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By Retta Race on SwimSwam

The 2019 Swimming Australia awards are set to be handed out on Sunday, November 24th in Sydney and we now know who is in the running for the annual prestigious honors.

Newly-minted short course 100 backstroke World Record holder Minna Atherton has been nominated as the Short Course Program Swimmer of the Year. St. Peters Western World Champion Ariarne Titmus and Thomas Fraser-Holmes of Griffith University join her on the 3-person shortlist for the award.

Atherton became the first-ever female to dip under the 55-second threshold in the SCM 100 back, clocking a monster WR time of 54.89 at the International Swimming League (ISL) meet in Budapest late last month.

As for the Olympic Program Swimmer of the Year award, Titmus, Cate Campbell, Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers are all included among the nominees.

Titmus took down American Olympic icon Katie Ledecky in the women’s 400m free at this summer’s World Championships. She also snagged 200m free silver, 800m free bronze, as well as helped bring the Aussie women’s gold medal-winning 4x200m freestyle relay to World Record-holder status in Gwangju, Korea.

For C1‘s part, the NSWIS swimmer was just named the women’s overall World Cup winner for the 2019 season. That was after she soared to mixed medley and women’s 400m free relay gold medals in Gwangju. At those World Championships, Campbell also took silver in the women’s 100m free and bronze in the 50m free.

McKeon and Chalmers were also big-time swimmers in Gwangju, with the former taking bronze in the 100m fly, as well as being a critical contributor to relays. McKeon earned gold as a member of the women’s 4x200m free World Record-setting squad, while also clinching gold in the 400 free relay. She snagged an additional gold in the mixed medley, as well as silvers in the women’s medley and mixed free relays.

Chalmers put up the fastest 100m free time of his career in 47.08 to put up a valiant effort against the winner, American speedster Caeleb Dressel. Chalmers’ previous PB in the event stood at 47.35 at his nation’s Worlds Trials. The Marion swimmer also scored gold on the men’s 4x200m free relay, silver on the mixed free relay and bronze on the men’s 400 free relay.

The representative coaches of these athletes were also recognized as nominees for Olympic Coach of the Year, including Dean Boxall of St. Peters Western, Michael Bohl of Griffith University, Simon Cusack (Knox Pymble) and Peter Bishop (SASI).

Additional nominees for the Swimming Australia awards include the following:

Discovery of the Year:

• Ruby Storm
• Matthew Temple
• Ricky Betar
• Col Pearse

Youth Coach:

• Scott Talbot (Nunawading)
• Dean Boxall (St. Peters Western)
• Mick Palfrey (WAIS)
• Nick Valiades (MLC)

Club of the Year:

• Ballarat Swimming Club, VIC
• Barossa Swimming Club, SA
• Guildford and Kalamunda Districts Swimming Club, WA

Local Legend of the Year:

• Josh Barila, Mildura Swimming Club
• Ron Barnes, Breakers Swim Club
• Michelle Parker, Alice Springs Swimming Club
• Matt Roberts, Nambucca Aquatic Swim Club

Technical Official of the Year:

• Paul Carter
• Faye Lewis
• Jackie Madden
• Denise McLaughlin

Open Water Coach:

• John ‘JR’ Rodgers, Noosa
• Chris Nesbit, TSS Aquatics
• Michael Sage, Kawana Waters

Paralympic Coach:

• Jon Bell, Monte
• Harley Connolly, Belgravia Swim Team
• Andrew Howard, Central Cairns
• Simon Cusack, Knox Pymble

Open Water Program Swimmer:

• Kareena Lee, Noosa
• Nick Sloman, Noosa
• Kai Edwards, TSS Aquatics
• Chelsea Gubecka, Yeronga Park

Paralympic Program Swimmer:

• Tiffany Thomas Kane, Monte
• Ellie Cole, Knox Pymble
• Grant Patterson, Central Cairns
• Lakeisha Patterson, Belgravia Swim Team
• Jesse Aungles, Marion

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Atherton, Chalmers, C1 Lead Swimming Australia Award Nominations

By Barry Revzin on SwimSwam

The ISL competition in College Park, MD this past weekend featured two incredibly close contents: a battle for 1st place between the LA Current and the Cali Condors, and a battle for 3rd place between the DC Trident and the NY Breakers. Ultimately, LA and DC prevailed, but it came down to the very last event, in both cases, and proved a thrilling finale.

We here at SwimSwam predicted that Cali would win over LA, a prediction that was looking pretty good throughout Day 2 as the Condors built their lead up to 23.5 points  (23.5 and not 20.5 because DQs shouldn’t score leading into the 200 fly and the skins. When Hali Flickinger and Kelsi Dalhia went 1-4 in the 200 fly (while LA’s Ella Eastin and Leah Smith finished just 3-8 with Smith not making the time standard), putting Cali up by 31.5, we kind of thought it was over (given that Caeleb Dressel seems like a lock to win the skins) and ended up paying way more attention to the race for 3rd place (where you could make the claim that the DC-NY race came down entirely to Siobhan Haughey out-touching Pernille Blume by 0.04s to advance to the 3rd round of skins).

But then LA mounted a tremendous comeback. The men’s 200 fly was a perfect event for them. Not only did Tom Shields and Chase Kalisz finish 1-2, but Cali’s Mark Szaranek and Jan Switkowski finished 7-8 – not including penalties, this was the maximum possible net gain on an individual event of 13 points. LA’s Beryl Gastaldello followed that up with a masterful performance in the skins (swimming 23.98, 24.54, 24.46 by round) to win, and Margo Geer finished 5th, while Cali managed just a 4th and 8th place finish. Another 20 point gain for LA. This gave LA a slight, 1.5 point lead, with just the men’s skins, and Caeleb Dressel, to go. But even though Dressel won, as expected, LA got both Michael Chadwick and Ryan Held into the second round, and Chadwick advanced to the third round, such the LA actually outscored Cali 31-30, even with Dressel winning!

We were pretty surprised that LA won. Both from Cali generally leading all of day 2, and winning one of the skins events, and even winning 19 of the 37 events (LA won 12, the Trident won the other 6).

So let’s take a look back throughout the whole meet and see how LA won, even while DQing a relay, even without Nathan Adrian, and see where Cali left points on the table.

Let’s start with the obvious: time penalties. Actually, Cali only had a single penalty for the whole weekend: Radoslaw Kawecki missed the 25.00 cutoff in the 50 back with his 25.04 finish. But in his 100 back the same weekend, he was 24.92 to the feet. And 24.58 got 6th. That’s at least 1, if not 2, points that Cali could’ve used.

Relays are especially fun to second guess. In the mixed freestyle relay, Cali’s “B” relay lost to the Trident’s “A” relay by just 0.35 and the Current’s “B” relay by 0.80. That’s pretty close. Moreover, in this relay, the Condors’ “A” team won by over 2.5 seconds, having stacked this relay. But times don’t matter! It doesn’t matter if you win by 2.5 seconds or by 0.5 seconds. If they swapped Caeleb (45.7) and Tate Jackson (47.4), they still would’ve won handily but their “B” relay would’ve moved up to 3rd (from 6th) and more importantly would’ve passed both LA relays. That’s a 10 point swing, in a meet that the Condors lost by 2.5.

A similar story is true of both medley relays. Cali went 1-3 in the womens’ medley, with LA getting second, but Cali’s “A” relay won by over 2 seconds. Swap Lilly King (1:03.1 split) and Molly Hannis (1:04.2 split) and Cali goes 1-2 in this relay, another 4 point swing. Cali didn’t win the men’s medley relay, they got 3rd and 6th, but they could swap Dressel (49.5) and Jan Switkowski (52.5) on the fly legs and have gone 3-4 instead, for another 4 point gain.

Of course, it’s easy to cherry pick single swaps given all the splits after the fact. Although, amusingly, every single permutation of Cali’s two mixed freestyle relays scores at least as well as the one they used. They actually netted 2 points on LA (outscoring them 24 to 22) but the optimal mix here would’ve had them net 14 points: Jackson/Majchrzak/Comerford/Wog and Dressel/Fink/Weir/Margalis relays would’ve finished 1-2.

Moving on from relays, there were a few particularly close finishes. Ella Eastin (LA) beat Kelsi Dalhia (CAC) by just 0.09 in the 200 fly, which is another 2 point swing in LA’s favor. Molly Hannis (Cali) finished 4th in the 100 breast, but was only 0.03 behind NY’s Breeja Larson and 0.14 behind LA’s Annie Lazor. Potential for gain there too.

In the men’s 200 free, Cali had an especially poor showing. LA went 1-2 on the efforts of Blake Pieroni (1:43.48) and Andrew Seliskar (1:43.66) while Cali managed just a 6-7 finish with Majchrzak (1:44.20) and Townley Haas (1:45.87). That’s an 11 point loss to LA. While this was Haas’ fastest swim of the season, Majchrzak went 1:43.58 in Naples. Repeating that time in College Park would’ve netted 5 points for Cali, enough for the win.

Of course, some of the events that Cali lost big to LA (like the mens’ 200 fly and mens’ 400 IM, where they lost 13 and 9 points, respectively) are simply events that Cali is relatively weaker in. You can’t win everything. It’s not like there’s a lineup Cali could’ve used to beat LA by 50.

But maybe they could’ve won by 10.

And you can bet that’s something they’ll be thinking about for the next month leading into Vegas.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Could The Cali Condors Have Beaten The LA Current?

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Luke Hobson, the 19th-ranked men’s swimming recruit in the high school class of 2021, has verbally committed to the University of Texas. Hobson lives in Reno, Nevada where he swims for the Lakeridge Swim Team and Reno High School.

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Courtesy: Golden Coast Conference

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.— The Golden Coast Conference presents the 2019 Postseason Honors and for the third consecutive season the University of the Pacific’s Luke Pavillard is the GCC Player of the Year honors. Earning GCC Newcomer of the Year for 2019 is Pavillard’s teammate, Jeremie Cote.

Pavillard has been instrumental in leading the Tigers to three straight GCC regular season titles, pushing them to the No. 1 seed with a 16-3 overall record. He led the league in goals per game (2.84), points per game (4.26) and steals per game (1.42), and was second in assists per game (1.42). Pavillard leads Pacific with 54 goals on the season, ranking fourth in the league. He adds 27 assists and 27 steals, ranking fifth and third, respectively.

As for Cote, he made an instant impact in his first season with the Tigers, scoring 46 goals with 24 assists and 70 totals points in his inaugural campaign. He ranks seventh in the GCC in goals, seventh in assists and fourth in points.

Pavillard is also first-team All-GCC for the third straight year and is joined by teammate Engin Ege Colak, who also earned the honor for the third consecutive season. Also earning first-team honors are Chris Dilworth and Balazs Kosa from Pepperdine, Ivan Gvozdanovic and Danny Roland for UC Santa Barbara and Rafael Real Vergara from Long Beach State. Both Dilworth and Gvozdanovic earn the honor for the second straight season.

Cote is also a second-team All-GCC selection for the Tigers. Also earning second-team honors are Jacob Halle and Nathan Puentes from UC Santa Barabara, Austin Stewart and Garrett Zaan from Long Beach State, Casey Lynton from UC Irvine and Yahav Fire from San Jose State.

Earning honorable mention All-GCC honors are Marko Asic, John Claude Marco and Mate Toth from Pepperdine, Finn Pardon and Marc Weber from San Jose State, Luis Araya from Pacific, Marwan Darwish from Long Beach State and Sam Nangle from UC Santa Barbara.

Rounding out the postseason honors are the GCC All-Freshman Team. Earning freshman honors in 2018 are Cote, Vergara, Mason Chambliss (UCSB), Chad Gornay (UCI), Matthew Hosmer (UOP), Harrison Land (UCI) and Austin Smit (PEP).

The 2019 GCC Men’s Championships will take place at Pepperdine’s Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool in Malibu, Calif. Action begins Friday, Nov. 22 with a No. 3 UC Santa Barbara taking on No. 6 UC Irvine at 11 am, followed by No. 4 Long Beach State taking on No. 5 San Jose State at 1 pm. The semifinals will be played on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 11:15 am and 1:00 pm. In the first semifinal will be No. 2 seed Pepperdine taking on the winner from the first game. The second semifinal will feature the winner of game two taking on top-seed Pacific.

Championship Sunday will feature the title game at 1 pm on Nov. 24. The winner earns the GCC automatic bid to the NCAA championships.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Pacific’s Pavillard, Cote Tabbed as GCC WP Player, Newcomer of the Year

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Courtesy: Mountain Pacific Sports Federation

2019 All-MPSF Men’s Water Polo Selections

2019 MPSF Player of the Year
BEN HALLOCK· #6 · R-JUNIOR · CENTER · STANFORD
Stanford redshirt junior Ben Hallock (Studio City, CA/Harvard-Westlake HS) leads the MPSF with 62 goals (3.44 GPG) through the regular season, including a high of 14 over the three conference games. He was named MPSF Player of the Week a conference-high three times this year. Hallock delivered a game-high five goals, along with five field blocks and three drawn exclusions in a 17-11 regular season-ending home win over No. 3 UCLA (Nov. 16), which led to his second weekly award. Hallock put away eight goals and drew five exclusions one week earlier against No. 7 California. The eight-goal outburst tied the all-time MPSF record for a conference game, achieved just one other time in 1996 (Jeff Colyer-Long Beach State). He is the only MPSF player since 2015 to put away eight in a game, also achieving the feat once last year. Last year, Hallock became the first MPSF Water Polo player for either gender to go from a newcomer of the year to player of the year in consecutive seasons. He is the fourth player in MPSF history to repeat as player of the year (Garrett Danner, UCLA-2015-16; Joel Dennerley, USC-2010-11; Tony Azevedo-Stanford, 2001-04), and represents Stanford’s all-time high 11th MPSF Player of the Year award (Hallock-2019, ‘18; Jimmie Sandman-‘08; Tony Azevedo-‘04, ‘03, ‘02, ‘01; Brian Heifferon-‘99; Layne Beaubien-‘98; Brian Wallin-‘96; Wolf Wigo-‘94).

2019 MPSF Newcomer of the Year
NIKOLAOS PAPANIKOLAOU· #11 · FRESHMAN · CENTER · CALIFORNIA
California freshman Nikolaos Papanikolaou (Athens, Greece/49th HS of Athens) ranks fourth in the MPSF with 43 goals entering the MPSF Tournament to also lead the freshmen in the conference. Papanikolaou was named MPSF Newcomer of the week twice. He totaled three goals and seven drawn exclusions in a narrow 14-13 outcome against No. 1 USC (Nov. 16), leading to his second honor. His hat trick marked the sixth time this season he has scored three or more goals. His seven drawn exclusions gave him 65 for the season. Papanikolaou led the Bears with eight goals along with 12 drawn exclusions and three steals in four games at the MPSF/SoCal Invitational, which led to his first weekly award on Sept. 30. Papanikolaou, the only freshman to be named to either of the first or second All-MPSF team, is Cal’s fourth MPSF Newcomer of the Year (Johnny Hooper-’15; Luca Cupido-’14; Spencer Warden-‘06).

2019 MPSF Coach of the Year
JOHN VARGAS · HEAD COACH · 18TH YEAR · STANFORD
Stanford head coach John Vargas has guided the Cardinal to a 17-2 (.895) record entering the postseason, and a share of the nation’s No. 1 ranking. Thirteen of Stanford’s 17 wins have been against ranked opponents, nine against the top-10, and five against the top-five. From September 21-October 27, Stanford put together a 2019 MPSF-high 10-game winning streak. The Cardinal earned a conference-high five player of the week awards out of the 11 weeks, and has the top-two scorers in the MPSF entering the postseason (Ben Hallock-62 goals, Tyler Abramson-50 goals). Stanford also placed a high of seven players on the all-conference teams. Vargas is 360-107 overall (.771) since taking over the Cardinal program in 2002. This is the third MPSF Coach of the Year award for Vargas (2019, ’18, ‘04). He is the third to go back-to-back (Jovan Vavic-USC, 2005-06; Terry Schroeder-Pepperdine, 1997-98).

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Stanford’s Ben Hallock Repeats as MPSF Player of the Year

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Courtesy: Western Water Polo Association

2019 WWPA Men’s All-Conference Team

OAKLAND, Calif.– Loyola Marymount sophomore utility Blazo Mitrovic has been named the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) Player of the Year, highlighting Tuesday’s release of the 2019 WWPA All-Conference Teams. In all, 29 student-athletes from the eight WWPA institutions were recognized for their standout seasons.

Mitrovic, who took home Freshman of the Year in 2018, led the Lions with 80 goals on the year, finishing third in the WWPA with 102 total points. The Przno, Montenegro native registered 13 games with three or more goals, three eight-goal performances, and seven games with six goals or more. He earned WWPA Player of the Week honors following an eight-goal output against Air Force.

Air Force freshman Grant Snyder took home Freshman of the Year honors. His 52 points were third-best for the Falcons and the Springville, Calif. native scored in 11 consecutive contests to end the regular season.

UC San Diego led all WWPA schools with six student-athletes named All-WWPA, including two on the first team – utility Connor Turnbow-Lindenstadt and goalkeeper Jack Turner. LMU’s David Carrasco joined Mitrovic while the WWPA’s leading goalscorer, Marius Jakimcikas (99) of Concordia, also were named first team. UC Davis’ Nir Gross and California Baptist’s Logan Mena aso secured spots on the first team.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Loyola Marymount’s Mitrovic Nabs WWPA Player of the Year Honors

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CAMPIONATI EUROPEI VASCA CORTA 2019

• Glasgow (GBR) 4/8 Dicembre 2019
• Vasca 25 metri
• Sito web manifestazione
• Programma gare
• Nazionale Italiana

Federico Burdisso rinuncia a partecipare ai prossimi Campionati Europei in vasca corta, che si svolgeranno a Glasgow, Scozia, dal 4 all’ 8 Dicembre prossimi.

Il diciottenne aveva conquistato la qualificazione diretta agli Europei di Glasgow, ai Campionati del Mondo FINA di Gwangju. In Corea, Burdisso chiudeva quarto nei 200 metri farfalla, gara in cui con il tempo di 1:54.39, siglava anche il nuovo Record Italiano.

• leggi qui l’approfondimento

La rinuncia alla partecipazione ai Campionati Europei, nasce dalla volontà di concentrare la sua preparazione per i Campionati Italiani Assoluti, che si svolgeranno a Riccione dal 12 al 14 Dicembre 2019. A confermarlo è la squadra Tiro A Volo Nuoto, attraverso un post su Instagram.

I Campionati Italiani, saranno la prima occasione per gli azzurri di tentare la qualificazione alle Olimpiadi di Tokyo 2020.

• leggi qui i criteri di qualificazione olimpica

BURDISSO BEST TIMES

CAMPIONATI MONDIALI FINA GWANGJU

Federico Burdisso arriva alla finale dei 200 metri farfalla.

In quella finale l’ungherese Kristof Milak vinse l’oro stabilendo il nuovo Record del Mondo con il tempo di 1:50.73.

Burdisso fermò il tempo a 1:54.39, classificandosi quinto al mondo e stabilendo il nuovo Record Italiano

CAMPIONATI MONDIALI JUNIORES 2019 – BUDAPEST

Ad Agosto 2019 Federico Burdisso prende parte ai Campionati del Mondo FINA Juniores.

Nei 100 metri farfalla conquista la medaglia d’argento.

Con un passaggio ai 50 metri di 24.12, chiude secondo, portando a casa la medaglia d’argento con il tempo di 51.83. Il personal best di Federico Burdisso in questa distanza è di 51.73, nuotato al Trofeo Settecolli di Roma del 2018.

Inoltre, vince insieme a Thomas Ceccon, Mario Nicotra e Stefano Nicetto la medaglia di bronzo nella staffetta 4×100 metri stile libero maschile.

Nella staffetta 4×100 stile libero mixed conquista il terzo gradino del podio insieme a Thomas Ceccon, Chiara Tarantino, Costanza Cocconcelli.

Nella finale dei 200 metri farfalla Federico Burdisso conduce la gara per tre vasche.

Il primo passaggio ai 50 metri lo vede in vantaggio con 24.82, mentre Luca Urlando e Tomoru Honda sono rispettivamente quarto ed ottavo. Dalla terza vasca inizia il recupero dell’americano, che è secondo all’ultima virata.

E’ nell’ultima vasca che si decide il podio. Luca Urlando accelera e si porta negli ultimissimi metri avanti, toccando per primo la piastra in 1:55.02. Otto centesimi di secondo dividono l’argento Tomoru Honda ed il bronzo di Federico Burdisso, che chiude terzo in 1:55.39.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Burdisso Rinuncia Agli Europei Per Concentrarsi Sui Campionati Italiani

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Costituita nel 1973, arena da oltre 45 anni si pone all’avanguardia nella tecnologia dei costumi waterwear. Realizza prodotti rivoluzionari nel segmento pool per aiutare gli atleti nel performare al meglio.

Con una competenza di base negli sport ad alte prestazioni, arena fa leva sulla sua esperienza di body-conscious nella idrodinamica e nella forma attiva del corpo per creare una “second skin” che fornisca ad ogni individuo la sicurezza di soddisfare le proprie aspirazioni.

Applicando i valori del marchio di innovazione, autenticità e passione, i team di ricerca e sviluppo dell’azienda lavorano a stretto contatto con professionisti cosi come appassionati per progettare gamme end-to-end di prodotti tecnologicamente avanzati da utilizzare sia dentro che fuori dall’acqua. Si rivolgono al contempo all’intera categoria dei nuotatori, dalle persone attente alla salute e appassionate di fitness, a quelle che si allenano e competono ai massimi livelli dello sport. L’attenzione della società sull’eccellenza del prodotto si riflette nei risultati delle competizioni più importanti al mondo. Gli atleti che indossano prodotti arena salgono sul podio più di qualsiasi altro brand.

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by Olivier Poirier-Leroy. You can join his weekly motivational newsletter for swimmers by clicking here.

I love swimming.

I really do.

I love the feeling I have when I get out of the water after a great swim workout, I love that feeling when my stroke is locked on, and I love the process of chipping away at improving something technically.

And yet, there are days where the last thing I want to do is go to the pool.

Even though I know how good I will feel.

Even though I know it’s in service of my goals.

And even though I know a banger of a swim will help me sleep like a champ at night.

There are a bunch of different reasons why we might slacking with motivation, but a lot of it is a fundamental misunderstanding of how motivation is generated, and how we view it as being mandatory for a great workout.

Here are three of the things I’ve struggled with the most when it comes to getting motivated to go to practice:

1. How you are feeling doesn’t have to be connected to your motivation.

When we are in a good mood, when things are sailing in the rest of our life, it is easy to find the motivation to go to the pool.

It’s when you are tired. When you are stressed out. When you feel frustrated.

That’s when going to the pool and taxing yourself via a two-hour session in the pool sounds about as appealing as swimming backstroke head-first into the bulkhead.

Previous experience should tell you that you’ve had great workouts when in a bad mood, a good mood, or anything in between.

When you are having a meltdown of a day commit to going to the pool and doing the warm-up. Keep it simple. When we are already feeling overwhelmed thinking about the full workout makes us feel even more overwhelmed.

The fix: Give yourself a small, winnable goal (completing the warm-up is about as small and winnable as it gets!) to build some momentum and motivation.

2. Is your season-end goal completely disconnected from today?

We all have goals in the water. Some are more epic and ambitious than others, but we all have ‘em.

The problem with our goals is when they totally and utterly don’t line up with what we are doing today.

If your goal is to smash every single one of your PBs at the end of the year, but you are showing up to half the practices, you are going to start feeling demotivated.

When the work we are doing today doesn’t line up with what we are trying to achieve tomorrow we experience a big old drop in motivation.

The solution?

Work backwards from your big goal and figure out what the “perfect” week of training looks like for you.

Make that “perfect” week of training your goal.

It gives you something to work with today, adds a sense of urgency to your swimming, and gives meaning and motivation to today’s workout.

Make the process the goal, not the result.

3. Motivation comes from doing.

The big secret to motivation—that you already know, even if only intuitively—is that you get motivated after you start.

You don’t feel motivation when standing on the cold pool tiles before practice.

It’s not always in the car ride to the pool.

It’s not usually mid-day when you are groggily plying yourself with sandwiches at lunch.

It’s once you get in and get going.

Motivation comes from doing, not from sitting around.

This is why you should focus all your energy and focus on getting started.

If you go to practice each day and warm up to the best of your ability you are guaranteeing yourself an opportunity to have a great workout.

If you promise yourself to do the first rep at your best effort on the main set, no matter what it is, you will always have an opportunity to have a killer workout.

If you just start, you open the door to feeling the motivation to not only finish the workout, but to give it a five-star beating.

You know it, but I am going to tell you again…

The hardest part of a hard workout is getting into the water.

Really understanding this is critical: once you realize that motivation shows up when you are in action you can forgive yourself for not being motivated before practice.

Motivation comes from being in motion.

You know that the motivation to do the big workout will bubble up once you get in the water and get started, so feeling motivated suddenly isn’t a precondition for going to practice.

ABOUT OLIVIER POIRIER-LEROY

Olivier Poirier-Leroy is a former national level swimmer. He’s the publisher of YourSwimBook, a ten-month log book for competitive swimmers.

He’s also the author of the recently published mental training workbook for competitive swimmers, Conquer the Pool: The Swimmer’s Ultimate Guide to a High Performance Mindset.

It combines sport psychology research, worksheets, and anecdotes and examples of Olympians past and present to give swimmers everything they need to conquer the mental side of the sport.

Ready to take your mindset to the next level?

Click here to learn more about Conquer the Pool.

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Oksana Chaput, who hails from Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba, has announced her verbal commitment to the University of Minnesota for 2021-22. Together with Hannah Cornish from Port Perry, Ontario, that makes two Canadians for the Golden Gophers’ class of 2025. Eliot Kennedy from Bloomington, Illinois has also indicated her intention to swim for Minnesota in 2021.

Chaput is a member of the Manta Swim Club where she trains under head coach Robert Novak. She specializes mainly in free and fly and is a Canadian Junior National champion.

“I am thrilled to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and swimming career at the University of Minnesota! The moment I stepped on campus and met the coaches and the team, I knew this was a perfect fit for me! I would like to thank my friends, family and coaches for all their love and support. I’m excited to represent the University of Minnesota and be part of a history of academic and swimming success! Go Gophers! #SkiUMah”

Chaput is coming off a strong 2019 long course season in which she lowered her personal-best times in just about all her top events. At the Canadian Junior Championships in July, she won the 200m free (2:03.66), was runner-up in the 100m free (57.27), 400m free (4:24.88), and 800m free (9:11.77). She was also an A-finalist in the 50m free (7th with 26.91), 100m fly (8th with 1:03.33), and 200m fly (5th with 2:19.88). The 200/800 free and 200 fly were PBs. She also competed at Canadian Nationals in August and came in 7th in the 100m free with a PB of 56.90.

LCM times (converted to SCY):

• 50 Free – 26.39 (23.05)
• 100 Free – 56.90 (49.81)
• 200 Free – 2:03.66 (1:48.52)
• 400 Free – 4:23.75 (4:55.51)
• 50 Fly – 27.99 (24.58)
• 100 Fly – 1:02.09 (54.67)
• 200 Fly – 2:19.88 (2:03.49)

Chaput will be an immediate-impact player for Minnesota in 2021. Her converted 100 time would have made the B final and her 50/200 free times would have scored in the C finals at 2019 B1G Championships. In addition to her individual contributions, Chaput will be valuable on relays, as well. Minnesota’s 4×50 free relays consisted of three high-level seniors last year (Zoe Avestruz, Kaia Grobe, and Chantal Nack) and the 4×100 and 4×200 also included current senior Tevyn Waddell, which means Chaput will have an important role to play in the rebuilding of the sprint group. Freshman Jordan McGinty and sophomore Kate Sullivan are leading the charge so far this year.

For reference it took 23.10/50.57/1:48.56/4:49.02 in the freestyle events and 54.50/2:00.65 in butterfly to get a second swim at the conference meet last season.

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Kyle Brown from South Windsor, Connecticut has verbally committed to swim at Bryant University beginning next fall. Brown is a member of West Hartford Aquatic Team and he concentrates mainly on mid-distance and IM. He is a Winter Juniors qualifier in the 200/400m free.

“I am so proud to announce my verbal commitment to swim and study at Bryant University! I would like to thank my friends, family, coaches, and teachers for helping me through it all. So excited for the next four years! #gobulldogs

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Queens University’s men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams, as well as Stanford’s women’s water polo team, are among the group of NCAA champions scheduled to make an appearance at the White House Friday.

Update: Cal men’s swimming — which won the 2019 NCAA title — is also making the trip, SwimSwam has confirmed. 

The Stanford women won the NCAA women’s water polo championship in May of this year, while Queens are the 5-time defending NCAA Division II champions in swimming and diving. While Queens also won in 2019, it is actually the 2017-2018 championship squad that will attend – #4 in that run of 5.

Their visit is part of the second edition of “NCAA Champions Day,” in which multiple championship programs from the past two years will be honored. Winners of the Division I NCAA football and men’s basketball titles typically visit by themselves following their respective wins, so this day is meant to honor other teams.

As part of the visit, the teams are expected to meet with President Donald Trump, according to an announcement from USA Wrestling. White House visits have been a controversial subject in both collegiate and professional sports since Trump took office. A number of professional championship-winning squads have opted not to visit after a title run — including the Golden State Warriors in 2017 — while others have left it up to individual players to make their own decisions, as was the case with the Washington Nationals last month.

The Warriors drew ire from the president in 2017, resulting in a public disinviting of star Stephen Curry, while the Nationals made headlines when catcher Kurt Suzuki donned a “Make America Great Again” hat as multiple players embraced and praised Trump.

Stanford women’s water polo released a statement on Twitter Thursday saying it would ultimately leave the decision to visit Congress and the White House up to players.

“We are excited to be on our way to Washington as the nation’s champs visiting the nation’s capital, a privilege earned, as a team, this past May when we won the NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championship. But winning NCAA’s did not automatically warrant a visit: this group will be the first of our seven championship teams to go to D.C. Similar to the buildup for our summer trip to China, this visit is about learning and growing, focusing on academic preparation, to which each of us has contributed prior to departure. In keeping with our principles of Team First and Integration, we will do full team activities to learn from and engage with the city and its residents and our nation’s history and government institutions. And because Stanford women’s water polo is all about crafting and strengthening group alignment while acknowledging and embracing divergent viewpoints, we will honor the wishes of individuals as to whether they participate in visits to Congress and the White House.”

Queens — the only Division II team that will attend — also released a statement on the visit, saying 22 current swimmers and alumni will make the trip. The program did not address whether anyone is choosing not to go.

“We are proud of these young women and men for what they have accomplished.  It is an unprecedented achievement, especially considering the Queens swim program was launched in 2010 and our swimmers did not have their own pool until 2013.  We are thankful for the outstanding leadership and vision of our head coach Jeff Dugdale, and congratulate our swimmers and coaches for earning this honor,” Queens Athletic director Cherie Swarthout said.

“I am very thankful for this honor because our University is clear that we are in the business of people and experiences and this is another experience amongest the many experiences they have been afforded.  We look forward to representing our university, our program, and ourselves on this special occasion,” head coach Jeff Dugdale said.

Among the other teams to attend will be Oregon State’s 2018 College World Series champion baseball team; Penn State’s 2019 NCAA champion wrestling team as well as individual wrestling champions from Rutgers, Cornell, Virginia Tech and Northern Iowa; and seniors from Wisconsin’s 2019 NCAA champion women’s hockey team.

In 2017, eighteen teams from “several” sports made the trip for NCAA Champions Day, according to The New York Times. Multiple teams presented President Trump with personalized gifts that year, including custom jerseys representing their teams.

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By Ben Dornan on SwimSwam

The Ben and Caeleb Show

• Caeleb Dressel SwimSwam Bio
• Ben Kennedy UF Bio
• The Ben and Caeleb Show: Episode 1

Between a heavy training schedule and various ISL meets, Caeleb Dressel sat down with his former University of Florida teammate, and current best friend, Ben Kennedy to film a Q&A style podcast. Dressel, an elite professional athlete and Kennedy, a current law student opened up and gave some candid responses to a couple topics ranging from time management, to artificial intelligence.

Among the topics discussed were how Dressel managed all of his swimming with his school work in high school and college.

Dressel’s tips

• Make a checklist of what you need to accomplish in a day
• Set reminders
• Journal every night to record thoughts, conversations, how swim practice went, etc.
• Focus on the present; don’t worry about the future
• Don’t pull all-nighters
• Make your bed every morning
• Read at least 10 pages of a good book every day
• Pick up one piece of trash every day

The two also discussed what has happened to Dressel’s relationships with non-swimmers and Kennedy’s relationships with non-law students in their current career paths.

The two also discussed “talent’ versus hard work, Dressel’s relationship with Gregg Troy, and tell several anecdotes about their swimming.

Dressel recalled that when entering his senior year in college, there was a big expectation of him to break the 18 second mark in the SCY 50 free. Despite many people saying that he would be the first person to swim a 17.9, he believed that he had it in him to swim a 17.6.

Dressel went on to tell a story about a time that he vocalized his frustration with a former teammate who repeatedly showed up late for practice one week. He refers to the teammate as “Santy” and we believe that he is referring to Santiago Corredor, who Dressel swam with at UF. “If you were here on time, you would have heard the coach say the warmup” he said, clearly having no time for those who consistently show up late.

Dressel contrasted this mindset by explaining that if someone is clearly having a bad day or a bad practice, he does not see value in chastising them.

He then went on to share a bit of wisdom that fellow Olympian Katie Meili imparted to him: the days you are hurting, on the worst day or worst practice, try to find just one thing to work on, be it turns, breakouts, or any small thing and make that your focus.

They also discussed their opinions on the new NCAA regulations allowing athletes to get paid for the use of their likeness, to which Dressel said “I don’t know enough about it, I really don’t”

After briefly hypothesizing about the trials, tribulations and benefits of allowing NCAA athletes to make money, the conversation switched from swimming to video games. Dressel noted that this change would likely mean a return of the NCAA football video game that he once adored. The response ended with a ranking of his top 3 favorite video games from when he was aged 10-12.

1. NCAA Football
2. Blitz (2001)
3. Super Smash Bros

The talk wasn’t all about swimming, though. Kennedy discussed his experiences and gave some advice about law school, and the two took a dive into some heavy topics like artificial intelligence, and finding purpose.

In signing off, Dressel said that he hopes that he hopes the viewers enjoyed it and that it helps viewers to become better people.

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2019 NC State/GAC Invite

• Thursday, November 21 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
• Greensboro Aquatic Center – Greensboro, NC
• Prelims 9:30 AM / Finals 5:30 PM (U.S. Eastern Time)
• Short course yards (SCY) format
• Live results

Wisconsin’s Beata Nelson put up a nation-leading 1:53.85 in prelims of the 200 IM, one of many nationally-ranked swims from this morning’s Wolfpack Invite.

Nelson was a three-event winner at last year’s NCAA Championships and was named Swimmer of the Meet. She’s in line for a huge weekend if this morning is any indication. Nelson hit that 1:53.85 in prelims, qualifying first by almost three seconds. She’s right in the mix with what she went at mid-season last year (1:53.0 at the Texas Invite) before going 1:50.79 to win the NCAA title.

Nelson jumps to #1 in the national rankings, supplanting a 1:55.15 from Virginia freshman Kate Douglass. Douglass is swimming her own meet this weekend and went 1:54.30 this morning in Tennessee, so the two might be swimming off for the NCAA lead across state lines tonight.

Both 50 freestyles yielded times that would have scored at NCAAs last year. Duke senior Alyssa Marsh qualified first for the women, going 21.90. Prior to this week, only one woman had broken 22 this season, though at least three more, Marsh included, have done it this week.

That 50 free will have lots of national significance tonight. Auburn NCAA scorers Claire Fisch (22.05) and Julie Meynen (22.08) are also into the final, along with NCAA returning All-American Ky-Lee Perry, who was 22.12 in her first race this season after sitting out the fall dual meets for the Wolfpack.

In the men’s race, NC State sophomore Nyls Korstanje kept up a fast fall with a 19.13 to qualify first by more than half a second. Korstanje had some big long course swims in this same Greensboro pool two weeks ago, competing at the Pro Swim Series event. He should move to #1 in the nation with that 19.13 (pending, of course, the results of other invites this weekend), and is only a tenth off his lifetime-best of 19.03 from last year’s NCAA meet.

Other event leaders on day 1:

• NC State freshman Ross Dant had a nice swim in the 500 free, going 4:17.67. That’s a new career-best for the rookie distance man, though it’s still a bit off the 4:16.0 it took for an NCAA invite last year. Still, if Dant can hit personal bests in his 200 free (1:37.6) and mile (14:46.2) later this meet, he’s going to be in line for a monster rookie year of NCAA and ACC scoring.
• Teammate Kate Moore leads the women’s 500 free in 4:41.36. That would check in at #4 in the nation this year prior to this week’s set of invites, though it will move back some as more invite results continue to pour in.
• Wisconsin freshman Wes Jekel qualified first in the 200 IM. The homegrown, Madison, Wisconsin product was 1:46.80 in the IM out of high school and went 1:47.29 this morning. He should have a great shot at a best time tonight, set up to race NC State rookie Noah Bowers (1:47.84 this morning; lifetime-best 1:45.5) in the final tonight.

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British international swimmer Pia Murray from Preston, England has signed a National Letter of Intent to join the Florida State Seminoles in the fall of 2020. Murray currently trains with the Ellesmere College Titans, a program that has sent a significant number of swimmers to the NCAA over the last few years, including Lauren Wetherell to Tennessee who recently committed for the class of 2021.

Murray represented Great Britain at both the World Junior and European Junior Championships in the summer of 2019. Her best finishes at the European Junior Championships were 11th-place results in both the 50 back and 200 back in semi-finals; she also was 8th in prelims of the 100 back before scratching the semi-final.

She also led-off the British 400 medley relay that earned a bronze medal.

At World Juniors, she also qualified for the semi-final of the 100 back, where she finished 14th.

Best Times in LCM:

• 50 free – 27.35
• 100 free – 59.35
• 200 free – 2:08.95
• 50 back – 29.30
• 100 back – 1:02.27
• 200 back – 2:13.64

Florida State has added a mix of domestic and international swimmers in their class of 2020, including signing Hungarian Junior National Teamer Zsofia Kurdy, Texans Carson Kaufmann and Ashley Zettle, and Iowan Arianna Ottavianelli. Murray brings some versatility to the class, as Kurdy and Ottavianelli are both breaststrokers, while Kaufmann and Zettle are both mid-to-distance freestylers.

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With the construction of the various Olympic venues, including the $500 million-plus aquatic center, winding down in the run-up to the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Organizing Committee is still trying to find new ways to combat the blazing heat and pollution that have put the city in the headlines during the months leading to the Games. This comes amid the discovery of 187 bodies at the new National Stadium’s construction site. Here’s the latest on those stories:

SPECTATORS ALLOWED TO BRING DRINKS TO GAMES VENUES

According to Japanese news outlet Kyodo, spectators at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics can each bring one bottled non-alcoholic drink up to 750 milliliters into venues as a “special measure” to combat sweltering temperatures.

Having reviewed the test events held over the summer, they also intend to increase the numbers of drinking fountains and shade tents at venues, along with paper fans and cooling towels that can be worn around the neck.

Information about measures to combat heat will be distributed through the Olympic mobile app, which will also contain maps of each venue indicating “cool spots” providing shade, cooling fans and licensed goods.

TOKYO OLYMPICS GO GREEN

Innovations such as roads that reflect heat and water-absorbing pavements will help the Olympic Games in Tokyo be a “carbon-neutral event,” according to organizers.

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) sustainability strategy seeks to maximize the use of existing facilities, ensuring new constructions benefit local communities, and limiting the event’s greenhouse gas emissions.

By doing so, Tokyo 2020 organizers aim to offset all carbon emissions generated in an effort to reduce pollution during the Games.

REMAINS OF 187 BODIES REMOVED FROM NEW NATIONAL STADIUM PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION

Per The Japan Times, the remains of at least 187 people dating back to the early 1900s or before were retrieved from the site of the new National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward before construction began, according to officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The site used to be the location of a temple and a graveyard between 1732 and 1919.

The remains, including those of infants, were discovered when the Tokyo Metropolitan Archaeological Center investigated the site and the surrounding area from July 2013 to August 2015, when the old stadium was being knocked down, officials said.

The new stadium will be the main venue for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, and will seat over 80,000 with special temporary seating being installed for the Games.

THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCAST CORPORATION WILL NOT LIVE BROADCAST THE TOKYO OLYMPICS ON ABC RADIO

British news outlet The Guardian is reporting that the Australian Broadcast Corporation will drop its radio live broadcast for the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics.

The ABC has blamed budget cuts among the reasons Australian audiences will not be able to listen to the Tokyo Olympics live on ABC radio next year, ending a 67-year-old sports broadcasting tradition.

The public broadcaster has declined to buy the non-commercial broadcast rights from rights-holder Seven this year due to the cost of covering the Games as well as budget pressures and the “changing broadcast environment.”

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Olympic Update: Tokyo Heat Still In The Spotlight Amid Surprising Findings

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing Committee has announced the schedule for the 2020 Olympic torch relay. The Olympic flame will be lit at the historic site of Ancient Olympia in Greece on March 12th, 2020 – a day later than originally announced. After a week-long initial leg of the Olympic Torch Relay in Greece, a flame handover ceremony will take place at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on 19 March 2020.

A special aircraft bearing the name “TOKYO 2020 Go” will then transport the Olympic flame to Japan, landing at JASDF Matsushima Air Base in Miyagi prefecture, where local children will escort the flame onto a stage.

Olympic champions Tadahiro Nomura (judo), Saori Yoshida (freestyle wrestler), and Mizuki Noguchi (women’s marathon runner) will take on the role of delivering the Olympic flame from Greece to Japan together with Tokyo 2020 representatives. During the arrival ceremony at JASDF Matsushima Air Base, they will have the responsibility of unveiling the flame in its first appearance on Japanese soil.

A model of the special aircraft commissioned to transport the Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame to Japan will also be on site. The artwork on the side of the plane is designed to reflect the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch concept “Hope Lights Our Way” and depict the journey of the Olympic Torch Relay, consisting of an Olympic torchbearer pictogram emblazoned on the front of the aircraft, followed by an ochre-colored emblem along the side of the plane to the Olympic Torch Relay emblem on the tail. The flight of this special aircraft will constitute the all-important first stage of the Olympic Torch Relay, a journey that will be continued by the torchbearers on the ground.

The name of the aircraft incorporates the Japanese word “号” or “number,” the suffix used for the numbering of trains, buses, and aircraft. This also has a similar pronunciation to the English “Go!”, implying the start of a journey. The overall name is intended to reflect the plane’s mission to deliver the flame to the Olympic Games and the sense of anticipation as the Games near.

After the arrival of the aforementioned “TOKYO 2020 Go” aircraft in Miyagi, a special display of the “Flame of Recovery” will be staged in Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefectures from March 20th to the 25th of next year.

On March 26th, the Olympic flame will commence its 121-day journey through all 47 prefectures of Japan, passing by many of the nation’s most famous and cherished sights, serving as a symbol of the Olympic Games and visiting 857 local municipalities along the way.

The Olympic torch relay has no basis in the ancient Olympic Games, and was first introduced by Carl Diem for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.  In 2004 and 2008, the torch was transported on ‘global relays,’ hitting hundreds of countries around the world, but because it was met with widespread protests, the IOC announced in 2009 that future torch relays would jump from Greece to the host country.

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