Dear Swimming Community,

Recently I was featured on several of Floswimming.com’s videos while training the sprinters here at Auburn. One of those videos, “The Main Set”, has elicited over 170 responses. Because of the popularity of that video as well as the comments made below it, I feel obligated to you, my fellow swimmers and coaches, to explain a few things about how I coach and what was seen on that... read more

My post on Giorgio Lamberti got me thinking about other swimmers who held the world record for a long period of time but for the most part garnered little attention stateside. It occurred to me that nearly contemporary to Lamberti there was a woman who held the 200 free world record for an even longer period of time. Although unlike Lamberti she did medal in the event over a career that spanned four olympics, she... read more