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...

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...

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We are creating an “environment of psychological safety” for all our athletes.

As inconvenient as change can be, it has forced us as individuals, and as a sport, to look at what really matters.

If you find you’re layering correction after correction, you’re fixing symptoms not problems.

One of the most important skills that you can teach and keep refining with your athletes is body awareness in the water.

If you hire people who make you comfortable or you hire people who are just like you, then you are wasting your time.

To me, there is something different about learning something and experiencing something.

Written By: Meredith Griffin I recently hit a milestone birthday and while I prefer to look out the front windshield of life, the...

I am forced to navigate my voice and success in a community that is not represented by people who look like me.