It is important for swimmers and coaches to understand how their body moves through the water and how it reacts to gravitational forces.

Forming friendships with other swim parents will enrich your sport experience.

If this is something that is important to a head coach, then it becomes important to the rest of the staff.

We find our dreams unrealistic, unobtainable, too difficult to achieve. But everything that has been achieved started with a dream.

If you really want something, persevere. If some strategies don't work, try others. Don't be afraid of the effort.

Whether working with beginners, intermediates or advanced swimmers, I always evaluate and teach freestyle in a specific order.

We get much more value from taking a breath, it's okay to take a step back from the physical growth to take care of the mental growth.

Get creative with what is known as the “dead space” when the water sits still and the lanes are virtually unused.

We all have had an experience with a parent, coach or swimmer who has been adamantly opposed to what we do as coaches.

This piece is not meant to address how one sees themselves, but how others (particularly the swimming world) see an individual.

Learning why and how to provide or obtain insurance will help the profession of swim coaches collectively raise the bar for compensation.

Think of the season plan as your road map or blueprint.

How can you adjust your perspective in your coaching to promote better boundaries and expectations of yourself?

I believe community should be the backbone of a quality college program as it pulls together all of the involved groups toward a common goal

Swimming is often the first fear that children have to face on a regular basis until they conquer it.

Coach didn’t move your kid up to the next group. It may just be the best thing to happen to your swimmer, and here’s why….

The majority of talks are soft skill based and have moved away from the more technical aspects or what I term as the “nuts & bolts”.

It is “okay” to fumble while trying to understand others, but it is more important to listen to others to grasp the full picture...

Taking a program from good to great begins and ends with coaches and athletes developing trust and forming an internal agreement.

As a captain she was put into a position where she could have a direct influence over the decision making processes for the team...