Hey Sailfish Families! Weekly Update: Sailfish have been flying higher for a long time. The higher up the ladder you go the more important attending meets and paying attention in practice becomes. Every detail affects your performace. Practice & Upcoming Events: There is practice this Saturday March 14. There is no practice spring break, next week March 16-21st. Just got this note. From: SSRP <SSRP@usaswimming.org> Date: March 13, 2026 at 6:30:27 PM CDT Subject: Safe Sport Zoom Trainings Next Week! Parents & Athletes. Click on the parent or athlete link if...

This is a reminder that parents and swimmers need to watch the safe sport video now. Thank you to the folks that have already taken action. Everyone else please get this done. Parents you will need to set up your swimmer with a different email from your primary email. Thanks, Coach Chris In order to get recertified as a USA Swimming safe sport team parents and swimmers need to log in and watch a safe sport video. This is not hard other than taking the time to log in so...

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For anyone new to USA Swimming, meet entries and fees can be a bit confusion. Sorry for the delay in getting this note out about meet entries but the USA Swimming registration process has been particularly challenging this year. Since no one is supposed to practice or attend meets without being recognized as registered by USA swimming, that has been the priority. Now that we are through that process let us look at meet entry. Meet entry begins with swimmers selecting “attending” or “not attending”. Then when the meet entry...

We may be out of a practice pool for a few days because of hazardous weather but that does not mean you cannot do some very important training. Actually, the most important training is training of the mind. The following is an exercise and a visualization review of our 8-step process. For your races write down your splits needed to reach your goal time. Focus on the effort and technique needed to hit those splits. (Visualization part 1). Mental exercise. Close your eyes, swim your race in your head paying...

There is a great deal of what I teach on deck (based on decades of experieince) in the following article by Oliver Poirier-Leroy. Sometimes you just need to hear it from someone else. Perhaps an article on Caleb Dressel ? Check it out at the link below. Caeleb Dressel: Carry a Big Kick and Bigger Goals (yourswimlog.com) Coach Chris

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” MICHELANGELO

Following up on our talk about carrots, egss and coffee beans here are 6 thoughts on hard work from the Oliver Leroy newsletter. Coach Chris --------------------------------------------------------- As a swimmer, you know that working hard is important. It’s usually the great equalizer, the key to success in the water. But hard work is worth more than just fast performances on race day. Hard work expands your horizons. Consistently giving a quality effort shows you what is truly possible versus what you think is possible. Hard work gives you the chance to...

Coach Chris was nominated for and then received the 2022 USA-S Volunteer Service Award at the annual House of Delegates Meeting on October 8th.

Sometimes it helps to hear about the pattern for success from another angle from someone else. Coach Chris ------------------------------ From: Olivier Leroy <olivier=yourswimbook.com@send.aweber.com> on behalf of Olivier Leroy <olivier@yourswimbook.com> Subject: Be the swimmer that is ambitious and accountable Oh, hello there! Ambition and accountability. Sounds like a financial services firm staffed by former boy band members. But it’s the balance (ha—finance pun!) you need to strive for. It’s why some swimmers do this stuff... Have big goals — but don’t write them out Say they want to work hard every...