This week on the Shannon Rollason Podcast we take a trip down memory lane with the Olympic Gold Medal winning coach as we look back at his beginnings in our sport and his very early days as a swimmer and as a coach. Shannon gives us some great stories about finding his love for swimming, as well as learning experiences along the way up in Brisbane as a young coach. Shannon also gives us his favourite drills for each stroke which is a must for all developing coaches when you are putting...

This week Shannon is joined by International Swimming Hall Of Famer and one of USA best ever coaches David Marsh. Shannon and David discuss his recent success with the Men’s Cal Bears team at the NCAA’s, as well as their take on what makes USA swimming the powerhouse that it is. David gives us his favourite swimmers of all time to watch as a fan of the sport, as well as his top tips when it comes to Sprint Freestyle, Breaststroke and Tapers.  David speaks to us about what continues to drive...

This week on The Shannon Rollason Podcast it’s all about Landing Your Planes smoothly during taper time. Here in Australia we are coming up on 2022 Australian Age Champs next week, and 2022 Australian Open Champs in 5 weeks time, and this week Shannon gives us his thoughts and insights into how he views tapering and the processes he uses to land his plane safely. From volume to intensity, length of taper and the differences even for strokes, Shannon covers it all this week and just in time...

This week on The Shannon Rollason Podcast, Shannon takes us through his philosophies and programs when it comes to Sprint Freestyle. Shannon gives us an in depth look at qualities he looks for in identifying potential sprinters in your program, and the how he programs and plans for them whether they are a 50/100 swimmer or 100/200 swimmer and the differences he see’s between the two. We also go through some of the best male and female sprinters of all time in our opinion, as well as some of...

In this podcast, we take a different look at the world of swimming coaches and draw comparisons to the wonderful world of Stand Up comedy. Whether its the great Eddie Murphy or Ricky Gervais, in many ways they have similarities to our own profession and supercoaches like Michael Bohl or Gregg Troy. Shannon takes us through the many ways the two professions are closely related, such as being self critical, comedians and coaches hanging out together and If you don’t them laugh or in our case...

Joining Shannon this week on the podcast is Scotland’s Head Coach for the the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, and Coach of Duncan Scott the most successful British Olympian from a single Olympics in Tokyo, our special guest today is none other than Steven Tigg. In this episode Steven and Shannon talk about the success of Duncan Scott and his progression throughout the years in the pool. Steven’s long term plan for Duncan when they started working together 18 years ago and how he keeps...

This week on the podcast Shannon chats to long time friend and Head Coach of Australian Swimming Rohan Taylor. Rohan and Shannon both give us their thoughts on last weekends NSW State Open Champs with all the Australian team athletes competing in one of the last hit outs before trials in May. We also chat about the success in Tokyo last year, and what Rohan took away from the most successful Olympics in the pool of all time. Rohan gives us his thoughts on events that age group coaches...

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. In this episode Shannon and I take a walk down memory lane all the way back to the 2007 World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, Australia which was 15 years ago. We discuss the big moments of the week in the pool, many of which came from one man named Michael Phelps. Shannon gives us an insight into his week as a coach, and how his athletes performed in Melbourne with names like Jodie Henry and Tarnee White in...

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. In this episode Shannon takes us through his philosophies and training methods when it comes to the stroke most people have a love hate relationship with Breaststroke. From development to elite racing, Shannon talks us through what he looks for in identifying a breaststroker, and then how he goes about developing them through your program. We also touch on World Champs, and the implications that has on Australia...

Welcome back to the Shannon Rollason Podcast for 2022. In our first episode back for the new year we discuss all the news going around in the world of swimming right now including World Champs being on, then cancelled and now put back on again, and what impact that has on our Aussie trials and championships coming up in a few months. We go through results from NSW State Champs from January and how Shannon saw the results across the board for not just his own team, but for the swimming...

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. This week Shannon answers all your questions in our very first Ask Shannon Anything episode. We have also broken this episode up into two parts so that everyone gets to listen and hear their questions being answered by Shannon himself. This is also our final podcast for the year in 2021, don‘t miss next weeks Part 2 for our final episode before Christmas

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. This week Shannon answers all your questions in our very first Ask Shannon Anything episode. We have also broken this episode up into two parts so that everyone gets to listen and hear their questions being answered by Shannon himself. This is also our final podcast for the year in 2021, don‘t miss next weeks Part 2 for our final episode before Christmas

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. This week Shannon welcomes special guest in World Championship winning and Olympic Coach, now QAS Coach development officer and one of the sharpest swimming minds in our business Brant Best. Brant joins Shannon to discuss the 2011 Shanghai World Champs and all the highlights and learning experiences from the major meet, including illness within the camp, preparation for the meet and of course James Magnussens...

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. This week Shannon welcomes special guest, Australian Swimming Legend, former athlete of Shannon‘s squad and 2 time Olympian Tarnee White. In this rare interview with the Olympic and Comm Games Gold medallist, Shannon and Tarnee discuss her amazing career in the pool from it‘s beginnings up in Redcliffe training with legendary Aussie Coach Ken Wood and the phenomenally talented squad they had up there.  We speak...

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. This week Shannon gives us his thoughts on Kyle Chalmers World Record 100m Freestyle (Short Course), 44.84 in Kazan for the World Cup Series.  Shannon talks to us about seeing a shift in Kyle‘s speed and why a lot of athletes find themselves swimming best times following a major meet like and Olympic Games. As well as sharing some of his own stories from coaching athletes who managed to have breakthroughs after major...

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. Today Shannon sits down to chat with long time friend, former colleague in Edenborough and Scottish Team Coach Mat Trodden. In this podcast Shannon and Mat discuss the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Team GB success, as well as reliving some great stories from Shannon‘s time coaching in Edenborough. The boys talk programming, learning experiences, and always staying versatile as a coach and continue challenging what we think...

Welcome to the Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. Today Shannon changes up the format and goes one on one with former Australian Swimming Head Coach and a man who lead Australia to it‘s equal most successful Olympic Medal tally in the pool Mr Alan Thompson. In this podcast Shannon and Alan discuss the late 90s to 2000s in our sport, and share rare stories of a time where both coaches were right in the thick of it when it comes to the Australian Swim Team. Alan is a...

Welcome to The Shannon Rollason Podcast This is episode number 3, and in this podcast Shannon talks to us all about him time coaching in Denmark. From the decision to leave the AIS and go to a European country to coach, to his first impressions of working in Denmark. We get real with discussions around family/work balance and the toll coaching takes on our families and how important the support from our families is to success. We also go through some of the amazing stories of athletes...

Welcome to The Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. This is Episode 2 and todays stories come from the Shannon‘s work with the one and only Jodie Henry Shannon gives us his first hand accounts of working with one of Australia‘s greatest ever sprinters, from a young shy teenager coming to the pool, all the way through to becoming Olympic and World Champion. We discuss the ups and downs of this amazing career, from the Gold medal and world record in Athens being the...

Welcome to The Shannon Rollason Podcast, a swimming podcast like no other. This Episode 1 and todays stories come from the Iconic 2004 Athens Olympic Games which was 17 years ago. Shannon gives us his insights into the lead up to the games including the long term goal setting that took place around winning the Women‘s 4x100 Freestyle relay for Australia, and how much work went into achieving that goal. We get his unique perspective on Jodie Henry winning Gold for Australia in the Women‘s...