The Swim Coaching Bible offers you an all-star, international cast of swimming experts sharing their knowledge on producing the most successful individual athletes and teams in the sport. This book is sure to be a classic—one that swimming coaches reach for again and again.
Specifically, The Swim Coaching Bible covers the key principles of coaching and program administration, conducting effective practice sessions, teaching techniques for every stroke, and training programs for every event.
Endorsed by the World Swimming Coaches Association, the book shares the wisdom of the world's best coaches, who address the topics they know best. Contributors include:
Richard Quick: Believing in Belief
Jean Freeman: Putting Fun Into the Swimming Experience
Peter Daland: Coaching With Integrity
John Leonard: Tailoring Your Approach to Specific Competition Levels
Jack Bauerle: Administering and Marketing a Winning Program
Skip Kenney: Developing a Successful Team
Bill Sweetenham: Maximizing a Swimmer's Talent Development
Jill Sterkel: Long- and Short-Range Planning
Bruce R. Mason: Putting Science Into Practice
Deryk Snelling: Applying the Art of Coaching
Rick DeMont: Freestyle Technique
Dick Hannula: Backstroke Technique
Pablo Morales: Butterfly Technique
David Salo: BreaststrokeTechnique
John Trembley and Gary Fielder: Starts, Turns, and Finishes
Michael Bottom: Freestyle Sprint Training
Doug Frost: Freestyle Middle-Distance Training
Dick Jochums: Freestyle Distance Training
Eddie Reese: Backstroke and Butterfly Sprint Training
Bill Rose: Backstroke and Butterfly 200-Meter Training
Jon Urbanchek: Breaststroke Training
Dick Shoulberg: Individual Medley Training
David Marsh: Relay Training
Randy Reese: Power Training
Don Gambril: Preparing to Excel in Competition
This is, without question, the most prolific and authoritative group ever assembled in a single swimming book. The Swim Coaching Bible is a book that will be treasured for many years to come.
Introduction
Dick Hannula and Nort Thornton
Part I Establishing Priorities and Principles
Chapter 1 Believing in Belief
Richard Quick
Chapter 2 Putting Fun Into the Swimming Experience
Jean Freeman
Chapter 3 Coaching With Integrity
Peter Daland
Part II Directing a Program to Its Full Potential
Chapter 4 Tailoring Your Approach to Specific Competition Levels
John Leonard
Chapter 5 Administering and Marketing a Winning Program
Jack Bauerle
Chapter 6 Developing a Successful Team
Skip Kenney
Chapter 7 Maximizing a Swimmer's Talent Development
Bill Sweetenham
Part III Creating Effective Practice Sessions
Chapter 8 Long- and Short-Range Planning
Jill Sterkel
Chapter 9 Putting Science Into Practice
Bruce R. Mason
Chapter 10 Applying the Art of Coaching
Deryk Snelling
Part IV Teaching Stroke Techniques
Chapter 11 Freestyle Technique
Rick DeMont
Chapter 12 Backstroke Technique
Dick Hannula
Chapter 13 Butterfly Technique
Pablo Morales
Chapter 14 Breaststroke Technique
David Salo
Chapter 15 Starts, Turns, and Finishes
John Trembley and Gary Fielder
Part V Training for Optimal Performance
Chapter 16 Freestyle Sprint Training
Michael Bottom
Chapter 17 Freestyle Middle-Distance Training
Doug Frost
Chapter 18 Freestyle Distance Training
Dick Jochums
Chapter 19 Backstroke and Butterfly Sprint Training
Eddie Reese
Chapter 20 Backstroke and Butterfly 200-Meter Training
Bill Rose
Chapter 21 Breaststroke Training
Jon Urbanchek
Chapter 22 Individual Medley Training
Dick Shoulberg
Chapter 23 Relay Training
David Marsh
Chapter 24 Power Training
Randy Reese
Chapter 25 Preparing to Excel in Competition
Don Gambril
Dick Hannula is one of the winningest high school and club coaches in the history of swimming. While serving as the boys' swimming coach at Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington, from 1959 to 1983, Hannula racked up the longest high school undefeated streak on record, winning 323 consecutive meets without a loss including 24 consecutive boys' Washington state high school swimming championships.
Hannula is a former multiple-term president of the American Swimming Coaches Association and is on the World Swimming Coaches Association board of directors. He is in the American swim coaches' hall of fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Hannula also authored the Human Kinetics book Coaching Swimming Successfully. He resides in Tacoma, Washington.
Nort Thornton is the head men's swimming coach at the University of California at Berkeley. Thornton's Cal teams have consistently finished in the top 10 in the nation over the past 30 years. Thornton has coached Cal to two NCAA Championships and was named the NCAA Coach of the Year in 1979 and 1980. An inductee into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, he has coached the U.S. national team at the Olympics and Pan American Games. He has also served the swimming community as the president of the American Swimming Coaches Association.
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