Be patient and acknowledge that you are helping them fight through a natural instinct that has never required their attention before.

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

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

o build endurance in the 20 yard pool, we think about changing a set over a few weeks.

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

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

To all the instructors and coaches out there with explorers, this can challenge your patience to experience this phase with your swimmers.

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

So you’re planning your team’s first open water practice…maybe it’s the first open water practice of the season.

For those who want to continue to improve and achieve the fact is, timing is everything.

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?

In the sport of swimming, and especially college swimming, women seem to be paid significantly less than their male counterparts.

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.