What-a-Crowd!!
Check out this mixed relay:
Saturday, November 02, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
Quote of the Day
If you call failures experiments, you can put them
in your resume and claim them as achievements.
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Mason Cooley
Friday, October 25, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
Orinda Aquatics
Don & Ron Heidary of Orinda Aquatics joined us on Swim Talk A2B.
Listen to Episode LXII here
00:01 – Disclaimer & banter
03:05 – Chuck Warner books
04:25 – Introducing Ron & Don Heidary
05:05 – Making character education work
08:12 – Personal connections
12:35 – From rock pile to cathedral
16:33 – Orinda Aquatics staffing
17:43 – Does culture match mission?
20:52 – Eight reasons why teenagers drink
22:12 – Facility
23:20 – Feeding the program
24:40 – Virtual Club Championships
26:11 – Getting their start
28:32 – Work ethic
31:11 – Trust
34:49 – Developing leaders & coaches
38:02 – Self-discipline
40:00 – Favorites
42:05 – What’s life w/o swimming?
45:28 – Working in some fun
47:20 – Pressure cooker
48:10 – Finding the right fit
48:48 – Culture of caring
51:38 – Wrapping it up
52:38 – Check program notes
Quote of the Day
God will not look you over for medals
degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Elbert Green Hubbard
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Aquatics Jobs
Texas School for the Deaf assistant swim coach
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC (Houston) aquatics director
Villa Sport (The Woodlands) assistant swim team coach
Town of Flower Mound aquatics coordinator
Metro Aquatics (McKinney) assistant coaches - Jamie Stults
Metro Aquatics (Allen) assistant coaches - Caroline Stanek
Quote of the Day
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways,
and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Todd DeSorbo on A2B
Episode LXI features Team USA head women's coach Todd DeSorbo.
Listen here
00:01 - Disclaimer
00:20 – Safety or Convenience?
01:16 – Banter
03:15 – Compensation
04:13 – Introducing Todd DeSorbo
04:51 – Splitting time?
06:21 – Support at UVA
09:32 – Accolades
11:40 – Building the roster
14:01 – The Salisbury Post
15:00 – Contending for titles
16:36 – Sprinter Ryan Held
18:38 – Jaw-dropping workouts
20:50 – The Salisbury Hornets
22:01 – Coaching IM-ers
24:36 – Nicky Rosenbluth
26:46 – Numbers cruncher
32:01 – The new ACC
34:45 – What about the men?
37:02 – Titles to Titleist
40:10 – Powerhouse schedule
41:45 – Alternate meet formats
47:00 – Wrapping it up
47:39 – Looking ahead
Quote of the Day
Face reality as it is, not as it
was or as you wish it to be.
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Quote of the Day
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can
enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men.
James Arthur Baldwin
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Jeff Raker
Listen here
00:01 – Disclaimer
01:22 – Water Safety
PSA
02:30 – Introducing Jeff
Raker
04:00 – Jeff’s road to
Doha ‘24
06:46 – Level Up
Leadership
08:50 – Question
for Today
10:40 – Leaders who
listen & learn
12:33 – Now That’s
a Great Question
14:35 – L.I.S.T.E.N.
17:44 – Questioning
strategies
21:05 – Strengths
& weaknesses
22:50 – Fragile
athletes
24:49 – Fears: Natural & Learned
28:31 – Compass vs.
Calendar
31:35 – Rest,
recovery, & reflection
34:38 – Self-care
38:11 – Coaches’
Academies
42:47 – Warming up
with Doc
43:33 – Reaching out
to Jeff
47:20 – Wrapping it up
Quote of the Day
A pessimist is a person who has had
to listen to too many optimists.
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Donald Robert Perry "Don" Marquis
Monday, October 07, 2024
Jobs Update
YMCA of Greater San Antonio senior aquatics director
City of Midland Aquatics (COM) executive director
Quote of the Day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the
unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Thursday, October 03, 2024
Quote of the Day
You can always count of the Americans to do the
right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sunday, September 29, 2024
John Leonard, Part II
Listen here
00:01 – Disclaimer
01:06 – How to be a Great Swim Parent
02:30 – Part II Preview
02:58 – PED’s Panel
04:59 – How to “game” the system
08:04 – David Howman
09:00 – Phony testing schemes
10:10 – Performance anomalies
11:33 – Microdosing
13:26 – Systematic failure
14:01 – Losing faith in WADA
15:06 – Athletics Integrity Unit
17:48 – Dr. Lothar Kipke
20:48 – Government-sponsored programs
22:06 – ’96 Atlanta Games
25:51 – From FINA to World Aquatics
28:15 – USADA
30:37 – FINA buying votes
33:15 – What hasn’t changed?
35:24 – Coaching age groupers
38:09 – Mount Rushmore of swim coaching
44:17 – Wrapping it up