Written By: Sean M. Tedesco As the focus, excitement and energy of winning our Swimming and Diving Conference Championship subsides, a...

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.

One of my favorite practice structures growing up was the scarcely used, but always eagerly anticipated "Get Out Swim".

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Like everything else in recruiting, there is a good degree of nuance when it comes to approaching individual recruits the right way.

As both an athlete and a coach, I actually have found that Open Water has an incredible ability to make everybody feel like a beginner.

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

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

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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.