Former Rutgers Head Coach and acclaimed swimming writer Chuck Warner (a frequent guest to Swim Talk A2B) has done it AGAIN. His latest book release, "How To Be A Great Swim Parent" is a compilation and distillation of topics and issues related to the parent-child-coach relationships the ASCA Hall of Fame coach has collected and refined over the years, and as 2024 NCAA Division II Coach of the Year Mickey Wender has remarked, "I can't imagine a better resource to help us focus on the 'right things' as we support the development of a young mind and body."
Join A2B hosts Bob and Dana in an illuminating (what? you thought we were going to say "fascinating"???) round-table discussion of a valuable slim volume that USA Swimming Board Member Coach Ira Klein says is "...an absolute joy to read...so critical to help educate new swim parents..."
You can get more details and info (and PURCHASE) this wonderfully enlightening book (and other great books by Coach Warner) at www.chuckwarnerbooks.com
Episode timeline:
00:01 – Disclaimer
01:09 – Chuck Warner Books
01:48 – Kelsie at The Jay
02:38 – Return of Chuck Warner
03:00 – How to be a Great Swim Parent
04:08 – The origins
06:52 – The Audience?
07:38 – Why competitive swimming?
09:12 – Support – Don’t Lead
13:27 – Our family’s swim journey
14:28 – Scenario
19:03 – The Henrys
19:32 – Swimming is hard
20:29 – Self-Image
24:50 – Attrition in the sport
26:36 – Effort over outcome
28:32 – Coaching is teaching
31:17 – Love difficult people…
35:40 – Goals
39:05 – Social Media addiction
49:25 – Carpools
50:26 – Book formats
52:25 – Team orders? (info@chuckwarnerbooks.com)
54:10 – John E. Davis 2extreme Dream (https://2xtreme.info/)
55:09 – Listening to kids
57:20 – Paraphrasing Samuel Langhorne Clemens
58:20 – Wrapping it up
