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Social Kick • Swim Culture & Stories

The Social Kick Podcast dives into the world of swimming — from Olympic legends to everyday athletes.Authentic, funny, and insightful conversations that bring the swim community together.🏊‍♂️ Hosted by swimmers, for swimmers.

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01:16:16

Jonny Marshall Will Modglin Yamato Okadome Florida...

Social Kick • Swim Culture & Stories ·

2025/04/15

3rd Annual Men’s NCAA Championship Recap Show featuring Will Modglin (Texas), Jonny Marshall (Florida) and Yamoto Okadome (Cal).The dust settled another Texas vs. Cal title race with Texas taking the crown, some of the up and coming stars from the meet sat down for a cross-team chat about the meet and college swimming. Will Modglin scored 23 individual points, highlighted by a team NCAA championship for the longhorns and 3 A final appearance. Modglin had ups and downs, as he was on the national

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Jassen Yep - The most surprising win of 2025 NCAA...

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2025/04/08

As a 5th year, even Jassen Yep didn’t think winning an NCAA Swimming title was possible until he touched the wall in the 200 breast. After touching, Jassen Yep let out raw emotion and excitement, resulting in a legendary swimming celly. Although it seems like Yep was an overnight success, there was a lot of hard work behind this win. Yep was an accomplished high school swimmer in California, representing Archbishop Mitty and swimming at PEAK with elite club coach Abi Liu. In high school, he went a

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01:50:22

2025 NCAA Swimming Recap

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2025/04/03

In this special NCAA Swimming recap episode, the Social Kick crew recaps the most memorable moments of 2024-2025 in NCAA swimming season. We discuss the best individual swims (Walsh’s 46.97 100 fly, Crooks’ 39.83 100 free and many more), the overall environment of women’s and men’s championship meets, and rumors around the pool deck. Join us for a lively and insightful discussion as we reflect on another great year of NCAA swimming filled with incredible swims, unforgettable moments and a few

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01:09:36

Iona Anderson - Australia's Teenage Backstroke...

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2025/03/25

Iona Anderson is a teenage Australian Olympian and one of the best backstrokers in the world. 5th at her first Olympics individually, she came home with silver and bronze medals for her relay efforts in Paris. A native of Perth, West Australia, Iona grew up focusing primarily on gymnastics and didn’t even start swimming until age 12, so her rise to be among the elites happened quickly.Perhaps this success in the pool comes from a short term focus, not being distracted by the potential she has down

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Quintin McCarty - Fastest Swimmer in ACC - Episode 235

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2025/03/18

The best kicker in college swimmingQuintin McCarty, the 2025 ACC 50 freestyle champion, could be looking to sign NIL deals in two sports if the Wolfpack football staff needs any help in the kicking game. While swimmers are getting more athletic every year, we don’t often hear about swimmers with hobbies that could potentially unlock legitimate opportunities in other sports. Turns out, Quintin is pretty dangerous with the right leg. The takeaway: high performers enjoy the process of trying,

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01:05:19

Cal Poly Swimming and Diving Suddenly Cut - Episode 234

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2025/03/14

Cal Poly just had its swimming & diving program cut. No other sport at the school was cut. The school president says it will take $25 million to reinstate the program. Current Cal Poly swimmers Jen Reiter and Sabrina Bell joined us to share about the situation they find themselves in, how it came to this, and to ask for help. While scholarships across the nation are being slashed, cutting entire programs is not what the sport needs. Plus, San Luis Obispo is awesome. The facilities are great (2x

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01:00:31

Claire Curzan Keeping Virginia Rolling - Episode 233

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2025/03/10

Chlorinated Claire Curzan comes clean about crushing kicks and coaches tricks. In her first year competing for UVA, Claire Curzan, an Olympic medalist and World Champion looks to be on peak form heading into the college championship season. Already an NCAA champion from her freshman season at Stanford, College Claire picked up right where she left off, breaking the NCAA record in the 200 backstroke in-season, building excitement for what may come at her first ACCs. The machine at Virginia keeps

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01:03:43

Chris Guiliano Wants To Be The World's Best...

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2025/03/04

If you bought $100 of Chris Guiliano stock in ~2021 and held onto it, you’d be a very rich person right now. The man of many freestyle talents has been on a rapid rise dropping chunks of time like he’s 10 years old en route to securing 3 individual spots on the Olympic team last summer in the 50-100-200, the first U.S. man to do so since the legend Matt Biondi. Under the radar, Chris developed at Notre Dame, but following the sanctions on the program is now a Texas Longhorn and already among the

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01:08:01

Leah Shackley Erika Pelaez NC State Episode 231

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2025/02/24

Fresh Wolfpack faces. Same Wolfpack speed. Leah Shackley and Erica Pelaez have been racing each other for a few years already wearing American flags on their cap. Now they are in college on the same team and thriving. Backstroke prowess runs deep in Raleigh, so it’s no surprise these backstroke standouts found their way to join the bearded baron Braden Holloway to etch their names in NC State lore, but both have skills beyond backstroke and have already shown through the dual meet season they are

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01:11:32

Camille Spink, Josephine Fuller, Tennessee Women -...

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2025/02/18

Fresh off of a Dual Meet Attendance Record and in season best times, Camille Spink and Josephine Fuller of the University of Tennessee join us for a pre-championship season update. After a tragic start to the 2023-2024 season with the loss of Coach Matt Kredich’s son, the team battled through various ups and downs, finishing fourth overall at the NCAA championship.This season, the Volunteer women are more united than ever, as they enter SECs and NCAAs with bigger goals than just attendance records

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01:03:34

Simone Manuel Superstardom Keeps Rising Episode 229

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2025/02/14

A Legend Among Us Simone Manual, one of the best swimmers of all-time joins us to talk about life, swimming, and giving back. An Olympic and World Champion and pioneering figure as the first black American woman to win Olympic gold in swimming, Simone has quite the CV. But she is charging on, having recently kicked off her season with some rust-busting, “off” events and is settling into her new training base in Austin with Bob Bowman.As one of the greatest “big moment” sprinters to ever stand

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45:27

Kuzey Tunçelli Fastest Teen Miler Ever Episode 228

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2025/02/11

The fastest teenager ever, Turkish distance phenom Kuzey Tuncelli is already an Olympic finalist and 2x World Junior Record holder in both the long and short course 1500m freestyles and a 2024 World Championship Bronze Medalist. What’s the secret to success this young? Kuzey Tuncelli is in love with the process. So much so that he is learning what he can improve, like sprinting, and incorporating the learnings into his program, while also assembling a true professional support staff of coaches,

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01:09:50

Cal's Lucas Henveaux and Robin Hanson Episode 227

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2025/02/07

Friends of the pod, the Cal Bears return, this time with a World Championship Bronze medalist and an NCAA Champion in Lucas Henveaux and Robin Hanson. Both elite freestylers with Olympic experience, Lucas and Robin share insights on the ‘24-’25 edition of Cal swimming that has seen 17-straight top 2 finishes at NCAAs, an unprecedented run of success. This year, the attention all seems to be on high profile hires and transfers at Texas and Indiana, and Cal is just fine with the attention being

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56:11

Stanford’s Aurora Roghair and Charlotte Hook Episode 226

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2025/02/04

Same tree, different branches. Stanford’s Aurora Roghair and Charlotte Hook join us for a mid-season update, where the two Cardinal stars are in very different places with their swimming. Aurora is coming off a stellar 2024 year of continuous personal bests, including throwing down some of the top times in the country in the fall as she looks to battle for the podiums in longer freestyle events at ACCs and NCAAs. With a different perspective, Charlotte Hook, a world championship medalist, talks

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01:01:22

Julian Smith on Breaking a Dressel Record and Florida...

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2025/01/31

Breaking a Caeleb Dressel record is a hell of a way to celebrate your final season as a swimmer. For Florida star Julian Smith, there may well be more accolades to come with the college championship season still to come. Coached by a former Gator great prior to his arrival in Gainesville, Julian Smith is a classic example of a not so highly touted recruit who bought into a system and soaked up the knowledge of great swimmers and coaches around him to show progress every year and now find himself the

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Jillian Cox Texas Distance Star Episode 224

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2025/01/28

Go long or go home. Distance freestyle phenom Jillian Cox is tearing it up this year with nation-leading times, Texas Longhorn school records, and a World Championship bronze medal as a mere redshirt freshman.Already a multi-time US National teamer, Austin native Jillian Cox is now leading a strong Texas distance freestyle contingent that looks to be an absolute weapon for the Longhorns coming into championship season as they aim to disrupt the SEC as the new team on the block and attempt to knock

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01:12:05

Jordan Crooks, Gui Caribe, Nikoli Blackman and Lamar...

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2025/01/24

A Social Kick Carnival. The boys from Tennessee joined us to chat fast swimming and share their journeys from Caribbean and Brazilian roots to end up on lethal relays together. Cayman's Jordan Crooks and Brazil's Gui Caribe are coming off a killer World Championships where they went 1-2 in the 50 and 2-3 in the 100 freestyles, including a world record for Jordan Crooks in the 50 free in a barrier breaking 19.90 as he became the first person to swim under 20 seconds.Bahamian Lamar and Trinidadian

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01:01:30

Noe Ponti - Chasing Fast Times & Mastering the Mental...

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2025/01/21

In this episode we’re joined by Swiss swimming sensation and butterfly specialist Noe Ponti. Noe just completed a short course season for the ages where he pummeled the 50m Butterfly World Record throughout the World Cup en route to the World Title and he also took down the record that meant the most to him - Caeleb Dressel’s 100m Butterfly World Record. This season is just what Noe needed to call 2024 a success, after 4th and 5th place finishes in Paris denied him medals at back to back Olympics

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01:01:29

Josh Liendo on Speed, Setbacks & Success Episode 221

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2025/01/17

Sneakily one of the fastest men to ever sprint, Canadian and Florida Gator Josh Liendo is coming off a career year in 2024. His sophomore campaign at UF included 3 individual event wins at NCAAs, along with leading the Gators to 2 relay wins, building on the already solid freshman year (100 free + 3 relay wins). Somehow that wasn’t enough to earn him a Swimmer of the Year, only topped by Leon Marchand with his record performances.Josh continued the momentum in Paris, earning a silver medal with his

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53:14

Jonny Kulow The Wyoming Freestyle Rocket Episode 220

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2025/01/10

The man, the myth, the legend: Jonny Kulow. We sat down with the ASU super sprinter and dug into his journey from a small town in Wyoming to become a freestyle rocket. We discuss his training secrets (or lack thereof!), his signature gym moves, and his favorite Wyoming State record.Plus, we get the inside scoop on the ASU-UofA rivalry, relive the thrilling double swim-off against Adam Cheney at Olympic Trials, and hear Jonny's predictions for the upcoming ASU season, including which underclassmen

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