Social Kick

Apr 08 2025 100 ep. 59 mins 55
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Swimming Storytellers: Authentic, casual and fun conversations with swimmers, by swimmers.

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Jassen Yep - The most surprising win of 2025 NCAA Swimming Championships | Episode 238

Apr 08 2025 51 mins  
As a 5th year, even Jassen Yep didn’t think winning an NCAA Swimming title was possible until he touched the wall in the 200 breast. After touching, Jassen Yep let out raw emotion and excitement, resulting in a legendary swimming celly. Although it seems like Yep was an overnight success, there was a lot of hard work behind this win. Yep was an accomplished high school swimmer in

2025 NCAA Swimming Recap

Apr 03 2025 110 mins  
In this special NCAA Swimming recap episode, the Social Kick crew recaps the most memorable moments of 2024-2025 in NCAA swimming season. We discuss the best individual swims (Walsh’s 46.97 100 fly, Crooks’ 39.83 100 free and many more), the overall environment of women’s and men’s championship meets, and rumors around the pool deck. Join us for a lively and insightful disc

Iona Anderson - Australia's Teenage Backstroke Olympic Medalist - Episode 236

Mar 25 2025 69 mins  
Iona Anderson is a teenage Australian Olympian and one of the best backstrokers in the world. 5th at her first Olympics individually, she came home with silver and bronze medals for her relay efforts in Paris. A native of Perth, West Australia, Iona grew up focusing primarily on gymnastics and didn’t even start swimming until age 12, so her rise to be among the elites happened qu

Quintin McCarty - Fastest Swimmer in ACC - Episode 235

Mar 18 2025 54 mins  
The best kicker in college swimming Quintin McCarty, the 2025 ACC 50 freestyle champion, could be looking to sign NIL deals in two sports if the Wolfpack football staff needs any help in the kicking game. While swimmers are getting more athletic every year, we don’t often hear about swimmers with hobbies that could potentially unlock legitimate opportunities in other sports. Tu

Cal Poly Swimming and Diving Suddenly Cut - Episode 234

Mar 14 2025 65 mins  
Cal Poly just had its swimming & diving program cut. No other sport at the school was cut. The school president says it will take $25 million to reinstate the program. Current Cal Poly swimmers Jen Reiter and Sabrina Bell joined us to share about the situation they find themselves in, how it came to this, and to ask for help. While scholarships across the nation are being slash

Claire Curzan Keeping Virginia Rolling - Episode 233

Mar 10 2025 60 mins  
Chlorinated Claire Curzan comes clean about crushing kicks and coaches tricks. In her first year competing for UVA, Claire Curzan, an Olympic medalist and World Champion looks to be on peak form heading into the college championship season. Already an NCAA champion from her freshman season at Stanford, College Claire picked up right where she left off, breaking the NCAA record in t

Chris Guiliano Wants To Be The World's Best Freestyler. Episode 232

Mar 04 2025 63 mins  
If you bought $100 of Chris Guiliano stock in ~2021 and held onto it, you’d be a very rich person right now. The man of many freestyle talents has been on a rapid rise dropping chunks of time like he’s 10 years old en route to securing 3 individual spots on the Olympic team last summer in the 50-100-200, the first U.S. man to do so since the legend Matt Biondi. Under the radar,

Leah Shackley Erika Pelaez NC State Episode 231

Feb 24 2025 68 mins  
Fresh Wolfpack faces. Same Wolfpack speed. Leah Shackley and Erica Pelaez have been racing each other for a few years already wearing American flags on their cap. Now they are in college on the same team and thriving. Backstroke prowess runs deep in Raleigh, so it’s no surprise these backstroke standouts found their way to join the bearded baron Braden Holloway to etch their nam

Camille Spink, Josephine Fuller, Tennessee Women - Episode 230

Feb 18 2025 71 mins  
Fresh off of a Dual Meet Attendance Record and in season best times, Camille Spink and Josephine Fuller of the University of Tennessee join us for a pre-championship season update. After a tragic start to the 2023-2024 season with the loss of Coach Matt Kredich’s son, the team battled through various ups and downs, finishing fourth overall at the NCAA championship. This season, t

Simone Manuel Superstardom Keeps Rising Episode 229

Feb 14 2025 63 mins  
A Legend Among Us Simone Manual, one of the best swimmers of all-time joins us to talk about life, swimming, and giving back. An Olympic and World Champion and pioneering figure as the first black American woman to win Olympic gold in swimming, Simone has quite the CV. But she is charging on, having recently kicked off her season with some rust-busting, “off” events and is sett