Inside with Brett Hawke

Brett, Nate, and Sonny talk about swimming. Mostly, SC European Championships.  Watch the show LIVE every Wednesday. Throw us some swimming knowledge in the comments section.  Support Our Sponsors: AQUAVOLO DRAG SOX : Build power and strength in the water with Drag Sox made by AquaVolo. Use code "brett" at checkout and receive 10% off.  SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills n...

Kyle Chalmers, Olympic Champion and WORLD RECORD HOLDER, stops by to chat and walk you through his newly minted Men's 100 Free SCM World Record swim. Swimming World Cup 2021   Kazan, Russia   10/29/2021  Kyle Chalmers, 100 Free Splits:  +0.65  50 = 21.40  100 = 44.84 (23.44) Support Our Sponsors: SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers wi...

Lilly King is the fastest woman in history over 50 (29.40) and 100 LCM Breaststroke (1:04.13). At the 2016 Olympics, her first international swim meet, she became Olympic Champion in the 100 Breaststroke and helped Team USA win the Women's 4x100 Medley Relay. She won the 50 and 100 Breast at 2017 World Champs. And yet again at 2019 World Champs. At the 2020 Olympics, Lilly earned 2x silver me...

Amanda Beard is a 4x Olympian (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008) and 7-time Olympic medalist (2 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze). Just 14 years old at the Atlanta Olympics, she blasted onto the scene winning silver in both Breaststrokes and gold as part of Team USA's 4x100 Medley Relay.  She went on to have a storied career: Bronze in Sydney in the 200 Breast. Silver in Athens in the 200 IM! Silver in At...

Brett, Nate, and Sonny talk about swimming. FINA World Cup Doha  Kyle Chalmers goes 45.03 in the 100 Free SCM.  Potential ISL boycott??  SC World Champs - Japan is out, Ahmed Hafnaoui is in.  Amanda Beard, Lilly King, and Bruce Gemmell Support Our Sponsors: THE MAGIC 5 : Custom fitted goggles that are tailor-made for your exact face. You shouldn't feel you are wearing goggles....

Olympic swim coach Bruce Gemmell is a coach for Nation's Capital Swim Club (NCAP), USA Swimming's premier club team with 14 locations, 1800+ athletes, and 65+ coaches. Most recently they produced three Olympians: Katie Ledecky (the GOAT), Andrew Gemmell (Bruce's son), and Jack Conger.   Bruce was an OT qualifier himself, swimming at the University of Michigan, where he learned all about energ...

Coleman Stewart is a professional swimmer for the Cali Condors. He grew up in York, PA swimming for Erik Posegay at North Baltimore Aquatic Club. He developed his underwater kick at NC State with Braden Holloway and became NCAA Champion in the 100 Backstroke.  Most recently, he broke the World Record in the 100 SCM Backstroke in a regular season ISL meet in Naples, Italy. His goal was to show...

Tatjana Schoenmaker won the 200 Breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics in World Record time. The South African became the first woman to ever break 2:19.  Her goal heading into the Games was to make a Final.  Tatjana walks Brett through all her thoughts and feelings from her Olympic learning experience.  She is coached by Rocco Meiring , who was on Episode #191.  Enjoy! 03:30 Life...

At the 2012 London Olympics, Tyler Clary won the 200 Backstroke.    Nine years later, he underwent successful open heart surgery to fix a leaky aortic valve. For every pint of blood his heart tried to pump, ½ a pint flowed backwards.   He won Olympic gold with a heart operating at only 70% efficiency.    Unbelievable.   Enjoy! Support Our Sponsors: THE MAGIC 5 : Custo...

Tom Shields is the 2009 Huntington Beach Pier Swim Champion. Also, a 2x Olympic Champion for the United States of America.  He joins us LIVE from Budapest to talk about breaking the American Record in the Men's 50 Fly this past week at the FINA World Cup Series. This was a best time for him by a few tenths. We talk about training underwater, being addicted to racing, his love for short c...

Marko Malvela is a 5x Olympic Swimming Coach from Finland. He currently coaches 3 of the 5 Finnish swimmers that competed in Tokyo. This includes Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (been together for 16 years), Mimosa Jallow , and Fanny Teijonsalo (who has been a guest on Dive Inside LIVE). Marko's group also includes Finnish National teamers Teemu Vuroela and Susanne Hirvonen . Marko is an expert in Biomechanic...

Jacco Verhaeren was just recently appointed the High Performance Director for French swimming leading into the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.    He spent the last year helping the German Swimming Federation and the 8 prior to that leading Swimming Australia.   And before that, the Dutchman coached Pieter van den Hoogenband, Inge de Bruijn, and Ranomi Kromowidjojo.   Enjoy! 00:00...

David Curtiss, USA National teamer and NC State freshman, announced today that he has inked deals with TYR and GoSwim. David finished 6th at 2021 US Olympic Trials in the 50 Free. He is one of Team USA's up and coming sprint studs.    He joins Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel, Michael Andrew, Beefy T Shields, and more as TYR sponsored athletes.    GoSwim , created by Glenn Mills ,...

South African teenager Matthew Sates joins us on the LIVE show to discuss his WJR breaking swims in Berlin!   At the first stop of the FINA World Cup in Berlin, Matt Sates broke 2x SCM World Junior Records: the Men's 200 IM (23.90/28.45/32.21/26.89) and 200 Freestyle (23.58/25.93/25.63/25.51), breaking Daiya Seto and Kliment Kolesnikov's records. This summer, at the Tokyo Olympics, Sates plac...

Last week we went LIVE at the UVA Orange vs. Blue intrasquad meet. We got to sit down with Head Coach Todd DeSorbo and talk to some of the team's leaders, including alumni and Olympian, Paige Madden .  Meet Matt Brownstead , Matt King , Noah Nichols , and Sean Conway on the Men's side.  Meet Alex Walsh , Kate Douglass , and Emma Weyant on the Women's side.  If you missed the live st...

Laura Sogar didn't make the Olympics in swimming, but does have the guts to get on stage and tell jokes. The 2013 NCAA Champion in the Women's 200 Breast for the University of Texas, Sogar no longer swims but she does make people laugh.    She does two weekly podcasts, both with plenty of humor.  Check them out here:   She Does Stand Up, Too?     Risque Business News...

Ryan Murphy brought home 3 more Olympic medals from Japan this summer, each one a different color. After taking an extensive break enjoying his friends and family, he's joining back up with the LA Current in Eindhoven for the Playoffs of the ISL.  Brett caught up with Murph LIVE on YouTube. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the channel. Enjoy! Support Our Sponsors: THE MAGIC 5 : Custom fitted goggles t...

Greg Bennett is a 2x Australian Olympian (2004, 2008) and former professional triathlete for nearly 30 years. Greg has competed in over 500 triathlons winning the ITU World Series twice. He is the host of, The Greg Bennett Show , a podcast focused on triathlon.  Greg has a strong understanding of the science behind training, which you will hear in this interview. Another Australian, anot...

Eddie Reese is the Head Coach of the Men's Swimming & Diving team at the University of Texas. He arrived in Austin, circa 1978, after 6 seasons at the helm of Auburn University. Since then, the Men's Swimming & Diving team at the University of Texas has won forty-two (42) straight Conference Championships and amassed fifteen (15) NCAA Championships.   Some of Eddie's swimmers include...

Wyatt Collins is the Assistant Coach of the Men's Swimming & Diving Team at the University of Texas. Enjoy! Support Our Sponsors: THE MAGIC 5 : Custom fitted goggles that are tailor-made for your exact face. You shouldn't feel you are wearing goggles. Use code BRETTHAWKE20 at checkout to receive 20% off. SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physica...

Rocco Meiring is an Olympic gold medal winning swim coach from South Africa. He coaches Tatjana Schoenmaker , the Tokyo Olympic Champion and the fastest woman in the history of the world in the Women's 200 Breaststroke LCM (2:18.95). Tatjana's training partner, Kaylene Corbett, came 6th in that same race. Prior to this, Coach Rocco was already a legend. In 1997, he became South Africa's first...

Braden Holloway is the Head Coach of NC State Swimming & Diving . This summer, he celebrated his 10th anniversary leading the Wolfpack. NC State has become the cream of the crop in the ACC. Eight times Braden has been named ACC Coach of the Year and eight times they've won ACC team titles. The Wolfpack has produced 7 individual NCAA Champions as well as 6 National Champion relay teams.  A...

The LA Current are fresh off ISL Match 5 looking towards Match 8 in just a few days. We talk everything LA Current with superstar sprinter Abbey Weitzeil and Head Coach David Marsh.    We talk about...   How the ISL has helped so many lesser known swimmers level up by giving them an opportunity to be a professional. What it has done for global swimming comradery and friendships -- t...

Tom Dean overcame two bouts of COVID to win the 200 Freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics beating out compatriot Duncan Scott and Brazil's Fernando Scheffer. He added a 2nd gold as a part of Great Britain's 4x200 Free Relay win. Tom trains with BFF Jimmy Guy ( Episode 83 ) under Dave McNulty at British Swimming’s National Centre Bath. His age group coach was Paul Lloyd .  Enjoy! 00:00 Swimming Spon...

Fred Vergnoux is the new technical director of CN Metropole de Las Palmas of Gran Canaria leaving his head coaching position at the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN). For the last 11 years he has coached Mireia Belmonte , winner of the Women's 200 Fly at the Rio Olympics. Some of his other swimmers including Alena Popchanka (Fred's wife!), Amaury Leveaux , and Kirsty Balfour . Before Spain,...