Category: USA Swimming

USA Swimming will host a Diversity Summit at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs from November 12-15, 2009. The focus of this year’s Diversity Summit will be on constructive ways to impact diversity efforts in your LSC.
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Splash selected submissions from Michael Lyn and Kelly Indahl as the Sept.-Oct. issue’s “Your Photo” winners. To see more of “Your Photos,” go to our SwimCam Gallery.
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Over a thousand talented Masters coaches around the country are ready and willing to help you reach your goals. This week, we’ll discuss some easy pointers to help you seek out and work with the right coach for you.
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The Longhorn served his country and looked fine in 2009.
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University of Texas head men’s swimming and diving coach Eddie Reese has been selected as the 2009 American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Coach of the Year after helping five American swimmers to gold medals at the recent FINA World Championships in Rome.
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USA Swimming’s executive director Chuck Wielgus received recognition Thursday at the U.S. Aquatic Sports Convention for his vision and leadership in the area of diversity and inclusion in the sport of swimming.
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Last July, when the FINA Congress voted 168–6 to oppose the recommendation of FINA’s president and executive director and ban the controversial “technical suits” that had wreaked havoc with the world record books, Executive Director Cornel Marculescu was quick to issue a warning. “We will not,” he stated emphatically, “eliminate the records that have been established by swimmers using the new suits.”
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With over 30 years of coaching experience, Carl Cederquist has his coaching style refined to an art.
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Last night in primetime on ABC, Shaq stepped up to the blocks in Baltimore and showed he could swim. Not particularly fast or steamlined (though given his competition, there’s not a dry land mortal on earth who’d look fast), but this mountain of a man showed off a fully credible freestyle, raced hard, and helped lift swimming another notch higher in the popular culture.
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A start not only begins the race, but often sets the tone for it, especially during shorter distances where a well-executed start is not just helpful, but often necessary for winning. But don’t let the starting blocks intimidate you.
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