Continuing to rebuild and improve the women-only team for the Indiana State Sycamores (the "Fighting Trees"), Josh shares his story and the current state of affairs at the mighty state school in Terre Haute. Mentions and links: Indiana State Swimming https://gosycamores.com/sports/womens-swimming-and-diving Email Coach Josh Christensen [email protected] 3S Super Sport Systems https://supersportsystems.com/ Order Sycamore Swimming apparel...

We visited with former UT All American and team captain Darrell Fick (UT Class of 1978) on his background, UT experience, and his coaching path from Alief ISD to First Colony, to women's coach at USC working alongside Peter Daland. Much information about the NIL and the Texas One Fund, and how YOU can help your alma mater or favorite swimming program. Timeline courtesy of Texas Swimming: 00:00 – Disclaimer & limited banter 01:48 – Eddie Reese Audiobook excerpts 02:38 – New Chuck...

Jennifer LaMont became ASCA CEO in 2021, swam her HS years in Ohio for Walnut Hills HS, and club at the Cincinnati Marlins under Denny Pursley (a former guest on SwimTalk) and Frank Busch before heading west to become a USC Trojan. She was a HS state champion at WHHS, and a collegiate All American at USC. Her leadership at ASCA is taking the coaching organization in new and expanded directions, and we think to great heights. You WILL enjoy this visit with Jennifer LaMont!

Former head coach at Tulane, Ohio, and NC State, as well as assistant to Bob Boettner at Clemson and the legendary Eddie Reese at Texas, veteran NCAA coach Scott Hammond covers a wide-ranging cornucopia of topics with our stalwart hosts, from his beginning days as a young multi-sport athlete to his storied NCAA coaching career. Check the timeline below and prepare to be wowed with his experience and star-studded tales. His tongue-in-cheek goal for this episode was to be better than his close...

Bob engages the authors of the internationally acclaimed five-star book, EDDIE REESE: COACHING SWIMMING, TEACHING LIFE in a wide-ranging discussion of inside stories on the creation and production of the January 2024 release of the audiobook version, as well as hearing Chuck's views and perspectives on the last season of Texas Longhorn men's swimming and diving with legendary Coach Eddie Reese at the helm. Over forty minutes of in-depth, behind the scenes GOLD. Chuck shares the bonus of...

An outstanding high school swimmer, Jason Devine did not start coaching until almost 15 years after graduating from Katy (TX) High School. Despite that late start, he progressed in his career on a meteoric rise, earning Gulf Swimming LSC's Age Group Coach of the Year not just once, not twice, but three times. Approaching 20 years in the coaching world now, Jason has served roles as Head Age Group Coach at Katy Aquatics, DADS Club, and Rice Aquatics. He served as a board member for Gulf...

This episode of Swim Talk A2B features Avery Adams. [content timeline follows] Avery hails from Kentucky where he got his first head swim coach job at the Palomar Hills Piranhas summer swim team. Since that first dip in the coaching pool, his coaching credentials have carried him to multiple positions in Kentucky, including the University of Kentucky, Wildcat Aquatics, Lakeside Seahawks, as well as coaching positions with several USA Zone and National Select Camps. For the past 7 years he...

Bob coached Madison in club swimming and has followed her from her high school and collegiate swimming career to her current position as an influential developmental coach for intermediate to advanced age-groupers in the 9-12 year age groups at Swim Fort Lauderdale (SFTL). A collegiate NCAA All American at Nova Southeastern, Madison continues to make a difference in our sport, and we had a rollicking good chat with her on December 22.

Bonnie returns for her THIRD interrogation and grilling by our intrepid podcast heroes to give a review of the 2023 Walmart OZ Mile Swim. The Walmart OZ Mile Swim is an open water race that offers participants and spectators a full weekend of fun in beautiful Northwest Arkansas with festivities centered around swimming. SwimTalk co-host Bob Button participated in the Mile Swim this past September after successfully eluding sharks, a crowded field, the frigid choppy waters of San Francisco...

Andy Korda has done almost all of it, from coaching learn-to-swim and summer team all the way up to Jr/Sr Nationals, Olympic Trials, and was hugely responsible for guiding the development of Midland's Natalie Hinds into a 20x NCAA All American and 2020 Olympic medalist for Team USA. Andy was coached by Dana and Bob from the age of 10 through high school in Katy, TX, and reunites with them here for an enjoyable and educational review of how to coach better and how he got to where he is now,...

In the mid-1980s we coached an age group team in west Houston, Western Horizon Aquatic Team ("WHAT"), in a then-small town called Katy. One of our "tweens" was a skinny little towhead named Lawrence "L.D." Romine. He was talented and worked hard and then, like the Clampetts, packed up and moved to Californy and that was the last we heard of him. Until January of 2022, when we got an email that knocked our Hokas off. Listen to our chat with Lawrence as he explains what happened in the...

[Description from Bonnie's first visit to SwimTalk in Episode 30] An in-depth look at conceptualizing and developing an open water swimming event in the beautiful Ozark vacation area of Beaver Lake, Arkansas. Bonnie Adams has a 3 decade career in teaching swimming to all ages and abilities. A former HS and collegiate swimmer at the University of Arkansas, Bonnie has a passion for all swimming, but especially Masters and open water, and the SWIM OZ event on the last weekend of September...

Mike Waldmann was Swim Talk's VERY FIRST podcast guest in the summer of 2020, and returns for a second visit to share the events and circumstances surrounding his boys team capturing the VERY FIRST Texas UIL 4A-under STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! We also reminisce and reflect on the recent passing of yet another dear friend, great coach, and Texas coaching legend, Steve Montgomery, affectionately known to all as "Dr. Steve." His importance and distinguished life and career cannot be overstated. He was...

In 2009, after almost 40 years of being a sport at Kutztown University, the AD met with head coach Tim Flannery to bluntly tell him the men's program was being cut, effective immediately. The "reason" was based on "[the] current economic situation" and as the result of an outside "funding study" on the intercollegiate athletic program, the then-director of athletics and the then-VP of Student Services and Campus Life recommended to the university president discontinuing the sports of men’s...

An in-depth look at conceptualizing and developing an open water swimming event in the beautiful Ozark vacation area of Beaver Lake, Arkansas. Bonnie Adams has a 3 decade career in teaching swimming to all ages and abilities. A former HS and collegiate swimmer at the University of Arkansas, Bonnie has a passion for all swimming, but especially Masters and open water, and the SWIM OZ event on the last weekend of September every year is THE place to go for OW swimmers and their families. Email...

Bob and Dana finally catch up with famed Hungarian Champion and Olympian, double US Nationals Champion, and NCAA Division I (U of Arizona) swimmer Norbert Agh and talk to him about the secrets behind over 40 years of Hungarian international swimming success, the old but still new StrokeMax "anti-paddle", and hear Norbert share his views on why he thinks the United States is such a remarkable country. ========== Email us at Swim Talk: [email protected] ========== You can contact Norbert...

Athletes get many kudos in life. The spotlight is on them from an early age. Some excel through high school. Some go on to star in college. A few make it to the pros. But, there are many facets to being an athlete. A Texas newspaper, The Victoria Advocate (www.victoriaadvocate.com), wanted to highlight student athletes, and for the 2018-2019 school year created an event and program called the Varsity Cup. The city of Victoria is located on the coastal plains of Texas about 50 mi from the...

In this conclusion to a fun and wide-ranging visit with Pat, we hear about how to take the reins of an interim coaching position without disrupting the flow and general scheme of things while still elevating and enhancing the program until the new coach arrives. We also venture into an enjoyable discussion of general coaching philosophies, focusing on the really important non-technical aspects of coaching and teaching, considering more extensively the consideration and critical value of...

Listen to Patrick as he details the functions and operations of his business, Swim Coach Staffing Solutions, a means of connecting teams needing interim or new coaches, and coaches looking for a job with teams. Email Patrick: [email protected] Take a look at over 30 job postings presented on the Texas Swimming Blog (texasswimming.blogspot.com) Listen to Patrick, Bob, and Dana discuss philosophy about connecting with swimmers and teaching life lessons through the...

Join Bob and Dana as they give the third-degree to famed writer for Swimming World Magazine and former state championship coach at The Collegiate School in Richmond, VA, Mike Stott. A dynamic background in media relations allows Mike to share insights and suggestions on getting more media coverage for HS swim teams. Grab hold and hang on tight as the SwimTalk co-pilots steer Mike through territory guaranteed to help make your media approach and relations stronger. ========== Email us at...

Join Bob and Dana as they chat with Greg Earhart, Executive Director of the College Swimming and Diving Coaches of America, the CSCAA (www.cscaa.org), as they discuss: The 2021 CSCAA Annual Convention, held online in virtual format this year; College swim finances; Recruiting in the Pandemic Era; and "Is it true that almost ANY high school swimmer can find a college to swim at?" (Ans.: TRUE!) ========== Email us at Swim Talk: [email protected] Sign up for the 2021 CSCAA Virtual...

Join Bob and Dana and their first repeat guest, Sam Kendricks, "America's Swim Meet Announcer" as they discuss: The 2021 NCAA Women's and Men's Swimming and Diving Championships; Covid protocols and the NCAAs; Eddie Reese's retirement and his impact on the world of swimming; A remembrance of the late Kevin Polansky, another great voice of NCAA swim meets; The origin of Sam's signature "Boom Shakalaka!" [Sam Kendricks photo courtesy of Peter Bick] ========== Email us at Swim Talk:...

Following is the episode segment timeline, sort of like a Table of Contents, but... we think you should really listen to the whole show!. Timeline 00.00 Intro and guest background 06.40 WELCOME, Coach Pursley 07.10 IN THEIR OWN WORDS: "My career and journey..." 12.20 Family: Child following the coaching footsteps; coaching your own kids 18.20 Tokyo Olympics and 1980 Boycott 26.30 Mission Viejo Nadadores vs. Cincinnati Marlins? 27.10 More on 1980 Boycott and advice to today's swimmers...

Join the boys as they wade through Episode 21 without a guest, and launch an expedition that covers these topics: o The Annual General Meeting (Conference) of NISCA; o Virtual clinic offerings from ASCA; o A quick look at HS swimming championship seasons across the US; o the annual Swimming and Diving Rules Survey from the NFHS; o killed-off NCAA Div I swim program reinstated; o some comments and reflections about Title IX and so-called "revenue sports" Music...