

Inside with Brett Hawke
Brett Hawke
Take an intimate look inside the minds of swimming's highest achievers with one of the world's best swim coaches, Brett Hawke.
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Oct 22, 2021 • 58min
#201 Coleman Stewart, fastest ever, left off USA Swimming SC Worlds team
Coleman Stewart is a professional swimmer for the Cali Condors. He grew up in York, PA swimming for Erik Posegay at North Baltimore Aquatic Club. He developed his underwater kick at NC State with Braden Holloway and became NCAA Champion in the 100 Backstroke.
Most recently, he broke the World Record in the 100 SCM Backstroke in a regular season ISL meet in Naples, Italy. His goal was to show up in better shape than most and win a lot of money.
His freestyle is pretty good, too. Coleman finished 8th in the 100 Free at US Olympic Trials.
And, of course, his mustache game is strong.
Get some mustache merch here.
Enjoy!
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hello Coleman Stewart
04:00 100 Back World Record
06:00 Pro Athlete, Pro Mindset
10:55 Mapping out the money
12:45 No SC World Champs?
17:00 $50,000
20:00 Underwater kicking
27:50 How do you get better?
29:50 47 100 SCM Backstroke
31:00 Cali Condors
32:20 Ryan Murphy Coleman Stewart
36:00 ISL Season 3 Playoffs
37:45 48.5 100 Free LCM
42:00 Swimming Progression
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#swimming #usaswimming #fina

Oct 18, 2021 • 38min
#200 Tatjana Schoenmaker, 200 Breaststroke Olympic Champion and World Record Holder
Tatjana Schoenmaker won the 200 Breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics in World Record time. The South African became the first woman to ever break 2:19.
Her goal heading into the Games was to make a Final.
Tatjana walks Brett through all her thoughts and feelings from her Olympic learning experience.
She is coached by Rocco Meiring, who was on Episode #191.
Enjoy!
03:30 Life after Gold
05:45 Penny Heyns
07:00 Rocco Meiring
09:15 Did you expect to win?
11:15 Missed Olympics by .01
14:00 100 Breaststroke
24:00 200 Breaststroke
26:30 Embracing Moment
28:00 Breaststroke technique
34:30 ISL
35:10 Matt Sates
36:20 Practice Schedule
37:15 Paris 2024
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SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
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#swimming #tokyo2020 #southafrica

Oct 14, 2021 • 1h 12min
#199 Tyler Clary, Olympic Champ, opens up about heart surgery
At the 2012 London Olympics, Tyler Clary won the 200 Backstroke.
Nine years later, he underwent successful open heart surgery to fix a leaky aortic valve. For every pint of blood his heart tried to pump, ½ a pint flowed backwards.
He won Olympic gold with a heart operating at only 70% efficiency.
Unbelievable.
Enjoy!
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD LIVE: Create an interactive heat sheet. Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
04:00 Heart murmur
08:30 Aortic valve replacement
16:50 Asymptomatic
22:00 Open heart surgery
25:00 Sternum
27:30 Pain
32:00 Cardiac output
34:30 Brain fog
35:00 Prognosis
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#swimming #swimcoach #olympics

Oct 13, 2021 • 50min
Dive Inside LIVE with Tom Shields: 50 Fly AR, training underwater, SC Worlds
Tom Shields is the 2009 Huntington Beach Pier Swim Champion. Also, a 2x Olympic Champion for the United States of America.
He joins us LIVE from Budapest to talk about breaking the American Record in the Men's 50 Fly this past week at the FINA World Cup Series. This was a best time for him by a few tenths.
We talk about training underwater, being addicted to racing, his love for short course, and being left off of several SC World Championship teams based on LCM qualifications. Coleman Stewart, the fastest man in human history in the 100 SCM Backstroke, will not be competing for Team USA at World Championships. Neither will Beata Nelson, the current ISL Season 3 money leader.
Enjoy.
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SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD LIVE: Create an interactive heat sheet. Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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#swimming #swimcoach #huntingtonbeach

Oct 11, 2021 • 57min
#198 Marko Malvela, 5x Finnish Olympic swim coach, talks body types, sixth sense, & over training
Marko Malvela is a 5x Olympic Swimming Coach from Finland. He currently coaches 3 of the 5 Finnish swimmers that competed in Tokyo. This includes Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (been together for 16 years), Mimosa Jallow, and Fanny Teijonsalo (who has been a guest on Dive Inside LIVE). Marko's group also includes Finnish National teamers Teemu Vuroela and Susanne Hirvonen.
Marko is an expert in Biomechanics and Sport Psychology. He talks about grouping athletes into four different body types, coaches having a sixth sense, and over training.
"Free yourself from the shackles of your mind." - Marko Malvela
Enjoy!
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hello from Finland!
05:30 Marko Malvela Bio
08:30 Jani Sievinen
09:20 Talent development
11:30 Swimming in Finland
13:50 Learning in Australia
15:30 "Free yourself from the shackles of your mind"
17:45 Is the grass greener?
20:00 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen
22:15 Tony Shaw
28:00 4 Body Types
31:15 Developing a Sixth Sense
34:55 Maximized Training vs. Overload
40:30 Schedules
41:15 Studies
47:00 Brett's Sprint Group
52:30 Paris Olympics
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD LIVE: Create an interactive heat sheet. Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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#swimming #swimcoach #finland

Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 31min
#197 Jacco Verhaeren on his career path, management style, and leadership
Jacco Verhaeren was just recently appointed the High Performance Director for French swimming leading into the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
He spent the last year helping the German Swimming Federation and the 8 prior to that leading Swimming Australia.
And before that, the Dutchman coached Pieter van den Hoogenband, Inge de Bruijn, and Ranomi Kromowidjojo.
Enjoy!
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hello Jacco Verhaeren
04:00 German Swimming
05:00 French Swimming
08:00 Early Coaching Career
12:45 Coaching Pieter
15:45 Scientific Side of Swimming
18:30 Kirsten Vlieghuis
20:45 Jan Olbrecht
21:45 Young & Successful
27:00 Moving Off Deck
31:30 Pieter van den Hoogenband
35:00 Sydney Olympics
36:40 Track Start
40:00 200 Free Surprise Win
41:00 47 100 Free
42:15 Psychological Performance
47:00 Nike Swim
49:15 Ranomi Kromowidjojo
54:00 Leaving Ranomi
59:00 Dean Boxall
01:02:00 Rohan Taylor
01:03:15 Swimming Australia
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD LIVE: Create an interactive heat sheet. Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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#swimming #swimcoach #netherlands

Oct 7, 2021 • 36min
#196 David Curtiss on the new NIL frontier, signing with TYR & GoSwim
David Curtiss, USA National teamer and NC State freshman, announced today that he has inked deals with TYR and GoSwim. David finished 6th at 2021 US Olympic Trials in the 50 Free. He is one of Team USA's up and coming sprint studs.
He joins Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel, Michael Andrew, Beefy T Shields, and more as TYR sponsored athletes.
GoSwim, created by Glenn Mills, is a video library of the world's best swimmers teaching you the best stroke technique and drills to make you a better swimmer.
David Curtiss also shares his race strategy in the 50 Freestyle. He breaks it down in 4 components.
Enjoy!
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hello David Curtiss
04:30 NC State
06:45 2021 Olympic Trials
11:45 Best mental state
14:00 50 Free Race Strategy
16:00 Start & Underwaters
20:00 TYR
21:30 NIL changes
23:45 GoSwim
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THE MAGIC 5: Custom fitted goggles that are tailor-made for your exact face. You shouldn't feel you are wearing goggles. Use code BRETTHAWKE20 at checkout to receive 20% off.
SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD LIVE: Create an interactive heat sheet. Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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#swimming #tyr #ncstate

Oct 6, 2021 • 48min
Dive Inside LIVE with MATT SATES!
South African teenager Matthew Sates joins us on the LIVE show to discuss his WJR breaking swims in Berlin!
At the first stop of the FINA World Cup in Berlin, Matt Sates broke 2x SCM World Junior Records: the Men's 200 IM (23.90/28.45/32.21/26.89) and 200 Freestyle (23.58/25.93/25.63/25.51), breaking Daiya Seto and Kliment Kolesnikov's records.
This summer, at the Tokyo Olympics, Sates placed 13th in the 200 IM and 32nd in the 100 Fly. He swims for Wayne Riddin at Seals Swimming Club in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He has committed to swim for the University of Georgia.
Brett and Nate also discuss Clarie Curzan's decision to swim at Stanford, Femke Heemskerk retiring at the end of the ISL season, and our visit to UVA.
Enjoy!
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD LIVE: Create an interactive heat sheet. Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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#swimming #southafrica #fwc2021

Oct 5, 2021 • 52min
UVA Swimming: Kate Douglass, Matt Brownstead, Alex Walsh, Matt King, Paige Madden, Sean Conway, Emma Weyant
Last week we went LIVE at the UVA Orange vs. Blue intrasquad meet. We got to sit down with Head Coach Todd DeSorbo and talk to some of the team's leaders, including alumni and Olympian, Paige Madden.
Meet Matt Brownstead, Matt King, Noah Nichols, and Sean Conway on the Men's side.
Meet Alex Walsh, Kate Douglass, and Emma Weyant on the Women's side.
If you missed the live stream, it is on our YouTube channel. Anna Keating KILLED the commentating at the beginning of the show. As did 3rd year swimmer, Jack Walker.
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD LIVE: Create an interactive heat sheet. Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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#swimming #uva #wahoowa

Oct 4, 2021 • 58min
#195 Laura Sogar goes from NCAA Champion to Stand Up Comedian
Laura Sogar didn't make the Olympics in swimming, but does have the guts to get on stage and tell jokes. The 2013 NCAA Champion in the Women's 200 Breast for the University of Texas, Sogar no longer swims but she does make people laugh.
She does two weekly podcasts, both with plenty of humor.
Check them out here:
She Does Stand Up, Too?
Risque Business News
Follow her on Instagram.
00:00 Swimming Sponsors 05:00 Stand Up Comedy 08:30 Bluefish, Rhode Island 12:30 Chemical Engineering 14:30 Podcasting 17:45 Love laughing 19:30 Improv Comedy 22:30 Swimming is Heartbreaking 23:45 Who you are 26:00 Boyfriend in comedy 27:40 Leveling Up 33:45 Behind the blocks vs. Getting on stage 38:00 Swimming similarities 41:45 Very few women 46:00 Writing jokes 49:30 Watching film 51:00 Future goals 54:20 Olympic Trials show
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SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
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#swimming #standup