Mat's Swimming Blog April 2008 Archive

The nation's top open water swimmers will bid for a spot at the 2008 Olympic Games when they head to Seville, Spain for the 5th FINA Open Water World Championships. ... Read More

Sports fans love talking about how their favorite teams and players will perform. But, these educated and emotional guesses are easy compared to predicting who will qualify for the Olympics ... Read More

The most vital time for a competitive swimmer is in the five minutes before each race. This is the time that makes or breaks a swimmer – often from this ... Read More

TYR's Tracer Rise features the first woven high performance urethane fabric ever used in competition. Wearing the Tracer Rise, Doug Van Wie set the World Record in the 4x100m Freestyle ... Read More

So you have Olympic Swimming dreams? GREAT! Not many make it, but if you never try, you never will! The first step is to get swimming. You could join a ... Read More

The 2008 Open Water World Swimming Championships are in Seville, Spain 3-8 May. Thirty-nine countries are represented by 55 men and 55 women swimmers. The swimmers will race in 5km, ... Read More

The final list of the 8 teams and 24 duets qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games is now known after the Qualification Tournament held in Beijing from April 16-20, 2008. ... Read More

What goes through a champion swimmer's mind before and during a race, compared to a regular swimmer? When two swimmers are at the same level of skill, talent and experience, ... Read More

There is no doubt that swimming is good exercise. But - is it a good exercise choice if your primary goal is to lose body weight? Apparently not, according to ... Read More

The team competition of the "Good Luck Beijing" 2008 Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Qualification Tournament concluded at the National Aquatic Center on Saturday, April 19. Spain claimed the team title ... Read More

Spain's Gemma Mengual and Andrea Fuentes won the first gold medal of the Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Qualification Tournament 2008 with a world class Free routine during the duet final ... Read More

Swimming pools, lakes, oceans, rivers, and the gym (think sweat) could destroy your iPod. Water and electronics have never gotten along very well. What if you could listen to music ... Read More

Logic would say that getting enough sleep is important for optimal sports performance, but there wasn't much evidence to support this theory -- until now. Some recent studies have found ... Read More

The "Good Luck Beijing" 2008 Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Qualification Tournament starts April 16. Headed by many-time Olympic and world championships runners-up Japan, a number of strong teams will vie ... Read More

Probably the biggest problem I have found facing most swimmers is a distinct lack of real belief in their own ability. I am not talking about external confidence (which is ... Read More

Team USA and Ryan Lochte ended the 2008 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships on a high note Sunday, taking home the Championship trophy for their overall performance in the ... Read More

Team USA's Jessica Hardy and Peter Marshall took home individual gold medals, bringing the U.S. overall medal count to 11 (eight gold, two silver and one bronze). In the meantime, ... Read More

So, Triathlon is on your mind again, and you're revving up your training to prepare for the next racing season. Swimming has been on the backburner during the off-season, and ... Read More

Ryan Lochte and Team USA’s 400m medley relay broke two world records Friday on the third day of competition at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships. Lochte took ... Read More

Jessica Hardy set one for the record books Thursday, breaking the world record in the 50m breast at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships in Manchester, England. Hardy broke ... Read More

I have a backstroke swimming problem which I do not know how to correct. When I swim back stroke I am not swimming straight - I am a crooked backstroke ... Read More

Team USA had a strong first day of competition at the 9th FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships, winning gold and breaking the world record in the men's 400m free ... Read More

This looks like a fun vacation for open water swimmers. Seven days of living on a yacht, swimming in the ocean, and relaxing (or recovering) on the beaches of the ... Read More

Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte will lead a field of 25 U.S. swimmers as they compete in the 2008 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships, April 9-13 in Manchester, England. ... Read More

The Milwaukee YMCA determined that it was not possible to run the Schroeder Aquatic Center and fulfill its other obligations at the same time. When this decision was made there ... Read More

World Championship Sports Network (WCSN) will provide live coverage of the 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) from April 9 -13 in Manchester, England. As the official global webcast partner ... Read More

Twenty-six of the nation's top swimmers, including five Olympians will travel to Manchester, England to represent Team USA at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships, April 9-13. World record-holder ... Read More

Olympians Natalie Coughlin and Klete Keller each captured their second gold medals of the meet on the final day of competition at the 2008 Stanford Grand Prix. Five more pool ... Read More

Peter Vanderkaay became just the fourth American to go under 15 minutes in the 1500m freestyle and won his second gold medal of the Toyota Grand Prix at the Ohio ... Read More

The U.S. Olympic Committee's Paralympics division announced today that 38 swimmers have been nominated to represent the USA at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. US Paralympics Team Head Coach ... Read More

Organizers of the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) are ecstatic as they witness the Manchester Evening News (M.E.N.) Arena transform into what could be the most exciting and entertaining ... Read More

Olympians Natalie Coughlin and Klete Keller collected their first gold medals of the meet on day 2 of the 2008 Stanford Grand Prix. With just one day to go in ... Read More

Katie Hoff won her third gold medal of the meet in the 400m IM on the second night of action at the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix at the Ohio State ... Read More

The 2008 U.S. Paralympics Swimming Trials concluded Saturday with a total of 10 American records and two world records broken on the final day of competition. Female Swimmer of the ... Read More

Competition finished Friday evening at the 2008 U.S. Paralympics Swimming Trials with several U.S. Paralympics swimmers earning new American records. Justin Zook was a standout of day two of the ... Read More

Day one of the U.S. Paralympics Swimming Trials at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center concluded with several new world and American records being broken. Iraq war veteran Melissa Stockwell ... Read More

Olympian Natalie Coughlin set a pool record and came within a half second of her own American record in the 100m freestyle on the first day of the Stanford Grand ... Read More

2004 Olympian Katie Hoff won two events, leading a field of Olympians on the opening night of the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix at the Ohio State University on 4 April ... Read More

Guy Baker, Head Coach of the USA Water Polo Women’s Olympic Team and Director of the Women’s National Team Program has been named 2008 National Coach of the Year by ... Read More

You can take part in the effort to stop malaria by swimming! The World Swim Against Malaria (from the Against Malaria Foundation) is a registered charity in the USA, Australia, ... Read More

Two meets half-a-nation apart this weekend, one in Ohio and one in California. You can follow the results on-line, see who is swimming fast and who needs a bit more ... Read More

Swim Log Software for Swimmers is a Windows based program for swimmers, parents, and coaches to track a swimmers race times and training in yards and meters. The program lets ... Read More