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by Mark Seguin
Minnesota Swim and Vibe creator talks about the value of a swimming community and how Minnesota Swim and Vibe is aiming to enhance it in the state of Minnesota
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- 4 days ago12 min
Episode 8: The Current's Still Pulling
Before bringing the series home, Mark gets honest about what could stop this. In episode eight of The Long Course: four real barriers between the sport we have and the one we want — that change is hard even when we agree with it, that a calm pool hides a drifting sport, that good coaches clam up on things they're unsure of, and that nobody actually owns the health of the sport. None of them are villains. All of them are really the same thing: heads down. And not one is fatal — unless we let it be. Keep your heads up.
- 2 weeks ago6 min
Episode 7: The Family's Room
Parents get handed exactly one tool: the scoreboard. So of course they fixate on it — it's the only window they've got. In episode seven of The Long Course, Mark opens the third and final room: the family's. It's built on a counterintuitive bet — that giving parents a genuinely good window into their kid's swimming actually lowers the urge to pry, because most prying is just a parent grabbing for any signal when they feel out of the loop. So the Fan Zone gives families a real way to follow the team — the schedule, the results, the recaps, the season's story — without the firehose of data that only feeds the fixation. And following your own kid? That's gated on purpose: they get the code, they approve it. Even a parent comes in by invitation. Three rooms, one idea: you at the center, the world on your terms, your space protected. Keep your heads up.
- 3 weeks ago9 min
Episode 6: Stewards, Not Just Coaches
Coaches got into this to develop people — then drowned in paperwork. In episode six of The Long Course, Mark opens the coach's room: built to take the admin grind off your plate AND make it easy to recognize the stuff that never shows up on a results sheet. It's also the pipe that finally lets a coach's best work escape their own pool and count. Not more work — less of what you hate, plus a way to be a steward of the sport, not just a coach of your team. Keep your heads up.
- 4 weeks ago12 min
Episode 5: A Place to Belong
The always-on scoreboard doesn't just hurt the slow kids — the ones at the top are often the most anxious of all. In episode five of The Long Course, Mark opens the first of MSV's three “rooms,” the athlete's Locker: a private, personal space where a kid gets to be more than a time. The results aren't information — they're a verdict. This is about giving kids the other side of the sport, on equal footing. Keep your heads up.
- Jun 29, 202612 min
Episode 4: The Power of a Little
For three episodes we built the problem and found who could fix it. Now the real question: how does “everyone does a little” actually work? In episode four of The Long Course, Mark gets concrete — and a little fired up. The wisdom that could fix this sport already exists, scattered in every pool in the state: the right thing to say after a bad swim, the idea that made a meet fun, the recognition that landed. The catch is it’s trapped, because we’ve never asked anyone to look up from their own team and share it. This is the case for taking one small step — changing the routine by a hair — and a look at the home being built for the other side of the sport, so the little bit you do finally adds up with everyone else’s. Give a little, take a little. Keep your heads up.
- Jun 26, 20268 min
Episode 3: Who fixes it?
If swimming has drifted, who's supposed to fix it? Not the governing bodies — they make rules, not culture. Not the families — their focus is their own kid, rightly so. In episode three of The Long Course, Mark lands on the group that's actually left: the people whose stake is the long-term health of the sport. The milers, not the sprinters. Then the hard part — why they haven't, and the one path that might actually work. Keep your heads up.
- Jun 23, 202613 min
Episode 2: The Villain
If you only saw the promo for episode one, you probably think this series is about parents ruining swimming. It isn't. In episode two of The Long Course, Mark goes looking for who's to blame for the sport's drift — and finds there's no villain at all. Parents still love their kids. Coaches still care. Programs still want to thrive. What changed is the technology we use to share the sport: it made results instant, constant, and easy, while the deeper stuff — growth, belonging, the daily experience — got left behind. The result is an always-on leaderboard that quietly became the only measure of success. Nobody chose it. And that's exactly what makes it so hard to fix. Keep your heads up.
- Jun 21, 202612 min
The Long Course: Heads Up
The Long Course - Episode 1 : Heads UpNo coach will ever tell a swimmer to lift their head up — head down is how you go fast. In the first episode of The Long Course, Mark does the opposite: he asks you to look up at the sport and tell him if it's the best we can do. After a full swimming career and a twenty-year break, he came back as a parent and a coach — and barely recognized what he found on the pool deck. This is what he saw, and why he thinks the sport has quietly drifted. Keep your heads up.
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