The Swim Brief
A swimming podcast featuring natural conversations about the sport. Chris DeSantis brings the poolside conversation to the podcast form.
The Swim Brief
Latest Episodes
Wisdom Isn’t Taught. It’s Revealed
Jack Roach has spent a lifetime learning from coaches—and helping coaches and athletes learn from one another.In this conversation, Jack reflects on his time leading USA Swimming’s National Junior Team, where he helped create development...
Building Swimmers Who Want To Be There: Jonathan Kaplan
What makes swimmers want to keep showing up—not because an attendance policy requires it, but because they genuinely want to be there?Jonathan Kaplan, head coach and director of SwimRVA, joins Chris to discuss a collaborative approach to...
Building Culture in College Swimming’s Transactional Era
What does it take to build a championship-level program without allowing college swimming to become purely transactional?Stanford men’s swimming head coach Dan Schemmel joins Chris DeSantis to discuss his unlikely path from Hawaii to one...
Building Women's Sports Differently: Ted Lasso Season 4
Ted Lasso returns with a new challenge: building a women’s team inside a sporting structure created for men.Chris DeSantis and Juliet Suess discuss what the opening episodes of season four reveal about coaching, leadership and the system...
