In this episode, I sat down with Don Spellman, who’s the Head Coach for the Iowa City Eels. Don has been a member of Iowa Swimming, as a swimmer and a coach, for many years, and has attended the USA-S Convention as a delegate over 10 times in a 20 Read more…
In this episode, I sat down with Aron Nakama, who’s the Head Novice Coach for the Ames Cyclone Aquatics Club. If you’re following this show you’ll notice this is the 3rd episode with a coach from ACAC. As I mentioned before, since I had previously lived in Ames, I stayed Read more…
The podcast’s 3rd guest was Ben Utesch, who is the Head Age Group Coach for the Ames Cyclone Aquatics Club (ACAC) in Ames, IA. While in most cases I only had the chance to interview one coach from each club I visited, as I have previously lived in Ames my Read more…
The second guest I had on the podcast was Mike Peterson, Head Coach of the Ames Cyclone Aquatics Club (ACAC) in Ames, IA. This was my first visit back to ACAC, where I actually started my full-time coaching career, and I was really impressed with how the club has grown Read more…
The very first interview I recorded to be made into a podcast was with my good friend Greg Temple, who had just made the move from Club to College coaching. At the time of this interview, Greg was just starting his first season at the helm of William Jewell College Read more…
After 51 days on the road, I got to sleep in my own bed again! I took a few days’ break before writing this post (in fact, I’m now in the boarding room at an airport for a different trip, but I digress), but here are a few stats and Read more…
Following my visit with Edinboro University, it was nearly straight east through a gorgeous Fall day in NY State for me, as I headed towards Attleboro, MA, to visit Bluefish Swim Club. Bluefish is coached by Chuck Batchelor, and both are probably best known for having produced 3-time Olympian Elizabeth Read more…
After a few great days in Lexington, KY, where I got to check out both the University of Kentucky Wildcats and the USA-Swimming team Kentucky Aquatics, I drove up mostly north to Edinboro, PA, to visit a friend and former colleague of mine who’s working with the Edinboro University Swim Read more…
As I mentioned on my post about Kentucky Aquatics, while in Lexington I was lucky enough to get to observe two programs, one of the them being the University of Kentucky Swimming and Diving. This was my first time tagging along a major D1 program, so I was really looking Read more…
Following my visit to Lakeside Aquatics, I took a couple days break from swimming to camp out in Tennessee, and then drove back up to Kentucky, this time to visit Lexington. This stop was a 2-for-1, as I was able to visit both Kentucky Aquatics (KYA), and the University of Read more…