“From gold medals to Coach of the Year honors, Jim Montgomery and Mo Chambers have done it all, including building two of the greatest masters swimming programs in the country. In Mastering Swimming, their expertness is evident on each page. This is a fantastic resource for fitness and competitory swimmers from 20 to 90.”
Tom Boak, USMS President, 1985 to 1989 Coach, Woodlands Masters Swim Team Masters Swimming Competitor Since 1978
“Jim Montgomery and Mo Chambers combine expertness and experience in this great book. Mastering Swimming covers each aspect of technique, training, motivation, and establishment that must meet the needs of each masters swimmer disregarding of age and ability. It is bound to become the standard reference on the subject for years to come.”
Cecil Colwin Hall of Fame Coach
From the Publisher“From gold medals to Coach of the Year honors, Jim Montgomery and Mo Chambers have done it all, including building two of the biggest masters swimming programs in the country. In Mastering Swimming, their skillfulness is evident on each page. This is a fantastic resource for fitness and competitory swimmers from 20 to 90.”
Tom Boak, USMS President, 1985 to 1989 Coach, Woodlands Masters Swim Team Masters Swimming Competitor Since 1978
“Jim Montgomery and Mo Chambers combine expertness and experience in this outstanding book. Mastering Swimming covers each aspect of technique, training, motivation, and institution that ought to meet the needs of each masters swimmer disregarding of age and ability. It is bound to become the popular reference on the subject for years to come.”
Cecil Colwin Hall of Fame Coach
About the Author
Jim Montgomery has held 10 swimming world records and won 9 world championships, 14 national titles, and 7 NCAA titles. As a fellow member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team in Montreal, he won three gold medals and one bronze. He was the introductory person ever to break 50 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle, a feat a lot of have equated to Roger Bannister’s breaking the four-minute-mile barrier in track. In 1981 he founded Dallas Aquatic Masters, one of the biggest and most successful masters swim programs in the United States, and has been it is head coach from day 1. Since 1998, Montgomery has also served as aquatics conductor at Greenhill School in Dallas. In 1986, he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and was the 2002 United States Masters Swimming Coach of the Year. Montgomery has competed and given swim clinics in Japan, Hong Kong, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Italy, Thailand, Mexico, and Finland as well as allround the United States. He lives in Dallas.
Mo Chambers was a software engineer for a huge Silicon Valley company when, at age 30, she decisive to take a occupation instructing a group of eager adult swimmers at a local health club. This side occupation soon became an all-consuming passion that would fetch her national recognition. Within a year she left her technology occupation to coach swimming full time. She took the helm of Mountain View Masters Swim Club and in seven years produced the club from 30 to more than 350 members. In 1993-94, she worked with well-known coaches Richard Quick and Bill Boomer on Stanford’s women’s swim team. In 1996, she was named USMS Coach of the Year. Chambers is a prolific writer for Swim, USMS Swimmer, and the ASCA newsletter. She is presently chairperson of the USMS coaches committee. Chambers lives in Vancouver, Washington.
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Several decades elapsed amid my brief high school competitory swimming experience and my foray into pros swimming, and I find myself astonished all over again at the way having a good coach motivates me and improves my performance. Why does a phrase or two of technical counsel or encouragement cause me to work harder and feel better regarding myself? Why is it that I’m more than willing to push myself to exhaustion just because someone is watching?
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