Posted on March 22, 2012, in College, Events, NCAA Championships, Swim Talk, Video, with 0 Comments
This week we sat down to a Skype chat with Ricky Berens to talk about the 2012 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Ricky was one of the first to submit his top 8 picks to us and he takes.
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Posted on March 14, 2012, in NCAA Championships, Olympics, Ritter Sports Performance, Swim Blog, Swim Talk, with 4 Comments
I love this time of year, but not for the reasons you may think. Yes I’m a swim fan just like you, but I’m also a huge fan of March Madness and the NCAA Tournament. It’s great entertainment and drama.
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Posted on March 12, 2012, in Swim Blog, Swim Talk, with 2 Comments
As a coach that takes great pride in the technique that I teach, I’m always looking for new and/or trending techniques during the faster meets throughout the year. This year’s Columbus Grand Prix was no different as I noticed several.
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Posted on March 5, 2012, in Swim Blog, Swim Talk, with 0 Comments
Every great coach and every great swimmer has a plan when it comes to their training. A plan can be as simple as a single workout consisting of a warm-up, main set, and warm down or it can be a.
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Posted on January 22, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, Swim Blog, Swim Talk, with 2 Comments
This interview with Kierra Smith was done a few weeks ago, shortly after Canadian Kierra Smith returned home from the Pan American Games, where she took a silver as part of the Canadian 400 medley relay, and also placed 5th in the.
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Posted on December 15, 2011, in Interviews, National, National News, News, Swim Blog, Swim Talk, Video, with 17 Comments
Last night, we did an interview with Peter Andrew, who is the coach and the father of 11-12 National Age Group Record Breaker Michael Andrew. This was a phenomenal interview, as he is able to give both the parent’s perspective.
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Posted on December 5, 2011, in College, Interviews, Swim Blog, Swim Talk, Video, with 1 Comment
Check out the video below as we talk with Arizona sophomore Giles Smith about the Wildcats’ recent performance at the Texas Invitational, as well as how he’s turned his career around working with Eric Hansen and Rick Demont.
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Posted on November 13, 2011, in International News, News, Swim Blog, Swim Talk, with 0 Comments
After some hiatus as we moved through the fall Championship season, we’re back with the 3rd installment of our “best swimming nations” feature, where we take a look at which nations are the best in each of the individual World-Championship.
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Posted on November 9, 2011, in Ritter Sports Performance, Swim Blog, Swim Talk, with 0 Comments
Chris Ritter is a former college swimmer at Cal State-Bakersfield, and is the founder of RITTER Sports Performance. He has trained two Olympic Gold Medalists along with numerous other national and international level swimmers. He has used his educational background (a.
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Posted on November 8, 2011, in Swim Blog, Swim Talk, with 0 Comments
On November 8th, 1939, Brazil’s Maria Lenk cemented herself as a local legend when she becamse the first Brazilian to break a World Record. She swam a 2:56.0 in the 200 breaststroke in a Rio de Janiero meet, which cleared.
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