It is no secret that women are underrepresented in athletic coaching positions.

I’d like to encourage everyone reading this to try to go beyond workouts and sets in their quest to learn from other coaches.

The goal of these articles will be to create a season’s worth of teachable concepts that can be used within your club’s age group program.

There is no linear line from job to job or switching over from club to college...

Both will take with them a sense of drive and discipline that only the sport of swimming can offer.

There are a lot of different types of teams out there what do you want to be?

If you are considering being a volunteer, having a sense of these values will help you maximize your takeaways in this role.

We invite you to be a part of this community and to be gentle with yourself through this journey.

I believe the goal for a great 400 IM set, is make it around 3-4k in length and have a build in speed to the set.

I believe that imagination is the catalyst for optimizing and maximizing every second of each practice.

What other advantages of having a masters program? The most important is the support system for your club that masters swimmers provide.

I’m open to learning from my athletes and I allow them to explore and teach they teach me skills and drills that they have found beneficial.

Our words matter. They carry weight with our swimmers whether they are positive or negative.

We need to prioritize our relationship building, continually work on connections, amplify and raise each other up...

Since I believe knowledge is power the more parents understand why teams and coaches do what they do, the more support and buy in teams get.

TEAM Championships are won in Finals. Prelim/final meets are usually scored meets and points can only be scored in the final session.

Some swimmers won’t even take a full stroke of butterfly until weeks into working on these drills. The pay off for me has been significant.

One component that isn’t talked about a great deal – perhaps ever – is how to incorporate workouts from other coaches into your style.

Coaching is about transferring knowledge and language is integral to our everyday lives...

For me, technical exercises are not the panacea for improving an athlete. They take up too much time; in some cases the athlete has to...