Great new interview with Brendan from SchoolTube.com

Brendan Fills in for Dara at Illinois Swim Clinic...

And TimtheSwimmer's friend Ollie was there and got his photo taken with Brendan. Yay!
More info about the clinic here.

University of Michigan Swimming & Diving sacrifice dignity for charity.

Brendan News

Olympians Show Support for Fallen Swimmer

FLEMING ISLAND, FL -- Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and Brendan Hansen were on the First Coast this weekend to attend a golf tournament in honor of Mac Crutchfield, a 12-year-old swimmer who tragically drowned last year during Tropical Storm Fay.

Crutchfield lived in Cairo, GA, and died when he fell into an overflowing dam last August. His family has started the Mac Crutchfield Fund in his honor, and gold medalist Ryan Lochte is the spokesperson for this foundation.

Lochte won two medals in the 2004 Olympics and four medals in 2008. He was joined at Saturday's golf tournament by Brendan Hansen, a four-time medal winner. The event was played at Eagle Harbor Golf Club.

There are photos of Brendan and Ryan at the tournament at the article site so be sure to click the link.

Pure performance for Austin-based sports drink

"When you're a finely tuned athlete that I was for 27 years of my life, you see the little things," five-time Olympic medalist Brendan Hansen said. "I'm talking hundredths of a second is what I was living by. Eddie Reese was giving me practices all of last year preparing me for the Olympics and never once did I say, 'Coach, I've got nothing left.'"

Hansen's such a believer in the product that he's shed his speedo for a desk job with the company, although he's not totally ruling out a comeback.

Brendan Press

The unemployed Olympic athlete

Article about the current plight of so many of our favorite professional swimmers focusing primarily on Lezak but with a little Brendan shout out in there as well.

Seton Southwest to hold gala with top athletes

Activities will include a Texas Hold 'em poker tournament, food, wine, and the opportunity to be photographed with athletes such as Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Brendan Hansen, Olympic swimmer Gilbert Tuhabonye, three-time medalist Whitney Hedgepeth, elite marathoners Chris Kimbrough and Cassandra Henkiel, NCAA All-America runner and founder of the Gazelle Foundation Carmen Troncoso, and RunTex owner Paul Carrozza. Many of the athletes live in Southwest Austin, and use Seton Southwest as their community hospital.

Heisman, Olympic winners among additional stars for Beyond the Lights Celebrity Golf Classic

Olympic swimmers Aaron Piersol (right) and Brendan Hansen, former UT quarterback Donnie Little, sports broadcaster Brian Jensen, former UT head coach David McWilliams, NFL coach Ron Meyer, actor/musician Chris Mulkey and comedian John O'Connell are on board.

Happy 18th Birthday TimtheSwimmer!

I can't believe you're 18 already and getting ready to graduate. You were just a weee 6'2"ish 14 year old age group swimmer begging for a USA Swimming pin when you started posting at BHO and now you're all grown up getting ready to go off to college.

They just grow up too fast.

Brendan press conferance appearance...

Brendan joined Texas State Senator Jane Nelson at press conference supporting fitness legislation for school children...

The fitness study was mandated by legislation passed last session - Senate Bill 530 - that requires daily exercise for students in grade K-8 and an annual health assessment of students in grades K-12. The results unveiled Monday were touted as part of the "first-of-its-kind" study.

"All these results confirm what the ancient Greeks knew and talked about and that is that there are very strong connections between sound bodies and sound minds," said state Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, who co-authored SB 530.

Joined at the press conference by Olympic gold medal swimmers Brendan Hansen and Garret Weber-Gale, Perry referred to the study's findings as "irrefutable evidence" and urged Texans to engage in exercise activities like "walking around the mall," or "going to the Fiesta parade."

"The bottom line is get some exercise," he said. "It'll do you good."

But Perry's call to lawmakers to allocate almost $8 million for a proposed incentive-based pilot program for the16 school districts with the lowest FTINESSGRAM performance, drew lukewarm responses from members during from an afternoon meeting of a house education subcommittee.

During testimony, subcommittee chairman Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston, asked Texas Education

Agency officials whether the results from the statewide study showed an actual correlation between physical fitness and academic performance or if the results simply highlighted the disparity "between kids who had the discipline in all regards," and those who didn't. And if the study does, indeed, prove an actual correlation between physical fitness and academic performance, could the state pump $8 million "to improve academic performance" with the hopes that students will also get fitter?

"We're showing a correlation, and I don't know which way it goes," Hochberg said. "We're in the education business, not the aerobics business."