Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life
The Active Life presented by the Huntsman World Senior Games is a weekly 25 minute podcast designed to help listeners get the most out of their life. We tackle all kinds of health and wellness topics including the value of competition as part of overall active aging.
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life
#581 Continuous Improvement in Swimming and in Life - Featuring Mike Smith
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Michael Smith is a lifelong swimmer whose relationship with water began at age nine in a small Ohio town with no high school pool. Instead, he had a YMCA, grit, and a first-generation college mindset that later led him to a double major in business management and humanities, advanced graduate work, and a Six Sigma Black Belt. That early path led him to national-level swimming competition, a decades-long pause, and then a powerful return to the sport at age 60. Now 68, Mike remains a pure swimming sprinter who thrives on speed, competition, and continuous improvement. He competes against elite swimmers and former Olympians, chases personal bests, and credits swimming as essential to his mental health and resilience. With his dad cheering from the stands, Mike's story is about rediscovery, discipline, and proving it’s never too late to come back stronger.
