Tim Welsh, who captured two NCAA team titles and led the University of Notre Dame for thirty years has been selected for the 2020 CSCAA Benjamin Franklin Award. The selection from the Executive Board of the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) is made in recognition of pioneering individuals or organizations whose efforts and innovations best promote the integrity and enhancement of the student-athlete ideal.
Read MoreA few days ago, I received I received a small book of poems from a friend: If God Invented Baseball by E. Ethelbert Miller. “Oh Good,” I thought, “Just in time for Spring Training.” What a surprise when I looked inside.
Read MoreWith the start of the season, we are all looking for an edge in coaching our programs and in our coaching. “Read and React” is a phrase used in this essay to describe a possible path to “highly successful” coaching.
Read MoreWe have all seen the picture many times by now. Everyone who was there remembers the moment. Probably, they always will. After eight days of racing, morning and evening, Olympic Trials ended Sunday night, July 3rd. Then, w
Read MoreSwimming’s Championship season has ended. Hail to our Champions! Oh My,
what a Championship Season this was! At the very top, this was a Championship Season
that re-defined for us the meaning of “fast.” Throughout the field, this was a Championship Season that taught us over and over again that times we once thought were “fast,” are no longer as “fast” as they used to be. Message received. Meaning communicated. We “got it.” We have been “enlightened.”
One of the things that strikes me as I watch (too much) basketball is listening to commentators refer to a coach who is talking to a player, usually one who has just come out of the game, as someone who is “always teaching.” Of course the coach is “always teaching.” That is what coaching is. Coaching is Teaching.
Read MoreSwimming’s Championship season has arrived. Hooray! From now through the end of March at least, there is a college, a high school, or a USA Swimming championship meet somewhere every weekend. Hooray for that too. Swimmers like championship meets. So do coaches.
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