Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast

This week on the podcast we go back 25 years to 2000 and compare the coaching, the athletes and so much more to the now in 2025.

What has changed?

What has stayed the same?

We look at interesting trivia from the year 2000, as well as set of the week and your favourite, song of the week.

All that and a whole lot more

This week on the podcast we are joined by special guest, Olympian from Sydney 2000 and CEO of NSW Swimming Kirsten Thomson.

In this podcast we discuss Kirsten's amazing swimming career and her Olympic experience, as well as challenges she faced in the pool along the way.

We discuss her transition out of the pool and her decision to become CEO of NSW Swimming.

We talk about what she's proud of so far, what we can all do better, keeping coaches in the sport and a whole lot more.

Kirsten also takes the wheel for Set of the week, Quote of the week and Song of the week, it's a great chat with an amazing leader in our sport. Don't miss it

This week on the podcast Shannon and I apologies to our loyal listeners for not getting all of our facts right on the topics we discuss, as we are inundated with correction messages from the previous weeks podcast.

Shannon learns what Chat GPT and DM stands for, as well as his Beef of the week and no its not just with his cockatoos outside ruining his tree lol

Set of the week is back, we read out one of our listeners DMs with an interesting story to go with it and Chat GPT gives us the top 5 toughest races to do on a swimming program.

Song of the week and plenty of laughs 

Shannon is back for another week and we are discussing Process v Outcome mindset and how important it is for our athletes to stop chasing PBs.

We discuss Australian Open Water results from Busselton and give flowers to the clubs and athletes that performed well in WA last week.

Thanks to the help of one of our loyal listeners we finish our 10 Australia coaches currently on deck in Australia who have Olympic games experience.

Set of the week returns, song of the week as always and so much more

Back and ready to go The Shannon Rollason Podcast returns for 2025 and get straight back into the big topics around Australian Swimming right now.

We discuss Michael Bohl's big move to China, we get Shannons thoughts and what Australian Swimming needs to do to make sure we are keeping our top coaches.

We talk about the massive Channel 9 deal Swimming Australia have signed making 9 the home of swimming until 2034.

New Years resolutions, Australian Open Water Champs in Busselton, Shayna Jack in the Jungle and of course song of the week is back for 2025