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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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Jul 27, 2021 • 31min
Titmus vs. Ledecky Round 2, Men's 100 Free Prelims, WR for the British 4x200 Free Relay?
Swimming at the Tokyo Olympics Day 4 Prelims recap with Brett and Nate. Sonny took a nap instead.
Men's 100 Free
Women's 200 Fly
Men's 200 Breast
Men's 4x200 Free Relay
Men's 800 Free
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#tokyoolympics #swimming

Jul 26, 2021 • 33min
Ledecky top seed 200/1500 Free, UVA girls crush 2IM, Chad Le Clos sneaks in 2 Fly Semis
Swimming at the Tokyo Olympics Prelims Day 3 recap with Brett Hawke, Swimnerd, and The Swimsuit Guy Sonny.
Tokyo Olympic Day 3 Prelims:
Women's 200m Free
Men's 200m Fly
Women's 200m IM
Women's 1500m Free
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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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Jul 25, 2021 • 33min
Ledecky v. Titmus Round 1, Schoenmaker & Sunwoo Shine, Chalmers splits 46.6
Swimming at the Tokyo Olympics Prelims Day 2 recap with Brett Hawke, Swimnerd, and Coach Adrian Crawford from South Africa.
Tokyo Olympic Day 2 Prelims:
Women's 100m Back
Regan Smith, Kaylee McKeown, and Kylie Masse break the Olympic Record 3 times in a row.
Men's 200m Free
Teenager Sunwoo Hwang from Korea was out like a bolt of lightning 50.1 to his feet. The only man to break 1:45 in Prelims.
Women's 100m Breast
Tatjana Schoenmaker, a 200 Breaststroker from South Africa, rips a 1:04 100 Breaststroke for top seed in front of Americans Lydia Jacoby and Lilly King.
Men's 100 Back
Kliment Kolisnikov out in 24.8 to his feet making a statement this morning. Ryan Murphy with an easy Prelims swim.
Women's 400m Free
Ledecky came out looking sharper than she did at Trials. Titmus adds 4 seconds to her winning time from OT's last month.
Men's 400 Free Relay
Kyle Chalmers with huge 46.6 split. Russia sneaks in 8th. Great Britain is OUT, finishing 9th, opting not to put Duncan Scott on the relay this morning.
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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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Jul 24, 2021 • 35min
Daiya Seto out of 4IM, Sjostrom swims brilliant 100 Fly, Invincible Aussie Women's Relay
Swimming at the Tokyo Olympics has begun with a bang. Brett Hawke, Swimnerd, and The Swimsuit Guy sit down and chat about Day 1 Prelims.
Saturday, July 24, 2021:
Men's 400m IM
Women's 100m Fly
Men's 400m Free
Women's 400m IM
Men's 100m Breast
Women's 4x100m Free Relay
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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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Jul 12, 2021 • 1h 2min
#174 Shannon Rollason
Shannon Rollason is a 4x Olympic swim coach for Australia and Denmark. He has coached Pernille Blume, Jeanette Ottesen, Rikke Moller Pederson, Belinda Hocking, Alice Mills, and Jodie Henry. As well as newly minted Australian Olympian Jessica Hansen.
You may remember episode 42 with Alice Tait who talked about Shannon's unique style of reverse cycling -- going fast at the beginning of the season. Brett digs in deep to find out more.
It took Australia 48 years to win the Women's 100 Free....now they dominate the event. What has changed since Jodie Henry in the Women's 100 Free?
Shannon shares his training philosophies on pulling, kicking, and more. He also discusses the importance of long, uninterrupted training blocks vs. racing.
This might be the most actionable interview we've produced yet. As a swim coach, this interview is as good as gold.
Enjoy!
03:30 Jessica Hansen
04:00 COVID Training
06:35 Training Philosophy
08:15 Practicing vs. Racing
9:25 David Popovici 47.30
10:30 Ignore youth at your peril
10:55 Women's 100 Freestyle Progression
14:25 Pernille Blume
17:20 Reverse Periodization
21:15 Julia Ham the Guinea Pig
27:20 Pulling
28:40 Kicking
32:00 Evolving
42:00 New South Wales
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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: Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Create an interactive heat sheet. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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Find | Shannon Rollason
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Jul 9, 2021 • 11min
David Popovici blasts 47.30 in the 100 Free
David Popovici, the 16 year old from Romania, talks with Brett after his World Junior Record breaking swim in the 100 Freestyle at European Junior Championships.
22.97
24.33
47.30
Exploding head emoji.
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: Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Create an interactive heat sheet. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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Jul 8, 2021 • 1h 12min
#173 Austin Surhoff
Austin Surhoff is a professional swimmer (and current free agent) training to make the International Swimming League. He won the 200 IM at NCAA Championships back in 2010 while swimming at the University of Texas. He grew up swimming for Bob Bowman at NBAC and would ultimately return to swim alongside Michael Phelps and Chase Kalisz to train for the 2016 Rio Games, placing 8th in the 200 IM.
Fast forward to 2021, he just finished 21st and 29th in the 50 and 100 Freestyles, respectively, at US Olympic Trials. Best times for him. He's gone from being a 200 IMer/Backstroker/Freestyler to a 22.5 50 Freestyler. He talks about how he trains now, taking a little bit of everything from everyone that he has worked with along the way. He has coached at Johns Hopkins and as a volunteer with UVA and Todd DeSorbo.
Austin discusses the culture at Texas under Eddie Reese and Kris Kubick, as well as potential successor, Wyatt Collins. He dives into what it was like to train with the GOAT for two years leading up to 2016. And, overcoming some mental health struggles along the way.
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: Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Create an interactive heat sheet. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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Jul 6, 2021 • 1h 4min
#172 Giaan Rooney
Giaan Rooney is a 2x Olympic swimmer for Australia (2000, 2004) who captured a Gold and two Silvers medals. Giaan loved racing and at one point in time, loved training. Her love-hate relationship with swimming is highlighted by the fact that she has not taken a stroke since her retirement.
At 15, she erupted onto the scene by winning the 100 Back at the Commonwealth Games. She was driven by the confidence that her workload gave her. She went on to be a vital part of Australia's silver medal winning 4x100 Medley Relay and 4x200 Free Relays in front of the home crowed at the 2000 Olympic Games. A year later, she was crowned the 200 Free World Champion in Fukuoka, Japan.
Just 12 months later, after a disappointing Commonwealth Games, she was ready to hang it up. Instead, she made the move from Miami to Melbourne where she ended up training under Ian Pope along side Grant Hackett, Daniel Kowalski, Brett, and many others.
A television personality, broadcaster and commentator, you may have just heard her on Amazon Prime during the Australian Olympic Trials.
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: Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Create an interactive heat sheet. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
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Find | Giaan Rooney
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Jul 2, 2021 • 57min
#171 Jamal Hill
Jamal Hill is headed to Tokyo to compete in this year's Paralympic Games. He set the American Record in the 50 Free at Paralympic Trials just last month. At 10 years old, Jamal was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a neurological condition that affects the muscles in his arms and legs.
For years he didn't tell anyone not even his teammates at Hiram College!
He is also the founder of the Swim Up Hill Foundation, a non-profit focused on teaching 1 million people to swim in-person and online. Be sure to follow him on Instagram.
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: Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Create an interactive heat sheet. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
Connect:
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Find | Jamal Hill
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Jun 24, 2021 • 1h 5min
#170 Jon Sieben
Jon Sieben inspired millions of Australians when he won the 200 Fly at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles defeating the Albatross from West Germany, Michael Gross.
He was coached by Joe King and then, "The Lunatic Laurie Lawrence".
Enjoy!
Support Our Sponsors:
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: Stream your swim meet scoreboard in real time over top your live stream. Create an interactive heat sheet. Turn any tv into a digital scoreboard.
02:30 Intro
03:20 Impact on Australia
05:05 Why haven't I ever met you?
06:05 How'd it all start?
08:50 Meeting Laurie Lawrence
09:50 Training Partners
11:30 Heart Rate Bob
12:45 40x50's Fly
17:25 1984 Australian OT's
19:55 200 Fly at 1984 Olympics
24:30 Michael Gross
25:45 1985 Kobe Japan WUGs
27:25 Believing in your training
29:40 Taper
33:15 Australian Swimming
34:55 Breaking down the Race
41:00 Celebration
43:00 What the Olympics Are About
46:50 Mental Health Awareness
50:00 How to apply swimming to real life
53:30 Kids
54:15 Australian Water Polo
58:10 Duncan Armstrong
Connect:
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Find | Jon Sieben
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Thumbnail Photo courtesy Hanson Media Group (Check out Hanso's episode 169)! Thank you, Hanso!
Photos at the end of the YouTube show courtesy of Maria Sieben, Jon's wife. Thank you Maria for sharing and making this happen!