Inner City Swimming : Speakers & Interviews

I'm pretty excited about this piece and I hope all of you will get it out in your regions. Any of us who have been or are still swimmers can help bring swimming to areas that are limited.

Pull out that box of a million goggles, swim equipment, and swimsuits and bring them down to your closest pool in need.
Then try volunteer coaching.
Who has not felt like they wanted to give back to the sport that gave us so much?
Do it - you won't regret it.

Nice job G. Good interview, great questions, nice perspective.

Ben Sheppard, you are my new hero!
I sure wish I had met you at ASCA.

I'm from the Bay Area and I know what you are doing in Oakland is no joke... and finally just now, beginning to be appreciated.
I would love to have some of the charitable type events that we run with Masters Swimming, fund programs like our inner city swim teams who need help.
Talking about your great coaching staff, do you not have the great Ash Jones from Alameda coaching at Oakland Undercurrents? He has been raving about what you are doing in Oakland for almost 2 years!
Next time I am up north, I am coming to check your team out!
Keep up the amazing work building swimmers and future swim coaches.

Garrett,
You HAVE to get out there and document this program and this young coach's efforts. USA Swim has a diversity initiative and this guy's program is an example of it. I had goosebumps listening to his wish of turning his swimmers into coaches.

What an articulate coach. This kind of program speaks well for the notion that what you can teach, or role model, as a coach transcends the sport.

Ben is my brother, and he's also a hero of mine. His program is an exciting and invigorating addition to United States Swimming. I wish he was able to talk about it more. The things he teaches goes way beyond the pool for many of his swimmers, and for many of his fellow coaches. We need more like him.