

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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Sep 30, 2021 • 1h 26min
Ryan Murphy answers questions about Rylov, Russia, the ISL, and making money in swimming
Ryan Murphy brought home 3 more Olympic medals from Japan this summer, each one a different color. After taking an extensive break enjoying his friends and family, he's joining back up with the LA Current in Eindhoven for the Playoffs of the ISL.
Brett caught up with Murph LIVE on YouTube. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the channel.
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#iswimleague #swimming #olympics

Sep 30, 2021 • 1h 14min
#194 Greg Bennett: A Triathlon Life
Greg Bennett is a 2x Australian Olympian (2004, 2008) and former professional triathlete for nearly 30 years. Greg has competed in over 500 triathlons winning the ITU World Series twice. He is the host of, The Greg Bennett Show, a podcast focused on triathlon.
Greg has a strong understanding of the science behind training, which you will hear in this interview. Another Australian, another physiology focused nerd. Brett, being a novice to triathlon, asks a lot of simple questions that you probably have, too.
Triathlon became an NCAA sport in 2014. There are now 37 universities with NCAA Triathlon teams. Many swimmers have been able to transition over into triathlon. Andy Potts from Michigan and Matt Chrabot from George Mason come to mind.
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#triathlon #olympics #australia

Sep 27, 2021 • 1h 39min
#193 Eddie Reese the GOAT
Eddie Reese is the Head Coach of the Men's Swimming & Diving team at the University of Texas. He arrived in Austin, circa 1978, after 6 seasons at the helm of Auburn University. Since then, the Men's Swimming & Diving team at the University of Texas has won forty-two (42) straight Conference Championships and amassed fifteen (15) NCAA Championships.
Some of Eddie's swimmers include Bill Forrester, Rick Carey, Doug Gjertsen, Shaun Jordan, Neil Walker, Josh Davis, Nate Dusing, Ian Crocker, Brendan Hansen, Aaron Peirsol, Garrett Weber-Gale, Joseph Schooling, and Townley Haas.
"It's not a job. It's a lifestyle." - Eddie Reese on being a swim coach
Enjoy!
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hello Eddie Reese
04:30 Coming Back
06:00 Coaching Lifestyle
08:00 Sustained Success
09:30 Discipline
10:45 Have kids changed?
14:25 One Step Ahead
17:30 Before Texas
19:35 Rowdy Gaines
21:10 Bill Forrester
22:00 3 Reese brothers drown
25:18 Weak Stroke
26:45 Spin Drill
28:00 Breaststrokers Flutter Kick
30:12 Big, Strong, In Shape
33:45 Neil Walker
35:00 America First
37:54 Aaron Peirsol
39:45 Ian Crocker
40:55 Brendan Hansen
41:50 Weight training
45:00 Pressure to Change?
46:00 Eddie asks for NOTHING
47:30 Weekly Schedule
49:15 Art + Science
54:15 Fly Kick on Back
57:05 Kris Kubick
01:01:50 Self Evaluation
01:04:00 Advice
01:06:45 Nate Dusing
01:08:15 After Eddie
01:11:00 Successor
01:14:00 Scholarships
01:18:00 Intersquad
01:20:00 Winning Team
01:22:40 Austin Staab
01:23:15 Jo Schooling
01:23:40 Never rushed
01:25:45 No Secret Sauce
01:29:00 Hate to Lose
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#swimming #usaswimming #texas

Sep 23, 2021 • 1h 7min
#192 Wyatt Collins talks Texas
Wyatt Collins is the Assistant Coach of the Men's Swimming & Diving Team at the University of Texas.
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#swimming #collegeswimming #texas

Sep 20, 2021 • 1h 15min
#191 South African coaching legend Rocco Meiring
Rocco Meiring is an Olympic gold medal winning swim coach from South Africa. He coaches Tatjana Schoenmaker, the Tokyo Olympic Champion and the fastest woman in the history of the world in the Women's 200 Breaststroke LCM (2:18.95). Tatjana's training partner, Kaylene Corbett, came 6th in that same race.
Prior to this, Coach Rocco was already a legend. In 1997, he became South Africa's first National Coaching Director at the University of Pretoria -- he is still at the University today. His impact on swimming in South Africa is second to none.
Enjoy!
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hello Rocco Meiring
05:20 University of Pretoria
08:00 Altitude effect
10:50 University program
13:20 Coaching 100 Kids
15:30 No complaints
17:05 Keeping elite athletes
19:59 Principles of Coaching
22:40 Graham Hill
22:58 Experiment
27:35 Adaptation
29:30 Communication
32:40 Kaylene Corbett
39:00 Kathie Wickstrand
41:45 Tatjana Schoenmaker
55:30 200 Breast World Record
01:00:15 Olympic Final nerves
01:02:45 Losing the 100
01:05:30 Bob Bowman
01:08:20 Funding
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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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#southafrica #swimming #tokyo2020

Sep 16, 2021 • 1h 28min
#190 NC State Head Coach Braden Holloway reflects on 10 years leading Wolfpack
Braden Holloway is the Head Coach of NC State Swimming & Diving. This summer, he celebrated his 10th anniversary leading the Wolfpack.
NC State has become the cream of the crop in the ACC. Eight times Braden has been named ACC Coach of the Year and eight times they've won ACC team titles. The Wolfpack has produced 7 individual NCAA Champions as well as 6 National Champion relay teams.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ryan Held won an Olympic gold medal as part of Team USA's 4x100 Freestyle Relay. Coleman Stewart just recently broke the WR in the 100 Back SCM swimming for the Cali Condors.
Braden and his wife, Mary Mittendorf, both swam at NC State. They have 4 kids.
Enjoy!
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Post Trials, Pre College
05:15 Tied to the job?
06:30 Leading NC State
10:15 Think Bigger
11:30 Assistant to Head Coach
16:30 Selecting staff
22:00 Marc Bernardino
24:00 Fundraising
26:40 Recruiting
33:00 Coleman Stewart
38:30 Coach Athlete Trust
41:00 Developing the underwater kick
41:45 Body kicker or Core kicker
43:30 Matt Martelli
48:10 Charlie Higgins
49:20 Kicking with fins
54:00 No breathers
56:05 Bloody eye
57:48 Coaching Men & Women
01:03:50 Todd DeSorbo
01:11:30 Validation
01:15:00 Family Man
01:22:20 Writing Workouts
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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!
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#ncstate #collegeswimming #swimming

Sep 15, 2021 • 46min
Dive Inside LIVE with David Marsh & Abbey Weitzeil
The LA Current are fresh off ISL Match 5 looking towards Match 8 in just a few days. We talk everything LA Current with superstar sprinter Abbey Weitzeil and Head Coach David Marsh.
We talk about...
How the ISL has helped so many lesser known swimmers level up by giving them an opportunity to be a professional. What it has done for global swimming comradery and friendships -- the LA Current have swimmers from 18 different countries.
Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas
Ingrid Wilm
Vlad Bukhov
Imogen Clark
Zoe Baker
Recruiting Chinese swimmers
On the podcast this week...Tom Dean and Braden Holloway
Heading to Austin, Texas to talk to Eddie Reese
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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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#iswimleague #lacurrent #swimming

Sep 13, 2021 • 53min
#189 Tom Dean the 200 Free Olympic Champion
Tom Dean overcame two bouts of COVID to win the 200 Freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics beating out compatriot Duncan Scott and Brazil's Fernando Scheffer. He added a 2nd gold as a part of Great Britain's 4x200 Free Relay win.
Tom trains with BFF Jimmy Guy (Episode 83) under Dave McNulty at British Swimming’s National Centre Bath. His age group coach was Paul Lloyd.
Enjoy!
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hello & Congrats
05:00 Facts about Red Heads
07:15 Tom's family
08:00 NCAA recruiting trips
09:20 University of Bath
11:00 Dave McNulty
15:20 Jimmy Guy
17:30 2x COVID
21:10 Natural talent?
23:15 Sister Connie
24:50 Shift from IM to Free
26:40 Ian Thorpe
28:55 Watching the greats
30:25 Being a contender
32:00 Duncan Scott
33:00 David Popovici
35:50 Paul Biedermann's 200 Free World Record
38:20 Holding 52's
40:25 Head games
42:15 4x200 Free Relay
46:40 ISL
49:52 The Cork
51:00 Paris Olympics
52:00 Peak Weekly Schedule
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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!
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#britishswimming #swimming #tokyo2020

Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 22min
#188 Fred Vergnoux, 5x Olympic swim coach
Fred Vergnoux is the new technical director of CN Metropole de Las Palmas of Gran Canaria leaving his head coaching position at the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN). For the last 11 years he has coached Mireia Belmonte, winner of the Women's 200 Fly at the Rio Olympics. Some of his other swimmers including Alena Popchanka (Fred's wife!), Amaury Leveaux, and Kirsty Balfour.
Before Spain, Fred was handpicked by Bill Sweetenham as he was rebuilding British Swimming.
00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hi Fred
04:45 Resting at Mom's house
06:15 Frenchman in charge of Spanish National Team
09:00 Multilingual
12:15 Coaching influences & philosophies
22:30 Back to club coaching
26:05 See the plan through
32:45 Mireia Belmonte
36:55 How Belmonte trains
43:55 Gold medal set
46:00 Mental coach
58:15 Learning from COVID
01:04:00 What it takes
01:10:00 Paris
01:13:00 Bill Sweetenham story
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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!
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Sep 9, 2021 • 30min
Dive Inside LIVE with Fanny Teijonsalo
We talk all things ISL with Energy Standard coach, Sonny Trigg, and special guest, Finnish record holder, Fanny Teijonsalo!
The International Swimming League continues to roll on. We discuss how skins and jackpotting is the only thing that matters. It also brings in the money.
Ilya Borodin, the young Russian who missed the Olympics due to COVID.
David Popovici won't be swimming ISL this season...so maybe 2nd semester in NCAA?
Sarah Sjostrom out to rehab the elbow.
Ingrid Wilm sets Canadian record in the 100 SCM Backstroke 55.9
Australia is coming (Emma McKeon & Kyle Chalmers) for the London Roar.
Will Caeleb Dressel break the 100 Free WR?
Congrats to Flo Manaudou & Pernille Blume on their engagement.
Rest in peace Bill Wadley, Ohio State's legendary swim coach.
This week on the pod: Fernando Possenti and Fred Vergnoux!
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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