10 Things You’ll Hear at a Swim Meet
The local swim meet can be a deafening beehive of activity. With sometimes upwards of a thousand swimmers milling about, bouncing with the full-tank type
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The local swim meet can be a deafening beehive of activity. With sometimes upwards of a thousand swimmers milling about, bouncing with the full-tank type
Forget spiders, the dark, or tiny spaces. (Although there is certainly room for those as well…) Swimmers experience their own set of fears, resulting from
Anecdotally, we like to think that swimming makes us at least somewhat smarter. One look at the whiteboard at most practices and the unknowing passerby
1. When coach says that we can wear fins and paddles for the main set… 2. When someone in your lane keeps touching your toes
We all have ’em in our lives– the folks who don’t understand what we are doing in the pool. Here are 12 of the things that they should stop saying to swimmers.
5-time Olympian. 27 Olympic medals. 22 of ’em gold. 39 career world records. 7x World Swimmer of the Year. It’s pretty easy to quantify the
The world record for the men’s 50m freestyle is relatively new one in the world of swimming, with the record being tracked since only 1976.
One of Mike Bottom’s (head coach at the University of Michigan) techniques for keeping swimmers engaged during those trying main sets is to have his
At the 1988 Seoul Olympics Janet Evans unleashed a beating on the swimming world, winning three individual gold medals, in the 400m and 1500m freestyles,
18 year old Glen Housman was having the race of his life. It was December 13, 1989, and on a special night in Adelaide, Australia
