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Michael Phelps Plays “Foot Flickers” On The Ellen Sho w “The Ellen Show” with Ellen DeGeneres is quickly becoming THE place to find 2016 U.S. Olympic swimmers as five-time Olympian Michael Phelps joins the growing list. Phelps, who now boasts a whopping 23 gold medals and 28 total medals to his name, sat down with DeGeneres and her co-host for the day, Kristin Bell, to talk about his Olympic medals, his dream of being an Olympic champion, and son Boomer Phelps. According to Phelps his 28 medals are kept in a secret place and...
6 Tips for Swim Parents About the Car Ride Home by Elizabeth Wickham “I’ll never forget the ride home after a swim meet,” one of my Masters coaches said. He’s in his mid-fifties and he doesn’t remember the car ride home in a good way. In fact, he joked that he was scarred for life. It was a meet where he swam really, really badly and the ride home was awful. Is that how we want our kids to remember spending time with us 40 years later? According...
USA Swimming Membership Card Goes Digital Welcome to the 2016-2017 swimming season! This year, USA Swimming will be offering the new membership card through Deck Pass and usaswimming.org. To access your card, please follow the steps below: 1. If you do not have a Deck Pass account, please follow the steps below: a. Visit usaswimming.org b. Select the “Sign In” button at the top right of the screen c. Select the “Need to Create an Account?” link d. Register - Fill out the form and select the "Create Account"...
10 Signs You May Be a Helicopter Swim Parent When I was a kid, we didn’t have year-round sports in my small town. We didn’t specialize in one sport at an early age or take private lessons. Today, we spend countless hours driving our kids to practice—at dawn, in the evenings, to meets on weekends—50 weeks a year. We want our kids to be successful in academics and swimming. All this emphasis on success can lead to “helicopter parenting.” We helicopter for many reasons. We no longer...
5 Tips for Getting Back into Your Swimming Routine Whether it was Ryan Murphy’s world record in the 100m backstroke, Katie Ledecky’s freestyle clinic, or Michael Phelps cleaning up the medals for the last time, watching the Rio Games was exhilarating. If you are like most swimmers, you felt the strong pull of the pool calling out to you, the Olympics creating some serious motivation to get back into the pool and unleash some effort on your own goals, whether they are based in being in Tokyo in...
Finding Morning Motivation By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent The alarm clock goes off. It’s like a shock to the system. Your bedroom is dark. Other than the ear-cringing beeping, all else is still. You think there’s no possible reason any human being should ever wake up this early. No human being should wake before dawn to leap into a large body of cold, freezing water and immediately hike the heart rate beyond 140 beats per minute as a coach, arms-crossed, gives you impossibly hard, mentally and physically-exhausting exercises. And yet, lying...
Heat Sheets & More Available for SPA Meet Host Club, St. Pete Aquatics (SPA) has released the Psych Sheets, Warm-up Lane Assignments and the Heat Sheets for this weekend's meet at Northshore Pool. Be sure you look at the Psych Sheets and check out the competition, see where your are seeded and what you have to do to move up! Warm-up times for everyone have been assigned by team, so be sure to check with your coach to see what time you need to be there each day...
