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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Swim Bros Podcast turns candid conversations with swimmers and coaches into practical insight about training, communication, and development in the sport.
Grant House treats swimming as a craft shaped by the people on deck, in the weight room, and in the water. His interview-led conversations draw on personal familiarity without stopping at reminiscence, moving toward how athletes communicate with coaches, how training decisions…
A failed swim set becomes useful data; you get a reason to ask what to change next.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, honest swim conversation that works best when coaching talk turns into life talk.
Mike White's move from burnout to assistant coach at Alabama Swim and Dive gives this Swim Bros episode its spine. The best stretch of the conversation sits in the overlap between coaching process, athlete mindset, and the ordinary grind of swimming life, where the talk feels…
A grounded swim-coaching conversation about networking, camp work, and earning the next step.
Episode 62 centers on a swim-coaching conversation with Kauli Bedran, Wisconsin's newest swimming assistant coach, and it keeps circling back to a plain idea: progress often comes from showing up, staying useful, and building trust before the next move appears.
A former Penn State Division I swimmer now lifeguarding on Venice Beach opens a grounded look at life after college swimming.
Episode 87 follows a former Penn State Division I swimmer who now works as a Venice Beach lifeguard, and that contrast gives the conversation its shape.
A plainspoken comeback talk between swimmers who know the grind.
The episode centers Andrew Brower's return to the sport. He talks through getting older, long workdays, and the daily pull of training, and the conversation works best when Grant House lets him stay with those practical details.
A loose, inside look at the coach behind ASU's breaststroke success.
The piece stays close to Arizona State's breaststroke success and Austin Palado's role as an assistant coach inside that room. The best parts are the small, lived-in details: the texts, feedback, memes, jokes, and the support system around the group, plus the odd timing of…
A coach's route from poolside fixer to trusted leader, told with real deck-level detail.
Matthew Gearing comes across as a coach whose authority was earned the hard way, through fixing a training system, staying useful at Queens, and gradually being trusted with more responsibility.
A grounded coaching conversation about creativity, adaptation, and staying willing to evolve.
The episode stays with Noah Hensley and circles around coaching philosophy, creativity, adaptation, and the slow grind of a long season. His path through Miami Oxford, NC State, Florida State University, and high school swimming in Florida gives it a personal edge, so it never…
A grounded Christmas special about the mental side of performance and the practical details athletes can train.
Swim Bros Podcast's Christmas special keeps its focus on the mental side of performance, with Tyler Pazek talking through his work as a mental performance coach, his master's degree at TCU in psychology, and the practical ways he helps athletes get better.
Swimming talk from inside the lane lines.
Swimming talk with meet-level detail.
Carl Blobaum says he went into Olympic Trials without a fixed mark, needed two meets to get his 200 butterfly cut, and still semifinals the event after Chase Kalisz scratched.
Swim Bros Podcast episode 75 centers on Matt Martinez, Wisconsin’s assistant coach, as he previews Big Tens, NCAA championships, and the shift into taper season.
Grant House and Casey McNulty focus on the final men’s Pac-12 Championships, with ASU swimming facing Cal and a meet history shaped by Olympic-year absences.
Grant House uses this Swim Bros Podcast solo episode to reflect on his post-U.S.
Swim Bros Podcast EP 84 brings on Mason Ford, described here as an entrepreneur, card game creator, and former Division I and Division II athlete with a track background at ASU.
Grant House sits down with Kauli Bedran, Wisconsin's newest swimming assistant coach.
Swim Bros Podcast EP 79 centers on ASU’s back-to-back Pac-12 title, with Grant House and Casey McNulty reacting to records, relay wins, and a women’s NCAA preview.
Swim Bros Podcast EP 88 with Aidan O'Hara centers on how an ASU swimmer ended up in Bob Bowman's orbit and became part of the program's early foundation.
Austin Pilato, the new assistant coach at Washington State University, discusses his transition from Arizona State, his coaching philosophy focused on embracing failure, and his vision to elevate the women's swimming program.
Matt Martinez returns to the Swim Bros Podcast for a rapid-fire NCAA and Worlds conversation centered on records, relays, and coaching decisions.
Casey McNulty launches Devil Dynamic with Grant House, an ASU swimming alumnus turned pro, to break down Pac-12 Championships preparation and the state of Sun Devil swimming.
Swim Bros Podcast EP 67 (S2E15) with Matthew Gearing of Catawba College focuses on swim science, weekly training structure, and how he organizes sprint, middle-distance, and distance groups.
Swim Bros Podcast episode 82 centers on what coaches do after NCAAs, with Matt Martinez breaking down how swimmers get sorted into Olympic progression, national-team progression, cut-chasing, and recovery groups.
Grant Douglas House hosts a solo episode reflecting on motivation, covering college football's FBS week 1 highlights, junior world swimming championships, and reviewing the Swamp Kings documentary.
Swim Bros Podcast marks the holidays with a Christmas special focused on Tyler Pazek and the mental side of athletic performance.
Grant House sits down with Noah Hensley, the associate head coach at Miami Oxford.
Carson joins Swim Bros for a conversation about how swimmers are built over time.
Mike White joins Swim Bros as the newly anointed assistant coach at Alabama Swim and Dive.
Kyle and Grant reunite to walk through the biggest swim news.
Austin shows up fresh off a practice where a world record had just been set.
Jack Little joins as a longtime friend, former roommate, and returning guest, and the conversation starts by catching up on where he is now.
Bebe Wang sits down with Swim Bros as a Denison friend, a Division III national champion, and a soon-to-be doctor.
Grant House brings on Andrew Brower, a former Ohio State Division I swimmer and Olympic Trials qualifier, for a conversation that starts with respect and stays personal.
Episode 87 brings a former Penn State Division I swimmer onto the mic as a Venice Beach lifeguard with a very different life after college.
Episode 80 brings Austin Pilato back to talk ASU, the Pac-12, and NCAA preview.
The show opens with sponsor shout-outs and a quick promise that the first half is the story and the second half is for the data heads.