USA Swimming is a disaster. Michael Phelps says USA swimming “treated him like a piece of meat”. The executives are prepared to throw Michael Phelps under the bus to keep the gravy train (of executives being paid millions for doing nothing) going.

Michael tried to engage USA Swimming earlier this year and was brushed off. That’s when he put pen to paper drafting a letter that called for a systemic leadership reset at USA Swimming.

Behind the scenes, Michael faced relentless, overwhelming pressure not to release his letter.

Olympians mortgage their childhood for Olympic glory…yet behind the scenes USA Swimming can be embarrassingly clumsy, lacking in professionalism, and at times, they work against the very athletes they serve.

Compare C-suite salaries since 2010 to the Athlete Partnership Agreement stipends for national team members. APA support has been flat for 15 years, while executive pay has climbed.

The Olympic ecosystem is a giant warchest of cash, and business is better than it has ever been in history.

Instead, we have a board that reacts too slowly, dodges the hard stuff, and has historically been spineless on vision.