Todd DeSorbo on A2B

 

 

Episode LXI features Team USA head women's coach Todd DeSorbo.

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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.

 

Quote of the Day

 

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can

enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men.

James Arthur Baldwin

 

Jeff Raker

 

Swimmer, official, pastor, and leadership coach Jeff Raker joined us on A2B.

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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.

via Wikipedia

Donald Robert Perry "Don" Marquis

 

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

 

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

John Leonard, Part II

 

We discussed doping in our sport on Episode LIX, a.k.a. John Leonard, Part II.

 

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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

 

Quote of the Day

 

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no

meaning, and yet I'm happy.  I can't figure

it out.  What am I doing right?

Charles Monroe Schulz

 

Quote of the Day

 

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

via Wikiquote

Finley Peter Dunne

 

Quote of the Day

 

Two paradoxes are better than one;

they may even suggest a solution.

Edward Teller

Quote of the Day

 

Barbarians always think of themselves

as the bringers of civilization.

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer

 

Mr. ASCA, John Leonard

 

We had a very interesting and wide-ranging chat w/John Leonard on Swim Talk A2B.

 

Listen to Episode LVIII, a.k.a. John Leonard, Part I here

00:01 – Disclaimer & banter

01:52 – ASCA mentoring

03:41 – Previewing Parts I & II

04:42 – Introducing John Leonard

05:06 – Syracuse Chargers:  Zero to Powerhouse

08:15 – Favorites

09:28 – ASCA Executive Director

11:35 – SwimAmerica

15:35 – Coach-owned clubs

17:08 – Coach certification & Walt Schlueter

22:10 – The Suit Wars

25:49 – Organization growth

30:00 – …but wait!  There’s more!

30:26 – More ASCA mentoring & membership