Swimmer's Daily

  • Karen Zemlin, 52, is the first open-water swimmer named to the Minnesota State Swimming Hall of Fame. In August of last year, she posted the fastest time ever for a woman over 50 in swimming the English Channel.

  • Core conditioning isn’t just for swimmers it’s for everyone.

  • The 2020 European Aquatics Championships are now confirmed for 10-23 May 2021

    The 2020 European Aquatics Championships in Swimming, Diving, Open Water Swimming, and Artistic Synchronised Swimming, originally planned for 11-24 May 2020 in Budapest (HUN) and provisionally re-planned at first for 17-30 August 2020, are now confirmed for 10-23 May 2021, in Budapest (HUN).

    The decision to reschedule the Championships to 10-23 May 2021 has been taken in full cooperation and agreement with the Hungarian Swimming Association, the Hungarian Government and local organizers. We believe it is realistic to hope that by May 2021 things will have returned to normal, hence allowing the organization of an exceptional event.

    The 2020 LEN Water Polo Cups competitions are cancelled

    This means that there will be no continuation or additional games related to the 2019-2020 Water Polo Champions Leagues, the 2019-2020 Water Polo Euro League Women and the 2019-2020 Water Polo Euro Cup.

    Read the press release from LEN

  • Enjoy watching two-times Olympic Gold medallist and captain of USA’s Women’s Water Polo team Maggie Steffens show you how to master the “Catch and Shoot” in Water Polo! Catch and Shoot is Maggie Stevens’ all-time favorite way to shoot a goal. It’s not about what you do when you have the ball in your hands, it’s about what you do before you get the ball.

    These tips will help up your game:

    1. be prepared & in position before receiving the ball
    2. stabilizing your body with your non-dominate leg
    3. rotate using your hips and your core
    4. finish and always crunch forward

     

  • Melanie Margalis calls them complete mental breakdowns. They used to be commonplace for the Olympian — at every meet, before she swam the 400m individual medley.

    “The event freaks me out so bad,” Margalis said of a race labeled the decathlon of swimming for its grueling, all-around test. “I wish it didn’t. People are like, Mel, you’re so good. I’m like, you don’t understand what it does to me.”

    Margalis, a 28-year-old who trains at the University of Georgia, finally overcame the block in recent months with the help of a sports psychologist.

    On March 6, Margalis took 2.97 seconds off her personal best in the four-and-a-half-minute event at the last meet before the coronavirus pandemic halted sports. She improved from the fifth-fastest American in the 400m IM since the start of 2019 to No. 1 by a whopping 2.94 seconds. She’s now fourth-fastest in the world in that span.

    “I wasn’t scared of what could happen,” she said of her mindset at the meet in Des Moines. “I wasn’t letting myself be scared of what could happen if I tried to have a good race.”

    Read Yahoo! Sports

     

  • How to relax and stay calm before a meet, before a swim and after practice

    This episode of #FFTLive was led by Olympian and Olympic Coach Brett Hawke, and Olympian Kim Vandenberg.

    We discussed:

    • Relaxation techniques
    • Importance of relaxation as it relates to recovery
    • How to stay calm before a meet
    • How to control your nerves before a race
    • …and much more!

  • Irish Olympic diver Oliver Dingley joined OTB AM ahead of the release of his Off The Couch video which will be live across our social channels from lunchtime today.

  • Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, seniors in the Spider swim and dive program were unable to attend an in person graduation in the spring of 2020. The program set up a virtual commencement program for the team, complete with gold medalist Maya DiRado as the keynote speaker for the event.

  • Even as we reach a plateau of coronavirus cases, Missy Franklin says we still need to be responsible. Spread the word not the virus. Stay safe. Wash your hands. Use social distancing.