Learn the sport alongside your swimmer
Swim parenting, nutrition, how meets actually work, tech suit rules, officiating and the college recruiting path. Everything a new family needs and most veteran families still look up.
Every athlete safe, every time
SwimRise follows the USA Swimming Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy. If you ever need to raise a concern, you can go to any coach, or directly to the U.S. Center for SafeSport. You never have to go through us first.
Resources
Guides, videos and handbooks, grouped by what you are trying to work out.
Swim parenting 101
Start here if this is your first season on a pool deck.
Swim meets
What actually happens on a meet day, and how to read it.
Nutrition for swimmers
Fuelling a body that trains six days a week.
Tech suits
What they are, what they do, and the rules for 12 and under.
Volunteering & officiating
Home meets do not run without parents on deck.
Governing bodies
The organisations behind the sport.
The Swim Parents’ Handbook
The full USA Swimming parents’ handbook: the Ten Commandments for swim parents, your role on deck and in the car, what the research says about why kids actually stay in sport, and a ten-question self-check on whether you have become a pressure parent.
Inside
Swimming after high school
Recruiting guidance from junior year, plus the governing bodies and the financial aid side that nobody explains until it is late.
Getting recruited
Recruiting 101, how club coaches support the process, and what it looks like from a college coach’s side of the phone.
The governing bodies
NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA each run different eligibility rules, scholarship limits and recruiting calendars.
Paying for it
Financial aid, scholarships, 529 plans and FAFSA, plus SAT and ACT preparation.
Our alumni are the proof
See where SwimRise swimmers have gone on to compete.
Governing bodies: USA Swimming · Florida Swimming