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The Swim Brief

A swimming podcast featuring natural conversations about the sport. Chris DeSantis brings the poolside conversation to the podcast form.

sports & recreation college & high school

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Samantha Barany, Executive Director CSCAA

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2025/02/24

I’m speaking at the CSCAA annual meeting! I brought on Sam Barany to discuss the event and all the major issues facing college swimming.

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Kim Dietrichsen: Coaching Coaches

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2025/02/17

Kim Dietrichsen, Head of Coaching in Danish Swimming, joins to talk how he became a “coach of coaches” and trade knowledge.

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Misja Klevstig

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2025/02/10

In Sweden I spent three hours talking to a guy I’d just met, then I invited him to come on the podcast. Listen and find out why I found Misja Klevstig so interesting.

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Jakub Maly

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2025/02/03

Jakub Maly, former international competitor for Austria, Minnesota student-athlete and fellow recovering coach, joins the podcast to discuss life, family, and coaching.

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Mike Peyrebrune

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2025/01/27

Mike Peyrebrune, sport scientist and high performance coach at Loughborough University, joins to talk about applying sport science.

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Positive Psychology in the Work Place

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2025/01/21

My wife and Chairman of the Board joins to discuss some concepts of Positive Psychology in the workplace.

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Reviewing WADC

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2025/01/14

Hot off an awesome weekend with coaches, I give my review of the weekend for posterity.

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Herbie Behm

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2025/01/06

The coach of the defending Men’s Division 1 National Champions joins to talk about Short Course Worlds, team culture and his process for constant learning.

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Mid-Major Coaching in the House Era

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2024/12/30

Neil Yost, the coach of the Men’s and Women’s teams at Mount Saint Mary’s. He shares his unique perspective on coaching in what he calls the “Mid-House” era.

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Nico Messer: Double Duty

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2024/12/16

Nico Messer returns to talk juggling coaching a team and working with Swiss Army athletes and share insights on AI from his recently completed computer science degree. Sign up for proswimworkouts with the promo code cdswimcoach.

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Ricki Clausen: Scandinavian Athletes

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2024/12/09

Ricki Clausen joins to talk about the development of Scandinavian Athletes, a model for directly funding elite swimmers.

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Bill Dorenkott

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2024/12/02

The Head Coach of Swimming and Diving from THE Ohio State University joins me for a wide ranging conversation.

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Thank You Readers

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2024/11/26

In the spirit of the season, thank you to all the readers of this blog (and those that listen to my podcast as well). To claim that I write or record purely out of a desire to give wouldn’t be correct. The truth is, doing both helps me as least as much as it helps my audience.

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Thorbjörn Holmberg

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2024/11/25

The director of swimming at Poseidon Swim Club in Lund, Sweden joins to discuss the upcoming WADC conference, the Swedish Center for Aquatic Research, and inviting himself onto the pool deck at UCLA.

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What's Next in College Swimming

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2024/11/18

Trying to answer some unanswerable questions.

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Science, Art and Psychology ft. Glenn Neufeld

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2024/11/11

Eternal friend of the podcast Glenn Neufeld to talks about another way to classify the skills of coaches.

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Ashley Eckermann Returns

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2024/11/04

Ashley Eckermann of Maximize the Mind gets invited back to talk ego, confrontation and mental skills that go beyond sports performance.

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Katie Davis

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2024/10/28

Katie Davis, an accountant for athletic departments through her work at James Moore & Co, gives insight into the post-House settlement landscape.

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Greg Meehan

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2024/10/21

Greg Meehan talks Olympic coaching, Torri Huske’s magical year and harmonizing your coaching and personal life.

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Nathan Lavery

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2024/10/14

Nathan Lavery and I talk Georgia Tech job opening, dogs and Brett Hawke’s Sprint Revolution.

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