, but doesn’t he know the answer? Why were NCAA interviews by Bobby Finke and Shaine Casas so awesome? What is ipsedixitism?

That and more questions answered on this week’s podcast with Joel and Erik:

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Signe Bro is a swimmer who has made an Olympic qualifying standard for Denmark and hopes to compete in Tokyo 2021.

We talk about the role her parents have played for her over her career as well as some of the ways she has learned to handle with nerves at big meets. We also talk about how she's learned to deal with more people giving her opinions on what she should do as she rises in the ranks, and pro swimming in the ISL:

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You read the title, you know what it is about!

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Joel and Erik are here once again for the Thursday pod where we talk NCAA swimming. We start by giving our snapshot analysis of the men’s meet, and then look back at the women’s meet the week before.

Finally, we discuss the morality of how much pressure is appropriate to put on kids at 16-17 years old in the recruiting process.

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Fresh off the 2021 NCAA Championships, I’m joined by Cal Associate Head Coach Dani Korman. Dani talks about the team’s performance at the meet, as well as what obstacles Cal had to overcome to have a successful season.

Finally, we turn to some talk of recruiting and what Cal’s doing differently than some of its rivals. Enjoy:

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This week on the Swim Brief I’m joined by Joel and Erik to react to one event of the Women’s NCAA Division 1 Championship.

We then turn to the story of a swimmer transferring from D1 Arkansas to D3 Hendrix College, before giving our thoughts on James Fike crushing personal bests in his late 30s.

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This week I wanted to take state of a couple of really important topics in Positive Psychology and where we are the moment.

Things have been rough for a lot of us. That has necessitated a lot of pessimism to grind through some of the worst parts of the last year. Right now, however, is a big opportunity to start to turn some of that boat around ourselves:

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