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Streamline Teams
Aug 9, 20224 min read
Teaching Underwater Breathing To Beginners
Be patient and acknowledge that you are helping them fight through a natural instinct that has never required their attention before.
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Streamline Teams
Jul 7, 20227 min read
Growth Through Retention
If you had the opportunity to grow & you feel like you’ve maxed out your recruiting, it’s time for you to focus on growing through retention
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Streamline Teams
Jun 28, 20225 min read
Preparing Your Swimming & Diving Recruits For Post-Summer Conversations
Think it’s hard for you to get back into the swing of things heading into a new school year, Coach? It can be even harder for your prospects
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Streamline Teams
Jun 14, 20223 min read
IM Training
o build endurance in the 20 yard pool, we think about changing a set over a few weeks.
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Streamline Teams
Jun 2, 20223 min read
Hypermobility In Swimmers
It is important for swimmers and coaches to understand how their body moves through the water and how it reacts to gravitational forces.
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Streamline Teams
May 27, 20227 min read
The Power of Celebration
If this is something that is important to a head coach, then it becomes important to the rest of the staff.
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Streamline Teams
May 26, 20225 min read
Exploring Boundaries & Natural Consequences
To all the instructors and coaches out there with explorers, this can challenge your patience to experience this phase with your swimmers.
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Streamline Teams
May 12, 20224 min read
The Order of Freestyle
Whether working with beginners, intermediates or advanced swimmers, I always evaluate and teach freestyle in a specific order.
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Streamline Teams
May 5, 20224 min read
A Checklist For Your First Open Water Practice
So you’re planning your team’s first open water practice…maybe it’s the first open water practice of the season.
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Pam Swander
May 4, 20223 min read
Vacation In June: The Coach Was Not Happy
For those who want to continue to improve and achieve the fact is, timing is everything.
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Adriana Contreras
May 3, 20223 min read
Calling An Audible
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.
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Streamline Teams
Apr 29, 20227 min read
Making The Most With What You’ve Got
Get creative with what is known as the “dead space” when the water sits still and the lanes are virtually unused.
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Streamline Teams
Apr 28, 20224 min read
The Power of Opposition
We all have had an experience with a parent, coach or swimmer who has been adamantly opposed to what we do as coaches.
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Streamline Teams
Apr 27, 20226 min read
Swimming Has A Sizeism Problem
This piece is not meant to address how one sees themselves, but how others (particularly the swimming world) see an individual.
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Streamline Teams
Apr 22, 20227 min read
Health Insurance 101
Learning why and how to provide or obtain insurance will help the profession of swim coaches collectively raise the bar for compensation.
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Streamline Teams
Apr 21, 20223 min read
The Roadmap: Your Season Plan
Think of the season plan as your road map or blueprint.
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Streamline Teams
Apr 20, 20224 min read
Vulnerability In Coaching: Responsibility & Self-Compassion
How can you adjust your perspective in your coaching to promote better boundaries and expectations of yourself?
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Streamline Teams
Apr 13, 20222 min read
Are We Closing The Gender Wage Gap For Swim Coaches?
In the sport of swimming, and especially college swimming, women seem to be paid significantly less than their male counterparts.
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Streamline Teams
Apr 8, 20224 min read
Building A Strong Community To Support Our Program
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
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Streamline Teams
Apr 7, 20222 min read
Understanding Aquatic Fears
Swimming is often the first fear that children have to face on a regular basis until they conquer it.
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