Swim Talk A2B with Dana Abbott and Bob Button
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Swim Talk A2B with Dana Abbott and Bob Button
Contemporary topics and issues on competitive swimming are discussed by two experienced USA swim coaches and authors, with special guests most episodes, ranging from high school and college/club coaches to world-record holders and Olympians from various countries. Email us at: swimtalk@outlook.com
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Swim Talk A2B - Episode 67: Author/Coach Chuck Warner
Former Rutgers Head Coach and acclaimed swimming writer Chuck Warner (a frequent guest to Swim Talk A2B) has done it AGAIN. His latest book release, "...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 66: George Block
We begin this episode with a lengthy recitation of achievements by this noted coach and educator, but here are some highlights, courtesy of ASCA:
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 65: Ira Klein, Sarasota Tsunami and USA Swimming
SARASOTA SWIM ACADEMY Head Coach Ira Klein, has coached 6 OLYMPIANS and over 40 USA, YMCA and COLLEGIATE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.
He is an ASCA-certi...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 64: Jon Cleveland, Canadian Olympic Medalist and Myrtha Pools
Three- time Canadian Olympian Jon Cleveland has been a swimmer, a coach, and overseer for the installation of Myrtha pools for the USA Olympic Swimmin...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 63: Our FIRST JuCo Team and Coach, Dale Pearce of MCC
Yes, we've finally turned our attention to the unheralded realm of amazing junior colleges, those necessary and beneficial 2-year options for kids wan...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 62: Best Small Club Team in America - Orinda Aquatics, Coaches Don and Ron Heidary
Don and Ron Heidary have been in this particular business for over 30 years, and after listening to them explain their strategy and philosophy of CHAR...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 61: UVA's Todd DeSorbo, USA Olympic Head Women's Coach
One of the most successful collegiate careers in the business! Listen in as we have an engaging conversation with University of Virginia Head Women's...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 60: Jeff Raker, Level Up Leadership
From listennotes.com:
Jeff is a swim official, former FINA starter and pastor. He has worked with big business brands including To...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 59: John Leonard, "Mr. ASCA", Part 2
In this second part of two content-rich episodes with former Executive Director of the American Swimming Coaches Association, John Leonard, we dive DE...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 58: John Leonard, "Mr. ASCA", Part 1
From 1985 to 2020, "ASCA" and "John Leonard" were unmistakably linked. As Executive Director of the American Swimming Coaches Association for 35 years...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 57: NISCA President-Elect Kyle Bedalov
Longtime president of the Wisconsin Swimming Coaches Association and the next president of NISCA, Kyle Bedalov wandered into the Swim Talk Zoom Room r...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 56: Olympic Medalist Natalie Hinds
In 2015, the University of Florida’s Natalie Hinds was voted Freshman of the Year at the SEC Championships. That same year, she was part of the trio o...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 55: SwimNerd's Nate Tschohl
What started as a Kickstarter campaign more than 10 years ago has grown into an incredible business with pace clocks, scoreboards, touchpads, starting...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 53: Hall of Fame Swim Coach Roy Snyder, Wilson HS, Reading PA
Coach Roy Snyder has been at the helm of the Wilson HS swim teams in Reading PA for over 60 years! Our visit with him is like strolling through a most...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 54: ASCA Board President Mike Murray Returns!
Mike Murray returns for another visit on Swim Talk as he also returns to his HS alma mater, Albany (NY) Academies as head swim coach for boys and girl...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 52: Trey Hayes Leaping From Lubbock to Arlington
Longtime Lubbock swim guru Trey Hayes, also a past-president of TISCA, makes a leap east to take over aquatics in the Arlington ISD. How he got starte...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 51: Bob and Dana Take A Look in the Rearview Mirror
After getting 50 episodes "in the can" (and a few in the garbage can), we wanted to take a retrospective look at our coaching beginnings and the steps...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode FIFTY: Kevin Cargill, Meet Announcer for USOT24
There are two types of announcers at major televised swim meets like NCAA Championships and US Olympic Trials: the big-time network pros in the nice u...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 49: Mark Onstott (New Trier HS), Part 2
Mark Onstott has been extremely successful at every stop along his coaching career, but maybe none so successful as his two decades at one of the most...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 48: Mark Onstott (New Trier HS)
Mark Onstott has been extremely successful at every stop along his coaching career, but maybe none so successful as his two decades at one of the most...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 47: Camp Longhorn's Bill Robertson
Former UT swimmer and now GM of famed Camp Longhorn in Burnet, Texas, Bill Robertson shares stories about his swimming career, his mom and dad, and th...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 46: TCU's Richard Sybesma
Behind the scenes at TCU with the highly entertaining and successful coach of Texas Christian University for 38 years, Richard Sybesma. More discussio...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 45: Indiana State's Josh Christensen
Continuing to rebuild and improve the women-only team for the Indiana State Sycamores (the "Fighting Trees"), Josh shares his story and the current st...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 44: Longhorn Legend Darrell Fick, Texas One Fund
We visited with former UT All American and team captain Darrell Fick (UT Class of 1978) on his background, UT experience, and his coaching path from A...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 43: Jennifer LaMont, ASCA CEO
Jennifer LaMont became ASCA CEO in 2021, swam her HS years in Ohio for Walnut Hills HS, and club at the Cincinnati Marlins under Denny Pursley (a form...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 42: Scott Hammond
Former head coach at Tulane, Ohio, and NC State, as well as assistant to Bob Boettner at Clemson and the legendary Eddie Reese at Texas, veteran NCAA...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 41: Chuck Warner and Dana Abbott
Bob engages the authors of the internationally acclaimed five-star book, EDDIE REESE: COACHING SWIMMING, TEACHING LIFE in a wide-ranging discussion of...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 40: Jason Devine
An outstanding high school swimmer, Jason Devine did not start coaching until almost 15 years after graduating from Katy (TX) High School. Despite tha...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 39: Avery Adams
This episode of Swim Talk A2B features Avery Adams. [content timeline follows]
Avery hails from Kentucky where he got his first head swim coach...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 38: Madison Yelle-SFTL
Bob coached Madison in club swimming and has followed her from her high school and collegiate swimming career to her current position as an influentia...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 37: Bonnie Adams of Swim OZ
Bonnie returns for her THIRD interrogation and grilling by our intrepid podcast heroes to give a review of the 2023 Walmart OZ Mile Swim. The Walmart...
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 36: Waterloo's Andy Korda (Austin, TX)
Andy Korda has done almost all of it, from coaching learn-to-swim and summer team all the way up to Jr/Sr Nationals, Olympic Trials, and was hugely re...
SwimTalk A2B - Episode 35: "Swimming Saved Me" - Former Age Grouper Lawrence Romine, now an IRONMAN
In the mid-1980s we coached an age group team in west Houston, Western Horizon Aquatic Team ("WHAT"), in a then-small town called Katy. One of our "tw...
SwimTalk A2B - Episode 34: Bonnie Adams Returns, OZ Mile Swim 2023 [Open Water Swimming]
[Description from Bonnie's first visit to SwimTalk in Episode 30]
An in-depth look at conceptualizing and developing an open water swimming
Swim Talk A2B - Episode 33 - Mike Waldmann, Andrews (TX) HS, first-ever 4A-under Boys State Champions!
Mike Waldmann was Swim Talk's VERY FIRST podcast guest in the summer of 2020, and returns for a second visit to share the events and circumstances sur...
SwimTalk A2B - Episode 32: Kutztown (PA) D2 Men's Swimming REINSTATED-A Conversation with Golden Bears Head Coach Tim Flannery
In 2009, after almost 40 years of being a sport at Kutztown University, the AD met with head coach Tim Flannery to bluntly tell him the men's program...
SwimTalk A2B - Episode XXX - Open Water Swimming with Bonnie Adams of SWIM OZ
An in-depth look at conceptualizing and developing an open water swimming event in the beautiful Ozark vacation area of Beaver Lake, Arkansas. Bonnie...
SwimTalk A2B - Episode XXIX - Hungarian Olympian and US Nationals Champion Norbert Agh
Bob and Dana finally catch up with famed Hungarian Champion and Olympian, double US Nationals Champion, and NCAA Division I (U of Arizona) swimmer Nor...
Swim Talk A2B - Season 3 Episode 28 - The Varsity Cup!
Athletes get many kudos in life.
The spotlight is on them from an early age. Some excel through high school. Some go on to star in college. A fe...
Swim Talk A2B, Episode XXVII - Patrick Henry, Part Deux
In this conclusion to a fun and wide-ranging visit with Pat, we hear about how to take the reins of an interim coaching position without disrupting th...