In the SwimSwam Podcast dive deeper into the sport you love with insider conversations about swimming. Hosted by Coleman Hodges and Gold Medal Mel Stewart, SwimSwam welcomes both the biggest names in swimming that you already know, and rising stars that you need to get to know, as we break down the past, present, and future of aquatic sports.
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Annie Lazor is doing everything she can to maintain pool time during this quarantine, and that means swimming wherever she can. Along with IU post-grads Cody Miller and Lilly King, Lazor has swam in 4 different pools over the last 2 weeks. Currently, they're training in a 1-lane, 25-yard pool that is INSIDE someone's home.
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Originally published April 9, 2020.
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
We sat down with Jake Mitchell, the Carmel Swim Club product who will be on his way to Michigan in just a few short days. Jake talked with us about what makes Carmel such a special team and why so many great swimmers have been forged in its fires. Mitchell also recalls his experience at the 2019 World Jr Championships, and how exciting the world jr record-breaking 800 free relay with Carson Foster, Luca Urlando, and Jake Magahey was.
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Music: Otis McDonald
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Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
We sat down with new USC head coach Jeremy Kipp to talk Southern Cal past, present, and future. Kipp told us what he's excited to come back to at USC after having been the head coach for Boise State and Northwestern, including (if you can believe it) the traffic. He also reminisced on some of the distance practices he coached at during his first stint with the trojans, with famed Olympians like Ous Mellouli and Larsen Jensen.
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Music: Otis McDonald
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Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Chris Reid, an Alabama alum and current pro training with the NC State post grad group, gave some deep insight as to what can be done to stay positive during this time of uncertainty amid the Covid-19 outbreak. Chris spoke to the importance of journaling and getting your feelings down on paper, so that way they don't control you.
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Originally published on April 2, 2020.
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
We sat down with Olympic and world champion Ricky Berens. He dove in with us about making the transition from high school to college swimming, which he admits wasn't the smoothest one for him. In high school, he had been the best swimmer in the nation for his age. But when he got to college, he found a whole new world of elite competition which took him a while to ascend to.
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Music: Otis McDonald
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Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
We sat down with national teamer and Jr Worlds Silver medalist David Curtiss. We discussed his age-group swimming, particularly his acute attention to detail when it comes to his technique. Curtiss told us stories from Summer Nationals, Jr Worlds, and his legendary recruiting trip to NC State in which 4 of the nations top recruits all committed after just one weekend together.
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Music: Otis McDonald
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Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Madisyn Cox is at home with her parents (and Dean Farris) in Lubbock, Texas. She admits that while she was thrown for a pretty big loop when the Olympics were postponed, having to decide if she wanted to keep swimming another year and try to defer medical school, she is now doing much better.
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Originally published April 21, 2020.
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
We sat down with Emma Weyant, 2019 national champion in the 400 IM and soon to be freshman at Virginia. Weyant took us through her age group career, breaking down what it took for her to make the jr national team and ultimately compete on the international stage for USA at the 2018 Jr Pan Pacific Championships.
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Music: Otis McDonald
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Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
We dove deep into a piece of trivia you may not know about: Mellouli's performance at the inaugural Pan Arab Games in 2011. Since they were offering cash prizes to all medalists and a bonus to the athlete with the most medals, Mellouli went all in and entered every nearly every race. He won 15 of those races, and a lot of these weren't gimmies either. He was winning 50's and 100's of stroke, and for someone who was about to go on to win the 10k at the Olympics, that's pretty darn impressive.
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Music: Otis McDonald
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Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Leah Gingrich is the 30-year-old who took a 6-year hiatus and is now chasing an Olympic dream. Last summer at the 2019 Nationals, she hit a lifetime best in the 200 fly, her first PB in the event since 2008. Gingrich spoke with me about what she's doing to pass the time during the Covid-19 quarantine, and how she felt mostly relief when the announcement was made that the Olympics would be postponed.
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Originally published on April 1, 2020.