Send us Fan Mail Tracy Slusser has coached three NCAA championship teams. She has also experienced a coaching culture that made having children feel incompatible with doing the job at the highest level. We talk about the expectations she absorbed early in her career, what happened when a fellow coach brought her child onto the deck at Nationals, and the changes Tracy wants to see—from emergency deck passes to better coverage when coaches take leave. Today, Tracy works with coaches on le...

In this GMM takeover of the SwimSwam podcast we have 3-time Pan Pacific Championships gold medalist, Katharine Berkoff. Berkoff is coming off a huge summer, sweeping her individual events at the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships with gold in the 50 back and 100 back, then adding another gold as part of Team USA’s 4x100 medley relay. Her 50 back was the headline swim. Berkoff ripped a 26.90, lowering her own American Record. In the 100 back, she touched first in 57.93, beating a stacked field that

🛒 Elsmore Swim Shop — ElsmoreSwim.com | Code SOCIALKICK for 20% off👕 Tall Slim Tees — TallSlimTees.com | Code SOCIALKICK for 20% off Support the Podcast: https://socialkickswim.com/shop World-class butterflyer Ilya Kharun joins the Social Kick podcast to talk about his switch from Canada to Team USA, racing Caeleb Dressel at nationals, and going 19.4 in the 50 fly SCY in practice. We talk about chasing sub-50 in the 100 fly, his underwater speed, NCAA format changes, the College Swimming

Send us Fan Mail Emma Levy swam competitively as a child, and since then has continued swimming either in the pool or in open water, depending what’s available. This year it finally occurred to her that for the purposes of open water swimming she is an adaptive athlete, so she will tackle future swim challenges with new strategies. She is a SwimMastery High Performance Coach. She supported Tracey Baumann as a thinking partner in creating the book The SwimMastery Way. As an Improve...

Luka Mijatovic is a newly minted Longhorn, American record holder in the 1000 free, seven-time gold medalist at this year's Junior Pan Pacs and the youngest male to win a national title other than Michael Phelps. The Northern California swimmer joins Katie Hoff Anderson to explain why he committed early to Texas to train under Bob Bowman, why he felt ready to leave his club team now, and how he is setting himself up to make the Olympic team in LA. Luka walks through the summer that got him h...

This week we go behind the scenes and on deck as we hear about the recent British team's attempt to take the channel world record.George Taplin world record holder, international athlete and all round nice guy makes his second appearance on the podcast.Away from the channel attempt we hear about George's incredible swims up in the Lake District and his take and knowledge on attempting to plan a challenge like this.Enjoy!Donate here:

Ten years ago, Lise Thorne turned up to her first swimming lesson able to do exactly one stroke, and desperate to avoid the other. Since then she's built Walking This Way into a community of 100,000 followers by talking honestly about midlife, reinvention and everything the brochures leave out, but front crawl was the one thing she'd quietly dodged for her entire adult life. In this episode of In At The Deep End, host and swim coach Salim Ahmed sits down with Lise to work out what changed:

Nick Parkes shares the remarkable story of his return to swimming after suffering a cardiac arrest at the National Open Water Championships in 2023. Clinically dead for around 20 minutes, Nick has since dedicated a series of fundraising challenges to the air ambulance service that helped save his life. Now he has taken on his biggest challenge yet: swimming the full 22.5 miles of Loch Ness. Nick completed the epic swim in the dark, cold waters of the loch with fellow Masters swimmer and docto...

The Rottnest Channel Swim is one of Western Australia's most iconic sporting events, attracting thousands of swimmers, paddlers, skippers, volunteers and supporters each year. But behind every successful crossing is a huge effort to balance tradition, participation and swimmer safety.In this episode, I speak with Will Rollo, President of the Rottnest Channel Swim Association, about his own journey in open water swimming and what it means to help steward one of the world's largest open water

Send us Fan Mail What is a developmental coach actually trying to finish? Longhorn Aquatics head coach Mike Laitala joins Chris DeSantis to discuss why producing fast young swimmers is not the same as preparing athletes for long-term success. They explore the risks of early specialization, the difference between developing strength and simply “lifting,” and why athletes can advance beyond their own developmental awareness. Mike also explains how he prepares swimmers for college, another coach...

On the Deadfoot Diver Podcast, host Curtis interviews Canadian diving pioneer Doug Elsey, who shares how Jacques Cousteau inspired him to start diving in the 1960s, earn early NAUI certification, and use commercial diving to pay for engineering and ocean engineering studies. Elsey recounts joining Dr. Joe MacInnis’s Sublimnos underwater habitat project in Tobermory for $15 a week, running public and research programs, working with National Geographic photography, and meeting figures such as Philippe

The SwimSwam Breakdown is joined today by Elvis Burroughs and Dax Hill, AKA Night Swim, to discuss the first two matches of the College Swimming League.

Are you logging thousands of yards each week only to watch your pace stay frozen in time? Most masters swimmers and triathletes fall into the same trap: they try to engineer their stroke into looking smooth and effortless, yet they find themselves stuck grinding out laps at a single, unchanging speed. In this episode, we sit down with Brenton Ford, the mastermind behind Effortless Swimming. Having coached thousands of athletes worldwide—from beginners to elite triathletes and national champio...

🛒 Elsmore Swim Shop — ElsmoreSwim.com | Code SOCIALKICK for 20% off👕 Tall Slim Tees — TallSlimTees.com | Code SOCIALKICK for 20% off Support the Podcast: https://socialkickswim.com/shop Former Stanford swim coach Tracy Slusser joins Social Kick to discuss her career pivot from coaching Olympic athletes like Katie Ledecky to launching a leadership coaching business for coaches. She opens up about women in coaching, parental leave in sports, work-life balance on the pool deck, and her push for

Cam McEvoy holds the 50 freestyle world record at 20.88 and is the reigning Olympic and world champion in the event. In a normal 50 training block, he swims about 1.5K a week. Fresh off Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow, the Australian sprinter joins Katie Hoff Anderson to explain the gym-first, low-volume approach he built after Tokyo, why it runs against so much of how swimming has always trained, and why he believes the sport has not even seen its ceiling for strength yet. Cam walks thro...

This week TWF has the pleasure of welcoming CEO of the Swimming Teachers' Association, Dave Candler onto the podcast. Dave has spent his career in the world of aquatics and has most recently just reached a decade in his current role at the helm of the STA. Throughout the episode we get into Dave's journey within in the world of aquatics and how things have changed while he's been in the role. We discuss how great being a swimming teacher is and the power of swimming.

This Deadfoot Diver Podcast episode features cave diver and rescue/recovery specialist Edd Sorenson, who explains how he discovered cave diving in the 1990s and became known as the person called when recoveries are deemed impossible. He recounts early IUCRR involvement, his first unexpected recovery at Ginnie Springs, and multiple high-risk recoveries and rescues, including a difficult Dominican Republic operation and the Tennessee cave rescue where a diver survived 27 hours in an air pocket

After an eight-year break from competitive swimming, Tom Cohoon has made a remarkable return to sprint swimming. Inspired by watching his younger brother Alex compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Tom took on board lessons from the world’s best sprinters - and he has since broken a British Masters record in the 50m freestyle and found himself lining up alongside Olympic swimmer Alex at National Championship finals. And the most intriguing part? Tom is doing it while working full-time - chasing ...

Dr Andrew Lyttle has spent more than three decades helping athletes and coaches better understand how humans move through the water. From his PhD research on drag and swimming efficiency at UWA, through nearly 20 years at WAIS, to his current role as National Performance Support Lead for Biomechanics at the AIS, Andrew has been at the forefront of swimming biomechanics in Australia.In this episode, we explore the science of drag, why efficient swimming should feel easier rather than harder and

Today on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we are discussing the Asian Games so far, UVA's SCM Pro Am Meet in October, and Shaine Casas coaching high school.