Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps Win Top Honors at USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards   Olympic champions and world-record holders Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md.) and Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) claimed top honors as repeat Athlete of the Year winners Sunday at the 2015 USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE. Ledecky was the night’s big winner, claiming three awards – Female Athlete of the Year, Female Race of the Year for the 200-meter freestyle at the 2015 FINA World Championships and Relay Performance of the...

10 Reasons Swimmers are Thankful for Swimming By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent   Oh, we swimmers love to [sometimes] loathe swimming. Like any love-hate relationship, swimming is like the vegetables you consume but only-because-you-should, or like that long history textbook that takes a year to finish but makes an impact on you forever. It is good for you. It is cold. It gives you self-esteem. It is cold. It improves your goal setting and time management abilities. It is cold.    As we approach the annual Time of Thanks, and beyond that...

CVST Announces Official 2016 Boys & Girls Club Nat's Logo   CVST had released the official logo of the 2016 Boys & Girls Club National Championships.  The meet is being held April 8-10, in 2016 at the North Shore Swimming Complex, in St. Petersburg.  For more information visit www.CVST.org or inquire at Info@CVST.org.  

Support CVST When You Shop this Holiday Season and All Year Long!   The holidays are quickly approaching and you will soon be busy shopping for gifts. CVST wants to remind you to shop at smile.amazon.com & SwimOutlet.com and CVST will receive a percentage of your purchases from these on-line Super Stores as a donation tot the team.  This works all year long, but espesially now at the Holiday Season.  All you have to do is enter through our one of our CVST portals to these sites.  Just click on...

Happy #TBT from #CVST   Happy #TBT from #CVST - Remember this crew, with Coach Stacia, from a few years back & at the old pool? #OldDays #CVSTAlum #FunnestSport  

7 Keys to Being the Best Swim Parent You Can Be   As the weather cools and the leaves change colors, kids and parents all over the country are back in the full swing of school and practice routines. Youth athletics can be a very time consuming, stressful, and expensive endeavor. Parents are an essential component in the success of a child-athlete, but they can also be a toxic element. The fine line that parents walk between involvement and respectful distance can be difficult to navigate. Done well, parents of...

SwimSwam Launches Print Magazine   If chlorine runs in your veins, you know how much our sport requires of you. You have to sacrifice time, energy and huge chunks of your life to make it work.   At SwimSwam we strive to match that dedication. A big part of it for us is always striving to improve, working to find newer, better ways to keep you in touch with your favorite sport.  Mostly, we know we must listen to you, the reader.   We’ve received a lot of requests to...

Travel and Swimming Fast By Dr. Jim Miller, National Team Physician, USA Swimming Sports Medicine Task Many athletes dread the thought of traveling distances, either across the U.S. or abroad, for competition. At home, everything is set up to maximize performance. Meals are easy and familiar. Nothing rivals sleeping in your own bed. Support systems of family, coaches, trainers, medical personnel are all there. Travel can disturb all of this, starting with an exhausting, uncomfortable trip in cramped quarters. To see more information on travel click here:

When a Meal is a Meal By Jill Castle, MS, RDN   When I wrote Growing Swimmers May Need a 4th Meal, I noticed a lot of comments on USA Swimming’s Facebook page indicating that 4 meals wasn’t nearly enough food for a swimmer. Take a peek at some of the comments: More like six meals... I used to get out of morning practice and eat a whole Costco box of Honey Nut Cheerios. Then had to stop doing that and ate three eggs and toast before school.  4th meal...

  What is Sport Psychology? By Dr. Jim Bauman//Special Contributor   Sport psychology is a profession that utilizes psychological theory, research, strategies and applied experience to move individuals toward capturing their highest athletic potentials (talent) by collaboratively working with the athlete, other support staff and coaches. That collaborative work results in increasingly higher levels of performance with a consistent ability to perform on demand – individually, as a team, in the pool, and out of the pool.   Full Article