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014 | FEELIN’ ITby Michael J. StottCore strength and feel for the water are keys to fast swimming. Of growing significance—especially for more advanced swimmers—is massage, a hands-on treatment first used by the Chinese more than 3,000 years ago.

022 | ROAD TO SUCCESSby Jeff CommingsWhen it comes to winning, the Carmel (Ind.) High School girls’ swimming team—winners of Swimming World Magazine’s 2014 Girls’ High School Championships—knows the right path to take.

ON THE COVERCarmel (Ind.) High School girls’ swimming team dominated during the 2013-14 high school sea-son. It all started when the Greyhounds won their 28th consecutive state title back in February. The times turned in there were fast enough for Carmel to be named the overall girls’ national high school champions by Swimming World Magazine for the second straight year—and third in the last four years. It was also its eighth national public school championship. (See stories, pages 22 and 24).

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026 |SMALL-TOWN SCHOOL SCORES BIGby Jeff CommingsChesterton, Ind.—a town of a little more than 13,000—is receiving national notoriety as Swimming World Magazine crowned Chesterton High School as the best boys’ high school swimming team in the United States.

032 |WHO’S NO. 1?by Jeff CommingsIf you read this issue of Swimming World Magazine page by page, you’ll know that Carmel and Chesterton—both high schools from Indiana—were the respective top girls’ and boys’ teams this past season. But who turned in the top high school performances of the year in each event? Read on...

034 |Top 10 Triumphs & Tragediesby Chuck WarnerBeginning in its April issue and continuing monthly through January 2015, Swimming World Magazine is counting down the top 10 triumphs and tragedies in the history of swimming. This month: #5 USA Turns Out Olympic Lights.

COACHING

010 |LESSONS WITH THE LEGENDS: DON SWARTZ

by Michael J. Stott

012 |TECHNIQUE: PULL AND KICK...IT’S ALL IN THE TIMINGby Jeff CommingsMany view butterfly as the toughest stroke to master in terms of getting the timing correct for the pull and kick. No matter the age, you’ll have no trouble finding at least a few swimmers struggling to put the two dolphin kicks per stroke in the right place. The best way to work on this is with one-arm butterfly, progressing to regular butterfly when you feel like the timing has improved.

016 |SWIMMING TECHNIQUE MISCONCEPTIONS: THE GLIDE PHASEby Rod HavrilukA common swimming technique miscon-ception is that there is a glide phase (or a longer glide phase) when it would be better to generate propulsion immediately.

027 |CHESTERTON HIGH SCHOOL’S FAVORITE SETSby Jeff Commings and Kevin Kinel

041 |Q&A WITH COACH ANNE GOODMAN JAMESby Michael J. Stott

042 |How They Train JORDAN DEGAYNERby Michael J. Stott

TRAINING

038 |DRYSIDE TRAINING: GET STRONG...AT HOME!by J.R. Rosania

039 |NUTRITION: TO CARB OR NOT TO CARB?Republished with permission of VeloPress from “The Feed Zone Cookbook: Fast and Flavorful Food for Athletes”

040 |Ask Dr. Shannonby Shannon McBrideHere are four exercises that can be per-formed three times a week to strengthen and develop your core.

JUNIOR SWIMMER

018 |Goldminds: THE 5 R’sby Wayne GoldsmithFocus on the top five mental skills to become a more successful swimmer.

045 |Up & Comers

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008 |A Voice for the Sport

046 |Gutter Talk

048 |Parting Shot

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The challenges that high school students face today are so much more than what I had to deal with more than 50 years ago.

But a good high school swimming program today can provide a safe ha-ven for them, where they don’t have to be challenged to take drugs or attend parties where alcohol, drugs and sex are expected to have “fun.” They’ll see that it’s OK to strive for good grades, show respect to their elders, communicate without every other word being a swear word, take pride in their appearance, etc.

Accountability, consequences and responsibility seem to be slipping away from the goals of education: if you don’t study and fail a test, that’s OK because you can take it over again; parents will lie to protect their children from the consequenc-es of being tardy or missing school for reasons that are not valid; stan-dards are lowered so that nobody fails; and on it goes.

Good coaches can help correct some of these flaws in the system. They can be a positive influence to those they work with, and they can help prepare them for adulthood. This responsibility should not be pushed aside to replace the philoso-phy of winning is all that matters.

High school swimming offers student-athletes the opportunity to learn so much more than swim-ming fast: sacrifice, goal setting, cop-ing with disappointment, teamwork, building self-esteem, discipline, etc. Children should not be deprived of the opportunity to be on a high school team and enjoy the benefits a good program can offer.

Some of the reasons high school swim-ming is so popular include:

• There are no entry fees for high school meets.

• Traveling is taken care of by the school.

• High school meets are done in one-and-a-half to two hours.

• There is a meet each week dur-ing the season.

• Relays make the high school meets fun, and they help to develop the team concept.

• High school swimming often re-ceives good newspaper coverage, es-pecially in the smaller communities.

Conflict arises when:• Club coaches feel that the high

school coaches do not coach at the same level as they do.

• Club coaches feel that swim-mers are wasting their time by swim-ming high school because college coaches only look at club swimmers when recruiting.

• Club coaches feel that high school swimming does not offer the competition swimmers need to reach their full potential.

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The answer lies in good com-munication and cooperation be-tween club coaches and high school coaches. They need to sit down and talk about how a swimmer can par-ticipate in both programs. It takes some give-and-take from both sides to work toward a solution that will be what is best for the swimmer.

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Q. RICK DEMONT SAYS YOU ARE INSPI-RATIONAL, A DEEP THINKER AND THAT YOU WOULD BE BORED WITHOUT A PROBLEM TO SOLVE.A. I’m inclined to agree. I do want to make a difference.Q. HOW INFLUENTIAL WAS “CECIL COL-WIN ON SWIMMING” TO YOUR INITIAL SUCCESS?A. It was a starting point. Initially, I tended to believe everything I read or heard. Now I listen more and talk less. If a coach really watches swim-mers, he can learn a lot. The trick is to convert that info into meaningful knowledge.Q. YOU GOT GREAT RESULTS TRAINING IN A 6-LANE, 25-YARD POOL.A. Water is water—generally, the amount and quality isn’t that im-portant. We swam fast because the kids really liked swimming fast and loved to race. They raced for fun and satisfaction. Today, North Bay Aquat-ics trains primarily in an 8-lane, 4.5-foot-deep pool, built in the early ’60s. It is still racing first. Technique and strategy are much more impor-tant than times.Q. HOW DID YOU ADAPT RACE WALKING CYCLE TRAINING TO SWIMMING?A. I learned that the specificity of training and how the body got stronger during recovery made a

lot of sense. At the time, we weren’t swimming very fast, so I convinced the kids to try it for six months with the promise to re-evaluate. I have been doing it ever since, modifying as we go.Q. YOU BELIEVE EXPLORING “NEW TERRITORY” IS CRUCIAL TO BUILDING SWIMMER CONFIDENCE.A. Coaches are in the business of get-ting kids to do something they have never done—and sometimes what no one has ever done! Confidence is crucial to taking a leap of faith. If you are willing to fail, success will come if you keep leaping.Q. SWIMMING DEVELOPMENT TODAY...A. ...has changed immensely. Yes-teryear, exceptional high school boys could compete with college-age guys. Now they cannot compete with 25-30-year-olds. Occasionally, a teenage girl who has the total pack-age can. We don’t have facility access in Marin to attract a true post-grad-caliber group. However, I believe that some swimmers who come through our program will be at the world level before they retire. That is very satisfying. Daily we teach stroke technique, being race ready and mentally tough. These qualities can take someone to the top if they so choose.

Q. AS AN ASCA HALL OF FAMER, HOW DO YOU CONTINUE TO GROW AS A COACH?A. Each of us grows into something, someone. I can be a part of that pro-cess for our swimmers. I continue to evaluate my skill set, always working to improve my effectiveness. I judge that effectiveness by how well the swimmer handles the vagaries of our game and by how fast they ultimate-ly swim. In my experience, speed fol-lows the process.Q. YOU AND KEN DEMONT STARTED A SWIMMING BLOG.A. Originally, we considered lever-aging our on-deck coaching into a business by offering online coach-ing, workouts and stroke analysis. In the end, we didn’t possess the skill set to take the in-person coaching to the online level. Swimcoachdirect.com was a way to add value by shar-ing coaching insights. The blog is fun to write and free with no advertis-ing. People continue to sign up for it worldwide and communicate with us so we know there is value. Writing helps me clarify my thoughts.

Michael J. Stott, one of Swimming World Magazine’s USA contributors, is based in Richmond, Va.

SWIMMING WORLD CONTINUES A SERIES IN WHICH TOP COACHES SHARE SECRETS OF THEIR SUCCESS. THIS MONTH’S FEATURED COACH: DON SWARTZ

LESSONS with the LEGENDS BY MICHAEL J. STOTT

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Many view butterfly as the toughest stroke to master in terms of getting the timing correct for the pull and kick. No matter the age—from beginning age groupers to Masters swimmers—you’ll have no trouble finding at least a few swimmers struggling to put the two dolphin kicks per stroke in the right place. The best way to work on this is with one-arm butterfly, progressing to regular butterfly when you feel like the timing has improved.

T E C H N I Q U E

IT’S ALL IN THE TIMINGBY JEFF COMMINGS • TECHNIQUE PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER RATTRAY

Although Matt Grevers is the reigning Olympic and world cham-pion in the 100 backstroke, he often races butterfly as well. At the 2013 USA Swimming nationals, he was second in the 50 meter fly. He went on to place 12th at the World Cham-pionships.

1 KICK #1 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STROKE

When the hands enter the water from the recovery, the head re-enters the water after the breath. At this point, the feet lift to start the kick. With no hesitation, the downward kick takes place to help drive the body forward and press the hips up-ward. Of the two kicks per arm stroke done in butterfly, this one is typically the stronger, and it usually is done underwa-ter.

2 KICK #2 AT THE FINISH OF THE PULL

Before the hands exit the water for the recovery, the second kick takes place. This one typically has the feet exiting the wa-ter, but not too much! The goal is to kick more water than air, so don’t allow more than your feet to break the surface. The best butterflyers create very little splash with this kick. Because the torso is lifting at this point in the stroke, the hips are at their lowest point, so the kick should ac-centuate the finish of the pull.

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Fundamentally, massage is the manipulation of soft body tissue that functions as therapy, rehabilitation, stress reduction, an adjunct to athlet-ic training or simply an indulgence. From a competitive standpoint, mas-sage makes muscles more receptive to performance and, more important-ly, recovery. Therapists are in near universal agreement that massage is not designed to replace current pre- or post-meet practices, but more an enhancement of existing training.

USA Swimming’s National Team Director Frank Busch recalls seeing massage therapists on deck at U.S. nationals in the 1970s.

“These days, I’d say that 90 per-cent of teams that go (to nationals) have at least one massage therapist. At Tucson Ford (and the University of Arizona), we would take two (to na-tionals) and two to NCAAs, depending on the size of the team. I’d be shocked if teams at NCAAs didn’t have a mas-sage therapist. All big-time coaches and athletes understand the benefits of massage and what kind of impact it makes on their performance,” says Busch.

USA Swimming provides the ser-

vice as a matter of course for team members at the Olympics, World Championships and Grand Prix events.

“We would not provide the service during selection meets, as it would be an unfair advantage,” says Busch. “However, athletes often have mas-sage therapists accompany them with the teams they represent.”

NUMEROUS BENEFITS OF MASSAGEThe University of Florida has used

LMTs since the mid-’70s for clinical, maintenance and event massage.

“UF swimmers and divers receive weekly massages during the cham-pionship season,” says Ricky Ray, uni-versity sports massage provider, “and as a training tool to decrease recov-ery time to continue at the elite level UF requires,” he says.

Ray cites increased circulation, range of motion, flexibility, decreased recovery time, relaxation from day-to-day stress, injury recovery and prevention as massage benefits. “At meets, pre-event massage increases circulation and warms up the mus-cles, while post-event massage flush-es out metabolites due to cellular

function,” he says.“Timing is everything when it

comes to massage. An athlete would not want a relaxation or deep tis-sue massage before a competition. Knowing when to use the proper type of massage is key to enhancing athletic performance,” says Ray.

When it comes to application, athletes “like different touches,” says Busch. “All of them like to be rubbed out afterward for the purposes of stimulating recovery. The more cir-culation you get, the quicker you re-cover,” he says. “Prior to races, some swimmers just want a shakeout—just a light touch—but after they’ve per-formed, that’s when the massage is a little more lengthy.”

Former University of Florida swimmer, five-time Olympian and 12-time medalist Dara Torres, made sports massage an integral part of

PICTURED > USA SWIMMING’S NATIONAL TEAM DIRECTOR FRANK BUSCH HAS SEEN AN INCREASE IN MASSAGE THERAPISTS OVER THE YEARS AT NUMEROUS SWIM MEETS: “ALL BIG-TIME COACHES AND ATHLETES UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS OF MASSAGE AND WHAT KIND OF IMPACT IT MAKES ON THEIR PERFORMANCE.”

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Core strength and feel for the water are keys to fast swimming. Of growing significance—especially for more advanced swimmers—is massage, a hands-on treatment first used by the Chinese more than 3,000 years ago.

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her swimming routine.“When in college and training

in later years, I got massage, and it helped my muscles recover quicker than anything I did. It got lactic acid out of my system so my next workout or race would be the best possible,” she says.

A recent beneficiary of Ray’s tactile skills is 18-time All-American and Olympian Elizabeth Beisel.

“We got massages twice a week for 20 minutes during championship season, starting four weeks out lead-ing to our big meet. Ricky is extremely personable and does an amazing job,” she says. “I got those massages imme-diately following afternoon practice, which was ideal. I don’t generally like to get a massage before getting into the water because it makes me feel too loose.” Now a professional, Beisel says she will probably use massage even more, scheduling it on her own and taking advantage of national team privileges.

At the University of Texas, wom-en’s coach Carol Capitani reports the Lady Longhorns “definitely use massage therapists at big meets. We

also have access to several therapists who work within the athletic depart-ment during the meat of our season. Our athletes are scheduled for one 30-minute massage per week start-ing in October through conference.

The swimmers and divers really ap-preciate the treatment, and I really believe it helps speed the recovery process when training and racing are most intense,” she says.

EVOLUTION OF MASSAGEKeenan Robinson, head athletic

trainer for the 2012 Olympic team, is in his second tour of duty with the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Like others, he has witnessed the evolu-tion of massage from just champion-ship meet to near daily use.

In kinesiologic terms, he cites four main benefits of massage. He notes that massage can desensitize free nerve endings for pain modulation.

“After a difficult training session or race, the impact of increased blood flow, repetitive muscle use and pres-sure on joint receptors through mas-sage can help with the pain relief process.

“It can also remove metabolic rac-ing/training waste through the use of lymphatic work, calm the sympa-thetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and aid in injury prevention and rehabilitation. Specific types of

soft tissue work aids and assists in the prevention and recovery of soft tissue adhesions and myofascial re-striction that occurs due to the adap-tive shortening,” Robinson says.

“The evolution of massage and

soft tissue treatments has come so far,” he says. “It used to be used only at championship meets. Now I know of some swimmers who receive mas-sages one to three times a week. I be-lieve each swimmer and coach have their own methodology behind when it should be used. It is imperative that the athlete, coach and soft tissue practitioner work in unison in setting up a systematic plan for when and how soft tissue massage is used. If used during training season, it should be to keep the swimmer training at a world-class level, not as an alter-native to training. At meets, it should be utilized to assist in the recovery process—after a thorough in-water cool-down.”

At NBAC, massage is not used with any swimmer who does not have a national cut. Even then, only age group-level athletes on the national team—such as Becca Mann, Gillian Ryan and Cierra Runge—have mas-sage available to them. There is a place, says Robinson, where specific exercises and soft tissue modalities, such as Graston Technique and DMT (Dynamic Motion Therapy) can assist age group swimmers who are recov-ering from certain joint injuries.

Robinson believes that an initial foray into massage for age groupers depends upon ability level and over-all tissue quality.

“There are very few cases where the most talented 12-year-old in our country would have the soft tissue adhesions and adaptive shortening that would necessitate a massage,” he says. “I think a solid team approach—meaning coach, swimmer and quali-fied experienced provider—is the best way to approach massage.”


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DEFINITION AND EXAMPLESThe most effective position for

gliding is the streamline position as shown by the model in Fig. 1. When a body is moving faster than swim-ming speed, the streamline is benefi-cial because it minimizes resistance.

Optimally, no body parts move out of position while the swimmer is in a streamline glide. However, while resistance is minimal, there is no propulsion. Without propulsion, the velocity slows rapidly.

For example, when a swimmer pushes off from a wall, he or she may be moving faster than 3 m/sec (as shown in Fig. 2–next page, top– with data excerpted from Craig, Termin & Pendergast, 2006). After only 1 sec of gliding, the velocity may be less than 2 m/sec. If a swimmer plans to swim at about 2 m/sec, propulsion must begin before the body slows below that point.

During the underwater pull and kick on a breaststroke start or turn, a swimmer might hold the glide phase too long during the initial streamline, and again after both the underwa-

ter pull and the underwater kick. At completion of each stroke of breast-stroke, swimmers often maintain a glide for too long.

In freestyle, many swimmers glide after completing the arm entry (as in catch-up stroke). Butterfly instruc-tions occasionally include a glide after the arm entry. Gliding within a stroke cycle has a serious impact on sustaining velocity.

NEGATIVE IMPACTWhether a glide phase (or too

long of a glide phase) occurs during a start, turn or stroke, it provides an opportunity for a swimmer to enjoy a very brief rest. Although the rest may be appreciated at the time, there are definite consequences.

First and most obvious is when the body decelerates, it requires ad-

ditional energy to accelerate. Fluc-tuations in body velocity are less ef-ficient than maintaining a constant velocity (e.g., Barbosa, et al., 2005).

The breaststroke example in Fig. 3 —next page, 2nd chart from top (excerpted from Maglischo, 2003) shows velocity fluctuations within a stroke cycle. There are two major de-creases in velocity. The first decrease is from a very short glide phase (.12 sec). The second decrease is from the kick recovery. For this example, mere-ly maintaining the glide for too long decelerates the body about one-third as much as the kick recovery.

TIPS TO OPTIMIZE GLIDINGA swimmer achieves an optimal

streamline glide position by main-taining specific body part orienta-tions using visual and kinesthetic cues (see Fig. 1). Kinesthetic cues include feeling: 1) one hand on top of the other, 2) fingertips pointing hori-zontally at the pool wall, 3) elbows locked, 4) upper arms squeezing the ears, 5) back arched, 6) legs straight,

Many people believe that the technique of the fastest swimmers is worth copying, which has promoted numerous misconceptions. In reality, even the fastest swimmers have technique limitations, but they offset them with strength and conditioning. The purpose of this series of articles is to address scientifically the technique misconceptions that have become “conventional wisdom,” and to present more effective options.

GLIDE phaseSWIMMING TECHNIQUE MISCONCEPTIONS

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F IG. 1 > (ABOVE/BELOW) An effective streamline glide position.

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7) toes pointed and 8) feet together. A visual cue is to see the bottom of the pool directly beneath the head. Once the optimal glide position is achieved, it is critical to maintain the position only until the body slows to swimming speed.

To be most effective, swimmers plan their speed for the swim prior to a start or a push-off. They then glide until they have slowed to the planned swimming speed. At that point, a pro-pulsive action must begin—typically kicking, followed by arm motion.

While gliding, it can help to look at the bottom of the pool. A fixed surface provides a reference for swimmers to judge their speed and

makes it more apparent that the body is slowing rapidly.

Implications for Breaststroke

Two main factors impact a swim-mer’s ability to gauge an optimal glide on breaststroke swimming: 1) the planned swim speed and 2) the effectiveness of the swimmer’s kick.

For a sprint, the hands can sepa-rate to begin the pull when the feet touch to finish the kick. For a longer swim (e.g., 200 meters), a very brief glide phase (.1 or .2 sec) may be op-timal. If a swimmer has a relatively weak kick, it may be more effective to begin the pull just before the feet touch. If a swimmer has an effective kick, beginning the pull too soon can interfere with the kick propulsion and limit performance.

Implications for Freestyle

Optimal arm synchronization in freestyle requires cycling the arms in opposition (or superposition for the fastest speeds). As soon as the

arm entry is complete (i.e., the arm is straight), the pull begins by flex-ing the elbow to move the hand backward. Focusing on the entry to pull transition can eliminate a glide phase. (See the January 2014 issue of Swimming World for more informa-tion on avoiding a glide in freestyle.)

Implications for Butterfly

The strategy for dealing with a glide phase in butterfly is similar to freestyle. When the arm entry is com-plete, a swimmer must immediately flex the elbows to move the hands backward. A swimmer should not glide on the arm entry even as part of a butterfly drill because it can re-inforce a habit that can be difficult to break.

SUMMARY

A glide phase or an excessively long glide phase may significantly limit per-formance. Although it may be natural to glide because of the immediate rest it provides, it is ultimately counterpro-ductive. During gliding, the body slows and the energy cost of accelerating back to swim speed is greater than maintaining a constant speed. To be most effective, a swimmer must gauge his or her speed and not slow below the planned swim speed. The bottom line is that gliding is advantageous only as long as a swimmer is gliding faster than swimming speed. As soon as the body slows to swimming speed, a propulsive action must begin.

Dr. Rod Havriluk is a sports scientist and consultant who specializes in swimming technique instruction and analysis. His strategies provide rapid improvement while avoiding injury. He can be reached at the website for Swimming Technology Research (Tallahassee, Fla.): www.SwimmingTechnology.com.

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FIG. 2 > (TOP) This graph shows how quickly the body velocity slows after a push-off.

FIG. 3 > (ABOVE) Velocity fluctuations in a breaststroke cycle. The two major decreases in velocity are due to the glide phase and the kick recovery.

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You’ve heard about the “3 R’s” at school: Reading, ’Riting and ’Rith-metic.

Well, how about the “5 R’s” of mental skills for every swimmer?

• Relaxation • Resilience • Recovery • Rehearsal • Reflection

RELAXATIONFor competitive swimmers, Mas-

ters swimmers, triathletes—for any-one who swims, regardless of his or her age or level of ability—relax-ation is, perhaps, the most impor-tant mental skill to be learned and mastered.

Relaxation is particularly impor-tant for sprinters. The faster you want to swim, the more relaxed

you need to be. Swimming fast has nothing to do with swimming “hard” and with “effort.” In fact, it’s the ex-act opposite.

Fast swimming comes from re-laxing, keeping your hands and feet “soft,” and by staying smooth and easy in the water at a high speed.

RESILIENCEThe path to swimming excel-

lence is never smooth. All swim-mers—even the great ones—experi-ence times when they find training and racing tough, difficult and chal-lenging. Injuries, illness, fatigue, the challenge of other commitments such as school, work, family, other sports, etc., can all make swimming seem like it’s all just too hard.

Resilience is an important men-tal skill because resilient swimmers

develop the commitment, dedica-tion and drive never to give up—no matter how difficult or how tough things appear to be.

Far too many swimmers hit a hurdle—such as suffering a shoul-der injury or not swimming a per-sonal record for a few months—and give up.

On the other hand, resilient swimmers accept these hurdles and “hiccups,” learn from the experience and return to swimming with re-newed energy, passion and the des-peration to succeed.

Remember: you can’t win...if you don’t swim.

RECOVERYTraining consistently in the pool

is important. Doing regular gym and dryland work is also critical.

GOLDMINDSBY WAYNE GOLDSMITH

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FOCUS ON THE TOP FIVE MENTAL SKILLS TO BECOME A MORE SUCCESSFUL SWIMMER.

THE 5 R’s

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Being dedicated and committed to completing consistent, regular, high-quality training is quite possibly the most important factor in achieving swimming success.

But just as important is your dedi-cation and commitment to your re-covery.

Tired swimmers do not train or race to their full potential. Fatigued athletes do not perform to the best of their ability. Swimmers who are not getting quality sleep every day eventually fade and can’t maintain a consistent training schedule.

Place as much importance on your rest, recovery and regeneration as you do on your training, and watch how your performances improve.

You could say that the secret to

swimming fast...is going “slow”—i.e., your capacity for swimming fast is enhanced by your commitment to sleeping, resting, getting massages, eating the right foods at the right time, hydrating effectively and tak-ing care of yourself between train-ing sessions.

REHEARSALEveryone has an imagination. Ev-

eryone dreams or imagines things that they’d like to have happen in their lives—a holiday in Paris, a new car, getting great grades at school. Everyone dreams.

But great swimmers turn their dreams into reality through their commitment to consistent training.

The connection between your

dreams and your swimming achieve-ments starts with a process called, “Rehearsal.”

Also called visualisation or im-agery, rehearsal is using the power of your imagination—the power of your dreams to help you achieve your swimming performance goals.

Rehearsal is a powerful technique, and all great athletes use the power of rehearsal in their training.

Where most swimmers think about how many laps they have to swim in the workout, what’s for din-ner or what’s on TV, great swimmers dream about and imagine swimming fast...in front of a screaming crowd...at a big meet.

MENTAL SKILLEXAMPLE 1: DURING HARD TRAINING SETS

EXAMPLE 2: DURING SWIM-DOWN

EXAMPLE 3:DURING WARM-UP

RELAXATION

Think about breathing and keep-ing your hands “soft” as you feel fatigued.

Think the word, “relax,” as you swim down to help you control your breathing and pro-gressively unwind after your training. Think “re” when you breathe in and “lax” as you breathe out.

Concentrate on your breathing—slow, deep, relaxed. Think about keeping “soft” and smooth and feeling the pressure of the water with your hands and feet.

RESILIENCE

Challenge yourself when things get tough. Demand more of yourself than even your coach expects. Con-trol your breathing. Focus on your turns and streamlining. The tougher it gets—the more you love it!

Avoid the temptation to swim with poor technique and skills during swim-down. Maintain great technique, breathing control and excellence in turns and push-offs no matter how tired you feel.

No matter how tired you are or how busy you might be, focus on right here and right now. Eliminate any negative thoughts, worries or concerns about what’s ahead in the workout. Instead, concentrate on feeling fast, strong and ready to train to your potential.

RECOVERY

In between each repeat, take deep, slow breaths; think about relaxing your shoulders, hands, arms and legs; and stretch any tight or tense muscles before the next push-off.

Focus on your breathing—deep, slow and relaxed. Feel all fatigue and all muscle tension being released on each out-breath. Immediately begin the process of recovering from this session, and start preparing for the next one.

No matter how tired you are or how busy you might be, focus on right here and right now. Eliminate any negative thoughts, worries or concerns about what’s ahead in the workout. Instead, concentrate on feeling fast, strong and ready to train to your potential.

REHEARSAL

Before each push-off, imagine how your body will feel underwater when you streamline. Visualize pulling with strength and power. Rehearse how you will attack each turn with speed and power.

Go through your post-training recovery routine in your mind. Think about what stretches you will do, what you will eat, what you will drink—start to imagine what you need to do to help your mind and body recover.

Think about the main set. Imagine how strong, how powerful and how fast you’ll feel during the set. “See” yourself flying and flow-ing through the water easily and quickly with pace and power.

REFLECTION

After each repeat, ask yourself, “Could I have done any better on that repeat? Could I have taken fewer breaths? Could I have taken longer strokes? Could I have swum faster?”

Ask yourself the three important reflection questions:1. Did I train to the full extent of my potential today?2. Did how I train today make a positive impact on my swimming goals?3. Did what I learn today make me a better swimmer for tomorrow?

Think about the last time you swam today’s main set. What did you learn about yourself? What did you do well last time? What do you need to do to improve? How can you make sure this workout is even better and more ef-fective than the last one?

Learning to combine your mental skills with your physical skills whenever you train is vital for swimming success. Here are a few examples of how to incorporate the 5 R’s into your training program:

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If you add plenty of recovery to some great training, it’s only a mat-ter of time before your dreams be-come something even more special: your actual performances.

You need to see the swimmer you want to be...to be the swimmer you want to see.

REFLECTIONMost people look in a mirror at

least once a day. Combing your hair or brushing your teeth—the oppor-tunity to see your reflection is every-where.

However, successful swimmers re-flect inwardly and seek to challenge themselves to learn, grow and im-prove a little bit every day.

Try asking yourself these three questions every day after every workout:• Did I train to the full extent of my potential today?

• Did how I train today make a posi-tive impact on my swimming goals?• Did what I learn today make me a better swimmer for tomorrow?

If you can answer “yes”—honestly and sincerely—to all three questions, then you’ve done all you can do to help yourself become a better swim-mer.

If you have to answer “no” to one or more of these questions, then you know what area of your training you’ll need to focus on to improve tomorrow.

By “reflecting” on these three questions, you are ensuring that you take a small—but important—step toward achieving your swimming goals every day.

Wayne Goldsmith is one of the world’s leading experts in elite-level swim-ming and high-performance sport. Be sure to check out his websites at www.wgaquatics.com and www.wgcoaching.com.

SUMMARY1. Just as the three R’s are fundamental to learning and literacy, the five R’s are fundamental to swimming success.

2. Practice some of your mental skills at every workout...every session...every day. The five R’s are just as important as all of the other swimming skills.

3. Learn to combine your mental skills with your physical skills whenever you train. For example, keep relaxed while you practice kicking, practice resilience during training sets when you get tired, practice rehearsal in training by visual-izing and imagining what it will feel like when you race.

4. Developing the mental skills to help you swim fast is so much more than just hearing a motivational talk or listening to music in the marshalling area before a meet. Mental skills are an integral aspect of your training and preparation every day.

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ot all roads in Carmel, Ind., lead to Carmel High School, but per-

haps they should.The school has given the city just

north of Indianapolis plenty of state and national prominence, especially the swimmers. For 28 straight years, the girls have won the Indiana high school state team title. This year, head coach Chris Plumb’s team put together one of its most successful state meets in history, winning by 90 points and setting national public high school records in all three re-lays.

Just the 120 points alone that it received for its nation-leading times

in the relays would have been enough for it to win Swimming World Magazine’s 2014 Girls’ National High School Championship.

Add in the additional 56 points it scored in individual events, and the national meet became a runaway, with Carmel outscoring Hershey High School (Pa.), 176 to 119. Crean Lu-theran (Calif.)—the top independent school—scored 116 points for third.

“It’s something we were shooting for from the beginning (of the sea-son),” Plumb said. “It’s a bit of delayed gratification, thinking that we had a shot back in February and now know-ing that we won it.”

The overall win was Carmel’s third—and second straight—since its first title in 2011.

A WINNING TRADITIONThe national title gives the Grey-

hounds their eighth public school championship, dating back to 1995. Plumb has only been the head coach at Carmel since 2006, but he felt the pressure to maintain the winning tradition from his first day on deck.

“Something I tell the girls every year is we’re standing on the shoul-ders of the ones who came before them,” he said. “We’re using them and

what they created to keep climbing and climbing and climbing.”

The pressure was off this year, thanks to the arrival of sprinter Amy Bilquist, who moved to Indiana from Arizona. She immediately had an im-pact on the team that went beyond her times on the scoreboard, Plumb said.

“She made it OK to be really fast, made it OK to be a real competitor,” said Plumb of Bilquist, who starts her senior year this fall. “She hates to lose, and she’s not afraid to race and take on new challenges—and the girls really took to that.”

But her times on the scoreboard were still important, and Bilquist was a key for the team in relays and in her individual swims. She scored 32 points in the national team race, with her third-place times in the 50 and 100 yard freestyles (22.15, 48.93) representing significant drops in her lifetime bests.

COMPETITIVE FIREVeronica Burchill was the relay

MVP for Carmel, swimming on all three relays that set national pub-lic school records at the state meet. First, it was the 200 medley (1:40.83), then the 200 free (1:31.37) and 400 free (3:21.20).

Getting the public school record in the final relay (400 FR) was a surprise to Plumb, who expected a fast swim, but not a record-breaking one—espe-cially since Bilquist could not swim it due to event limitations. Having Bur-chill, Katie Lemen, Kendall Smith and Claire Adams combine for one of the fastest relays in history showed the competitive fire that became a part of the team last season.

“This was a true indication of our potential,” Plumb said. “We knew right away that this was a special performance. We truly performed to our utmost potential, and I am proud of the girls for that.”

to learn more about what the future might hold for Carmel’s Greyhounds.

ROAD TO SUCCESSBY JEFF COMMINGS

When it comes to winning,the Carmel

High School girls’ swimming team

knows the right path to take. This past

season, the Greyhounds won their 28th

consecutive state title, eighth national

public school championship and second

straight (third in the last four years)

overall national crown.

GIRLS’ NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS

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PICTURED > CARMEL SET NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL RECORDS IN ALL THREE RELAYS, WITH HANNA HOUSE (LEFT) SWIMMING ON THE 200 MEDLEY AND 200 FREESTYLE RELAYS, AND CLAIRE ADAMS CONTRIBUTING LEGS ON THE 200 AND 400 FREE RELAYS. ADAMS, WHO SET SIX STATE RECORDS AT THE INDIANA CHAMPIONSHIPS, ALSO PLACED SIXTH NATIONALLY IN THE 100 BACK AND NINTH IN THE 200 FREE.N

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CONGRATULATIONS NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

28 Consecutive Indiana State Championships

2 ConsecutiveNational Championships

8 Time Public National Champions

7 State Records

SWIMMING WORLD MAGAZINE’S GIRLS’ NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS

EVENT #1200 YARD MEDLEY RELAY

NATIONAL RECORD: PUBLIC SCHOOL

Holland—Holland, Mich. (11-19-11) ................. 1:41.01

Courtney Bartholomew, Melissa Vandermeulen,

Taylor Garcia, Holly Morren

NATIONAL RECORD: INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

Carondelet—Concord, Ca. (5-21-11) .................. 1:40.73

Madison White, Allison Gargalikis,

Christina Ray, Chelsea Chenault

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 North Allegheny — Wexford, Pa.....1:42.10

LANE 2 Crown Point — Crown Point, Ind.......1:42.05

LANE 3 Crean Lutheran — Irvine, Ca...........1:41.79

LANE 4 Carmel — Carmel, Ind. (2-15-14)........1:40.83*

Hanna House Sr., Alex Clarke Jr.,

Veronica Burchill So., Amy Bilquist Jr.

LANE 5 Sacred Heart Acad. — Louisville, K...1:41.45

LANE 6 Chanhassen — Chanhassen, Mn.......1:41.96

LANE 7 Hershey — Hershey, Pa.......................1:42.09

LANE 8 Downers Grove No.—Downers Grove, Il.1:42.22

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Ransom Everglades — Miami, Fla....1:43.53

LANE 2 William A. Hough — Cornelius, N.C.1:43.41

LANE 3 New Trier — Winnetka, Ill.............1:43.02

LANE 4 San Ramon Vly. — Danville, Ca.........1:42.50

LANE 5 Fenwick — Oak Park, Ill....................1:42.89

LANE 6 Sacred Heart Prep — Atherton, Ca....1:43.25

LANE 7 Ursuline Academy — Cincinnati, Oh..1:43.53

LANE 8 Punahou School — Honolulu, Hi.....1:43.77

EVENT #2200 YARD FREESTYLE


Dagny Knutson—Minot, N.D. (11-14-08) ........... 1:42.81


Katie Ledecky Stone Ridge, Md. (2-9-13)..........1:42.96

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 A. Marsteller, Sr.—Ursuline Acad., Oh...1:46.78

LANE 2 Katie Drabot, So. — Cedarburg, Wis .....1:46.08

LANE 3 Daniela Georges, Jr. - Woodbridge, Ca. .1:45.89

LANE 4 Katie Ledecky, So.—

Stone Ridge, Md. (2-8-14)...........1:42.38**

LANE 5 K. McLaughlin, Jr. —Santa Margarita, Ca. .1:44.66

LANE 6 C. Harnish, Fr. — West York Area, Pa......1:45.91

LANE 7 M. Moroney, Jr. —Saint Aindrew’s, Fla. ...1:46.51

LANE 8 Abby Jagdfeld, Sr. — Waukesha S., Wis.1:46.80

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Jessica Merritt, So. — Wm. A. Hough, N.C..1:47.37

LANE 2 C. Williams, Sr. — Lawton Chiles, Fl. .....1:47.31

LANE 3 Jennifer Campbell, Jr. — Gunn, Ca.........1:47.10

LANE 4 Claire Adams, So. — Carmel, Ind..........1:46.95

LANE 5 Kirsten Jacobsen, So. - Barrington, Ill...1:46.98

LANE 6 Erin Falconer, Jr. - Mundelein, Ill. .........1:47.21

LANE 7 L. Barber, Jr. - Wilmington Area, Pa. ......1:47.32

LANE 8 Alexandra Aitchison, Jr. - E. Lake, Fla....1:47.42

EVENT #3200 YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY


Dagny Knutson—Minot, N.D. (11-13-09) .......... 1:53.82p


Ella Eastin — Crean Lutheran, Ca.(5-10-13)......1:55.15

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Lisa Bratton, Sr. — Richland, Wash. ......1:59.44

LANE 2 Clara Smiddy, Sr. — So. Fla. Heat, Fla. ..1:58.39

LANE 3 Bethany Galat, Sr. — Penn, Ind. ............1:57.52

LANE 4 Ella Eastin, Jr. — Crean Lutheran, Ca. ...1:56.54

LANE 5 Meaghan Raab, Sr. — Hershey, Pa. .......1:57.13

LANE 6 A. Howe, Sr. — Sacred Heart Prep, Ca. ..1:57.75

LANE 7 A. Seidt, So. — Sacred Heart Acad., Ky. 1:58.53

LANE 8 A. Szekely, So. — Gwynedd Mercy, Pa. .1:59.51

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 S. Lofquist, Jr. — Ursuline Acad., Oh. ....2:00.13

LANE 2 Riley Scott, Jr. — Petaluma, Ca. ............1:59.98

LANE 3 Katie Drabot, So. — Cedarsburg, Wis. ..1:59.89

LANE 4 C. McCann, Sr. — Gig Harbor, Wash. .....1:59.56

LANE 5 Leah Goldman, Sr. — Burlingame, Ca. ..1:59.82

LANE 6 Nikol Popov, Fr. — Valencia, Ca. ...........1:59.90

LANE 7 Aly Tetzloff, Jr. — Crown Point, Ind. ......2:00.01

LANE 8 Sonia Wang, Jr. — Upland, Ca. ..............2:00.13



Olivia Smoliga — Glenbrook So., Ill. (11-17-12)...21.99


Maddy Schaefer—St. Francis, Ca. (5-22-10) ............ 22.24

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 C. Cooper, Sr. — Woodward Acad., Ga. .....22.69

LANE 2 Mimi Schneider, Sr. — Fenwick, Ill. .........22.66

LANE 3 Amy Bilquist, Jr. — Carmel, Ind. ..............22.15

LANE 4 Abbey Weitzeil, Jr. — Saugus, Ca. (5-17-14)..21.98*

LANE 5 Janet Hu, Sr. — Oakton, Va......................22.11

LANE 6 Kasey Schmidt, Jr. — Bolles, Fl. ...............22.66

LANE 7 Alex Cleveland, Sr. — Zionsville, Ind. ......22.68

LANE 8 SWIMOFF

Lindsey Engel, Sr. — Crean Lutheran, Ca.22.71

Kaitlyn Albertoli, Jr. — JSerra, Ca. ........22.71

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Veronica Burchill, So. — Carmel, Ind. .....22.91

LANE 2 Danielle Nack, Sr. — Mankato West, Mn. .22.87

LANE 3 Rachel Wittmer, Fr. — Edina, Mn. ...........22.81

LANE 4 Runner-up of championship final swimoff

LANE 5 Lexie Lupton, Jr. — Kingwood, Tx. ...........22.80

LANE 6 Alexi Smith, Sr. — Archer, Ga...................22.83

LANE 7 N. McCullagh, Jr. — Charlotte Cath., N.C. .22.88

LANE 8 Emily Murphy, Sr. — Lima Shawnee, Oh..22.95

EVENT #5100 YARD BUTTERFLY


Jasmine Tosky—Palo Alto, Ca. (5-21-11) ............... 51.92p


Kathleen Hersey—Marist, Ga. (2-9-08) ................... 52.44

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Grace Oglesby, So. — No. Oldham, Ky. ....53.45

LANE 2 Katie Grover, Sr. — Milton, Ga. ................52.90

LANE 3 Jasmine Mau, Sr. — Punahou, Hi. ............52.23

LANE 4 Katie McLaughlin, Jr. —

St. Margarita, Ca. (5-17-14)..................51.78**

LANE 5 Beata Nelson, So. —

Verona/Mt. Hebron, Wis........................52.06

LANE 6 Aly Tetzloff, Jr. — Crown Point, Ind..........52.70

LANE 7 Danielle Nack, Sr. — Mankato West, Mn...53.41

LANE 8 Brittany Ulsinger, Jr. — Acalanes, Ca. ......53.46

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Nicole Smith, Jr. — Munster, Ind...............53.81

LANE 2 Breanna Robinson, Jr. — Wawasee, Ind. ...53.77

LANE 3 Vanessa Krause, So. — Chesterton, Ind.....53.74

LANE 4 Mimi Schneider, Sr. — Fenwick, Ill. ...........53.62

LANE 5 Alyssa Marsh, So. — Pine Lake Prep, N.C.53.72

LANE 6 Tamara Santoyo, Jr. —Wm. S. Hart, Ca. ......53.75

LANE 7 Kylie Jordan, So. — Madeira School, Va. ...53.80

LANE 8 M. Wright, Jr. — Waterford United, Mich. ..53.88



Dagny Knutson—Minot, N.D. (11-13-09) ............48.15p


Missy Franklin—Regis Jesuit, Colo. (2-13-10) ....... 48.39r

HEAT SHEET* = NATIONAL PUBLIC

SCHOOL RECORD

** = NATIONAL INDEPENDENT

SCHOOL RECORD

p = PRELIM TIME

r = RELAY SPLIT TIME

for the top 10 girls’ team standings—combined, public schools and independent schools.

FOLLOWING IS A MOCK HEAT SHEET OF THE GIRLS’ MYTHICAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, BASED ON THE TOP TIMES SWUM DURING THE 2013-14 HIGH SCHOOL SEASON.

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CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Valeria Hull, Sr. — Westview, Ca. .............49.69

LANE 2 Emily Allen, Jr. — Wm. A. Hough, N.C.........49.68

LANE 3 Amy Bilquist, Jr. — Carmel, Ind.................48.93

LANE 4 A. Weitzeil, Jr. — Saugus, Ca. (5-17-14)....47.82r*

LANE 5 Jasmine Mau, Sr. — Punahou, Hi...............48.67

LANE 6 Lindsey Engel, Sr. — Crean Luth., Ca.........49.00

LANE 7 Alex Cleveland, Sr. — Zionsville, Ind........49.69

LANE 8 Hannah Stevens, Sr. — Lexington, Oh.......49.73

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Mollie Pulte, Jr. — Marian, Mich...............49.87

LANE 2 Abby Jagdfeld, Sr. — Waukesha So., Wis....49.86

LANE 3 Kaitlyn Albertoli, Jr. — JSerra, Ca...............49.82

LANE 4 A. Marsteller, Sr. — Ursuline Acad., Ga..... 49.75

LANE 5 C. Cooper, Sr. — Woodward Acad., Ga........49.78

LANE 6 Amy Lubawy, Sr. — Bishop Gorman, Nev...49.82

LANE 7 Lexie Lupton, Jr. — Kingwood, Tx.............49.86

LANE 8 Katie Grover, Sr. — Milton, Ga. .................49.90



Dagny Knutson—Minot, N.D. (11-14-08) ............. 4:34.78


Katie Ledecky — Stone Ridge, Md. (2-9-13).........4:31.38

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 L. Stevens, Jr. — Sacred Heart Acad., Ky..4:45.82

LANE 2 Megan Byrnes, So. — Oakton, Va. ..........4:44.92

LANE 3 Hannah Moore, Sr. — Green Hope, N.C...4:40.98

LANE 4 Katie Ledecky, Jr. —

Stone Ridge, Md. (2-7-14)................4:28.71p**

LANE 5 C. Harnish, Fr. — West York Area, Pa........4:40.04

LANE 6 Isabella Rongione, Fr. — Langley, Va......4:44.06

LANE 7 C. Williams, Sr. — Lawton Chiles, Fl.......4:45.67

LANE 8 Daniela Georges, Jr. — Woodbridge, Ca..4:45.94

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Spence Atkins, So. — Riverview, Fl........4:47.29

LANE 2 Alexandra Aitchison, Jr. — East Lake, Fl..4:47.11

LANE 3 Brooke Lorentzen, Sr. — Capo Vly., Ca....4:46.85

LANE 4 Sierra Schmidt, Fr. — Germantown, Pa..4:46.29

LANE 5 S. Lofquist, Jr. — Ursuline Acad., Oh.......4:46.63

LANE 6 Kirsten Jacobsen, So. — Barrington, Ill...4:46.93

LANE 7 Moriah Simonds, So. — Granada, Ca.......4:47.21

LANE 8 Katie Duggan, Jr. — Lake Highland, Fl....4:47.37

EVENT #8200 YARD FREESTYLE RELAYNATIONAL RECORD: PUBLIC SCHOOL

Carmel—Carmel, Ind. (2-14-09) ........................ 1:32.75

Megan Detro, Jessie Hammes, Logan Mason, Trish Regan


Baylor—Chattanooga, Tn. (2-11-12) .................. 1:31.18

Kristen Vredeveld, Bria Deveaux,

Kimberlee John-Williams, Ashley Yearwood

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Hershey — Hershey, Pa........................1:33.81

LANE 2 Carondelet — Concord, Ca...................1:33.62

LANE 3 Charlotte Catholic — Charlotte, N.C......1:33.22

LANE 4 Carmel — Carmel, Ind. (2-15-14) .........1:31.37*

Amy Bilquist Jr., Claire Adams So.,

Hanna House Sr., Veronica Burchill So.

LANE 5 Bolles — Jacksonville, Fl.....................1:32.74

LANE 6 San Ramon Valley — Danville, Ca.........1:33.51

LANE 7 Verona/Mt. Hebron — Berona, Wis........1:33.70

LANE 8 Upper Arlington — Columbus, Oh........1:33.87

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Mundelein — Mundelein, Ill................1:34.58

LANE 2 Wayzata — Plymouth, Mn....................1:34.35

LANE 3 Arrowhead — Hartland, Wis.................1:34.12

LANE 4 Ursuline Academy — Cincinnati, Oh......1:33.96

LANE 5 Edina — Edina, Mn..............................1:34.06

LANE 6 Penn — Mishawaka, Ind......................1:34.21

LANE 7 Waukesha South — Waukesha, Wis.......1:34.49

LANE 8 Santa Margarita — RS Margarita, Ca....1:34.64

EVENT #9100 YARD BACKSTROKE


Olivia Smoliga — Glenbrook So., Ill. (11-17-12) ......51.43


Missy Franklin—Regis Jesuit, Colo. (2-12-11) ......... 52.30

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Meaghan Raab, Sr. — Hershey, Pa...........53.08

LANE 2 Zoe Avestruz, Jr. — Chanhassen, Mn.........52.96

LANE 3 Clara Smiddy, Sr. — So. Fla. Heat, Fl.........52.46

LANE 4 Ally Howe, Sr. —

Sacred Heart Prep, Ca. (5-17-14)..........51.54**

LANE 5 Janet Hu, Sr. — Oakton, Va.......................52.35

LANE 6 Taylor Garcia, Jr. — Holland, Mich............52.95

LANE 7 Claire Adams, So. — Carmel, Ind..............52.97

LANE 8 B. Nelson, So. — Verona/Mt. Hebron, Wis..53.19

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Allie Szekely, So. — Gwynedd Mercy, Pa...53.80

LANE 2 Hannah Stevens, Sr. — Lexington, Oh......53.73

LANE 3 Asia Seidt, So. — Sacred Heart Acad., Ky...53.40

LANE 4 Elise Haan, Jr. — Gulf Coast, Fl................53.22

LANE 5 Emily Slabe, Sr. — Ursuline Acad., Oh......53.35

LANE 6 N. McCullagh, Jr. — Charlotte Cath., N.C....53.59

LANE 7 Sonia Wang, Jr. — Upland, Ca...................53.77

LANE 8 Hannah Whitely, So. — Springboro, Oh.....53.84

EVENT #10100 YARD BREASTSTROKE


Kasey Carlson—Las Lomas, Ca. (5-16-09) .......... 58.75p


Sarah Haase—Good Counsel, Md. (2-11-12) ....... 1:00.05

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 K. Lohman, So. — Sacred Heart Acad., Ky...1:01.29

LANE 2 Riley Scott, Jr. — Petaluma, Ca..............1:00.52

LANE 3 Lilly King, Jr. — F.J. Reitz, Ind. ..................59.99

LANE 4 Bethany Galat, Sr. — Penn, Ind................59.66

LANE 5 Heidi Poppe, Sr. — San Ramon Vly., Ca......59.85

LANE 6 Lindsey Horejsi, So. — Albert Lea, Mn....1:00.24

LANE 7 Nikol Popov, Fr. — Valencia, Ca..............1:01.17

LANE 8 Carolyn McCann, Sr. — Gig Harbor, Wa...1:01.33

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Lindsay Adamski, Jr. — Arrowhead, Wis..1:01.95

LANE 2 Marie Schillinger, Jr. — Miramonte, Ca...1:01.91

LANE 3 Vivian Tafuto, Jr. — Hershey, Pa.............1:01.81

LANE 4 M. Tucker, Jr. — Waterford United, Mich..1:01.36

LANE 5 Ella Eastin, Jr. — Crean Lutheran, Ca......1:01.75

LANE 6 Olivia Anderson, Jr. — Edina, Mn...........1:01.88

LANE 7 Emily Kopas, Sr. — University, Fl............1:01.92

LANE 8 A. Donahue, Jr. — H.B. Plant, Fl.............1:01.97


Hershey—Hershey, Pa. (3-19-11) ....................... 3:22.85

Samantha Surfus, Meaghan Raab,

Yurie Nakano, Katelyn Miller


Carondelet — Concord, Ca. (5-18-13)...................3:20.42

Chelsea Chenault, Natalie Amberg,

Madelyn Murphy, Madison White

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Waukesha South — Waukesha, Wis......3:22.50

LANE 2 Crown Point — Crown Point, Ind..........3:22.03

LANE 3 Crean Lutheran — Irvine, Calif..............3:21.41

LANE 4 Carmel — Carmel, Ind. (2-15-14).........3:21.20*

Veronica Burchill So., Katie Lemen Sr.,

Kendall Smith So., Claire Adams So.

LANE 5 Hershey — Hershey, Pa........................3:21.34

LANE 6 Ursuline Academy — Cincinnati, Oh.....3:21.89

LANE 7 Charlotte Catholic — Charlotte, N.C.....3:22.15

LANE 8 Sacred Heart Academy — Louisville, Ky.3:22.79

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Downers Grove No. — Downers Grove, Ill.3:25.16

LANE 2 Zionsville — Zionsville, Ind..................3:24.33

LANE 3 Arrowhead — Hartland, Wis.................3:23.77

LANE 4 William A. Hough — Cornelius, N.C.......3:23.07

LANE 5 Bolles — Jacksonville, Fl......................3:23.70

LANE 6 Santa Margarita — RS Margarita, Ca.....3:24.32

LANE 7 Sacred Heart Prep — Atherton, Ca.........3:25.03

LANE 8 Saint Andrew’s — Boca Raton, Fl........3:25.17

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SITUATION: The deck referee blows a short series of whistles directing the swimmers to prepare to swim. All swimmers move behind their block except the swimmer for lane 3, who is missing.

After checking for the missing swimmer without success, the referee blows the long whistle. When the swimmers are up, the field is then turned over to the starter, who issues the “take-your-mark” command, and when all swimmers are stationary, sounds the device to start the race.

Immediately thereafter, an athlete jumps up on the empty lane 3 block and dives into the pool. The swimmer is, indeed, the one who had been seeded into lane 3.

What should the deck referee do, if anything?

RESOLUTION: Unfortunately, this highly unsafe situation occurs too often. And, yes, a penalty—albeit not a disqualification—is in order on these facts along with an admonition not to repeat the unsafe conduct.

The penalty is to treat the athlete as a “no show.” Clearly, he was not at the blocks when the race was started. The administrative penalty for a “no show” means that for this athlete, the swim never occurred. Thus, no time would be recorded for the swim, and any administrative penalties for a “no show” would also be applicable.

A variation on these facts is the swimmer who jumps up on the block late either during or immediately before the “take-your-mark” command, but prior to the start signal.

That generally requires an investigation on the part of the deck referee to determine what occasioned the late response. If the excuse is a good one, the starting sequence would then be repeated and the late arriving swimmer should not be penalized.

However, if the excuse is a poor one, then a delay-of-meet disqualification would be appropriate, as opposed to a “no show” penalty.

Dan McAllen is the chair of USA Swimming’s Rules & Regulations Committee.

ATHLETE JUMPS UP LATE:What’s the Penalty?

BY DAN McALLEN

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Small-town School SCORES BIG

In one of the most exciting battles for Swimming World Magazine’s boys’ national high school team title, Chesterton High School (Chesterton, Ind.) beat Granada High School (Livermore, Calif.) by one point, 124-123.

Not only is it Chesterton’s first time at the top, but the public school (enrollment: 1,878) unseated The Bolles School from its two-year reign as the nation’s top boys’ school. With 114 points, Bolles finished third, retaining its status as the top independent school.

Chesterton head coach Kevin Kinel called the win “a little bit of vindication,” and one that was a long time coming. Led by future superstar Kyle Whitaker, Chesterton fell just 2.5 points shy of a team title in 2008.

National high school team champions often win one or more relays, but that was not the case for Chesterton. De-spite setting the national public school record in the 200 yard medley relay with a 1:29.64, the Trojans placed third be-hind the national high school record of 1:27.74 by The Baylor School and the 1:28.93 by Bolles. Granada could take some satisfaction in posting the top time in the country in the 400 free relay with a 2:59.00 over Chesterton’s 2:59.36. Granada’s time was a national public school record.

Chesterton, Ind.—a town of a little more than 13,000—

is receiving national notoriety as Swimming World

Magazine crowned Chesterton High School as the best

boys’ high school swimming team in the United States.

BY JEFF COMMINGS

It’s no secret that hard work wins championship titles, and Chesterton High School put in endless hours of work this year to earn its first boys’ national high school team title. Following is a workout head coach Kevin Kinel believes exemplifies the type of training that helped his athletes perform well at the Indiana state meet in February.

In the following workout, Kinel uses three special rest intervals throughout the practice.• CRUISE 1 indicates “aerobic overload: fast swim with moderate rest to keep pace.”• CRUISE 2 is for “threshold work: strong pace, very little rest.”• CRUISE 3 is for sets with “basic aerobic and moderate pace for a good duration with emphasis on technique.”

Kinel said he uses a 6 x 100 set on a five-second rest interval to determine the three cruise paces for each swimmer. You can use all four strokes, and IM as well!

Take the total time swum for the set minus the 25 seconds rest and divide by six to determine your pace per 100.

The Cruise 1 interval is 15 seconds rest. For Cruise 2, the interval is five seconds slower than your pace, and the rest interval is 10 seconds for Cruise 3.

As you will read, some of the cruise intervals are amended to allow more rest:

SAMPLE WORKOUTNov. 20, 2013 (SCY)

[PHOTO BY TR HARLAN, SPORTS EDITOR, CHESTERTON TRIBUNE]

CHESTERTON HIGH SCHOOL’S FAVORITE SETS

• 500 free warm-up and loosen• 10 x 75 choice on 1:20 25 fists closed/25 normal swim/25 fists closed

• 10 x 175 free on 25-second rest interval holding Cruise 1 pace

• 10 x 25 fast underwater kick on :45• 10 x 75 kick on 1:30 holding best average• 6 x 150 IM on 20-second rest interval Cruise 3 pace, descending

• 6 x 100 stroke on 10-second rest interval Cruise 3 pace, working on stroke timing

• 400 free pull on 4:30 100 breathe right, 100 breathe left, 200 bilateral breathing

• 2 x 150 on 6:00 free or IM goal time is 75 percent of 200 time

• 2x75 best stroke on 3:00 goal time is 75 percent of 100 time

• 3x100 on 1:50 recovery 50 back/50 free

TOTAL: 6,450 yards

BY JEFF COMMINGS and KEVIN KINEL

BOYS’ NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS

PICTURED > BESIDES WINNING THIS SEASON’S NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TEAM TITLE, CHESTERTON HIGH SCHOOL’S BOYS’ TEAM RAN AWAY WITH THE TEAM TITLE AT THE INDIANA STATE HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN FEBRUARY.

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In their 2008 campaign to win a national title, Chester-ton scored in all three relays, but Whitaker was the team’s only scorer in an individual event. This year, Chesterton had two swimmers who scored individually to make up for not fielding a 200 free relay that could score nationally.

STRIVING TO BE THE BESTKinel works with most of Chesterton’s swimmers year-

round at the Duneland Swim Club, and he said he saw ev-ery day how much the squad wanted to be called the best team in the nation.

“With the group of kids I had (last season), we were us-ing (the 2008 national title loss) as fuel for motivation,” he said. “We talked about having a shot at winning the (na-tional title), so that’s really cool that they get to celebrate that.”

Kinel had one of the strongest senior classes he’s worked with at Chesterton, including Aaron Whitaker, the second fastest 100 butterflyer in high school competition last season with a 46.31. Whitaker, now a freshman at the University of Michigan, was the team’s top scorer, also put-ting up a 47.06 in the 100 backstroke that ranked fourth in the country.

Another speedy senior was Blake Pieroni, who ranked second in the 100 free (43.37) behind Paul Powers (North Hall, Ga.) at 43.19. Pieroni, who is starting his freshman

year at Indiana University, added a ninth-place finish in the 200 IM (1:46.78).

Pieroni said he wanted to make sure his final high school swimming competition was memorable: “(Our sen-iors) talked in practice about possible splits we could go on (the medley and 400 free) relays. By our junior year, we knew we could break 1:30 and 3:00, and we ended up do-ing that.”

LOOKING AHEAD: CHESTERTON HAS THE NUMBERS

Pieroni said 100 people signed up to be a part of the team, which makes for crowded practices, but also creates immense depth for the chase for state and national titles.

Kinel will need to dig through that massive squad next season to find the next talents that can keep Chesterton on the national radar. Not only did Chesterton lose Whitaker and Pieroni to college, but also Patrick Curley and Ethan Whitaker, who were part of the sub-3:00 400 free relay.

But for now, everyone in Chesterton, Ind.—a town of a little more than 13,000—is celebrating the fact that it has the best high school swim team in the United States.

“It feels good, and I imagine that’s what every coach strives for—to win a state championship and possibly a na-tional championship,” Kinel said. “But I just feel good for the kids that they reached their goals and gave us the op-portunity to get such notoriety nationwide.”

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SWIMMING WORLD MAGAZINE’S BOYS’ NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS

EVENT #1200 YARD MEDLEY RELAY


Saline — Saline, Mich. (3-9-13)..........................1:30.01

David Boland, Joshua Ehrman,

Michael Bundas, Adam Whitener


Bolles — Jacksonville, Fl. (11-10-12).................1:28.02

Ryan Murphy, Joseph Schooling,

Josh Booth, Santo Condorelli

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 North Allegheny — Wexford, Pa............1:30.86

LANE 2 LaSalle College Prep — Wyndmoor, Pa.1:30.26

LANE 3 Chesterton — Chesterton, Ind. (3-1-14) .1:29.64*

Aaron Whitaker Sr., Jack Wallar Sr.,

Blake Pieroni Sr., Gary Kostblade Fr.

LANE 4 Baylor — Chattanooga, Tenn. (2-14-14)1:27.74**

Luke Kaliszak Sr., Dustin Tynes Sr.,

Sam McHugh Sr., Christian Selby Jr.

LANE 5 Bolles — Jacksonville, Fl......................1:28.93

LANE 6 University — Irvine, Ca........................1:30.10

LANE 7 Granada — Livermore, Ca.....................1:30.67

LANE 8 Upper St. Clair — Pittsburgh, Pa...........1:31.02

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Greenwich — Greenwich, Ct.................1:31.99

LANE 2 Regis Jesuit — Aurora, Colo..................1:31.71

LANE 3 Northgate — Walnut Creek, Ca.............1:31.47

LANE 4 Davis Senior — Davis, Ca.....................1:31.21

LANE 5 Palo Alto — Palo Alto, Ca......................1:31.28

LANE 6 Libertyville — Libertyville, Ill...............1:31.55

LANE 7 Phillips Academy — Andover, Mass.......1:31.82

LANE 8 Chaparral — Scottsdale, Az...................1:32.01



Tom Shields — Edison, Ca. (5-13-09)...............1:33.83p


Joe Hudepohl — St. Xavier, Oh. (3-1-91).............1:34.96

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Nick Silverthorn, Sr. — Granada, Ca.......1:36.80

LANE 2 Grant Shoults, So. — Santa Margarita, Ca..1:35.99

LANE 3 Andrew Seliskar, Jr. — Jefferson, Va.......1:35.76

LANE 4 Caeleb Dressel, Sr. — Clay, Fl................1:34.69

LANE 5 Maxime Rooney, So. — Granada, Ca......1:35.69

LANE 6 Grant House, Fr. — St. Xavier, Oh..........1:35.84

LANE 7 Kyle Coan, Sr. — Los Osos, Ca. .. . . . . . . . . . . .1:36.16

LANE 8 Cole Sogswell, Jr. — Wm. S. Hart, Ca.......1:36.81

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Edward Kim, Sr. — Eastlake, Wa.............1:37.42

LANE 2 William Freeman, Sr — Spain Park, Ala..1:37.31

LANE 3 Aidan Burns, Jr. — Bellarmine Prep, Ca...1:37.15

LANE 4 Jonathan Knox, Sr. — Analy, Ca..............1:37.07

LANE 5 Parks Jones, Jr. — Avon, Ind....................1:37.11

LANE 6 Jack Boyd, Sr. — Canisius, N.Y................1:37.31

LANE 7 K. Litherland, Sr.—Chattahoochee, Ga...1:37.36

LANE 8 Ryan Kao, Sr. — Kennedy, Ca.................1:37.65

EVENT #3200 YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY


David Nolan — Hershey, Pa. (3-18-11)...............1:41.39


Curtis Ogren — St. Francis, Ca. (5-10-13)...........1:45.01

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Sam McHugh, Sr. — Baylor, Tenn..........1:46.29

LANE 2 Zachary Buerger, Sr. — No. Allegheny, Pa.1:45.64

LANE 3 Jacob Molacek, Sr. — Creighton, Neb.....1:45.50

LANE 4 Curtis Ogren, Sr. —

St. Francis, Ca. (5-18-14)....................1:44.90*

LANE 5 Corey Okubo, Sr. — Irvine, Ca................1:45.42

LANE 6 Gunnar Bentz, Sr. — St. Pius X, Ga.........1:45.55

LANE 7 M. Thomas, Jr. — Hatboro-Horsham, Pa...1:46.18

LANE 8 Liam Karas, Sr. — Corona del Mar, Ca....1:46.54

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Jake Miller, Jr. — Normal Univ., Ill..........1:48.08

LANE 2 Matt Whittle, Sr. — Davis Senior, Ca.......1:47.64

LANE 3 Jared Butler, Sr. — Rockwall-Heath, Texas.1:47.53

LANE 4 Blake Pieroni, Sr. — Chesterton, Ind......1:46.78

LANE 5 Nick Arakelian, Sr. — Stevenson, Mich....1:47.47

LANE 6 Abraham Devine, Jr. — Lakeside, Wa......1:47.60

LANE 7 Daniel McArthur, Jr. — Lakewood, Ca.....1:47.86

LANE 8 C. Vissering, Jr. — Georgetown Prep, Md..1:48.10



Vladimir Morozov — Torrance, Ca. (5-15-10).........19.43r


Ryan Murphy — Bolles, Fl. (11-10-12)...................19.54r

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Andrew Liang, Sr. — Palo Alto, Ca.............20.14

LANE 2 Justin Plaschka, Sr. — Hauppauge, N.Y.....20.08

LANE 3 Paul Powers, Sr. — North Hall, Ga...........19.63

LANE 4 Caeleb Dressel, Sr. — Clay, Fl. (11-9-13)..19.29*

LANE 5 Ryan Hoffer, So. — Chaparral, Az............19.55

LANE 6 Ryan Held, Sr. — SH Griffin, Ill...............19.76

LANE 7 Kevin Wylder, Sr. — Granite Bay, Ca........20.14

LANE 8 Kyle Coan, Sr. — Los Osos, Ca................20.17

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Gage Kohner, Sr. — Brighton, Fl...............20.44

LANE 2 Ali Khalafalla, Sr. — Fort Union, Va.........20.37

LANE 3 J.P. Beach, Sr. — Douglas Cty., Colo..........20.30

LANE 4 Ryan Nicholson, Sr. — Ithaca, N.Y............20.25

LANE 5 Tabahn Afrik, Jr. — West Ottawa, Mich......20.27

LANE 6 Connor Stirling, Jr. — Cactus Shadows, Az....20.30

LANE 7 Luke Kaliszcak, Sr. — Baylor, Tenn...........20.43

LANE 8 Jordy Groter, Sr. — University, Fl..............20.46

EVENT #5100 YARD BUTTERFLY


Connor Black — Mundelein, Ill. (2-23-13).............46.71

Caeleb Dressel — Clay, Fl. (9-28-13)....................45.89

(Dressel’s 45.89 from this past season was a non-

scoring time due to limit of 2 individual events.)


Joseph Schooling — Bolles, Fl. (11-10-12)............46.50

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Corey Okubo, Sr. — University, Ca.............47.53

LANE 2 Gunnar Bentz, Sr. — St. Pius X, Ga............47.26

LANE 3 Alex Valente, Jr. — Dos Peublos, Ca..........46.68

LANE 4 Joseph Schooling, Sr. —

Bolles, Fl. (11-8-13).............................45.52**

LANE 5 Aaron Whitaker, Sr. — Chesterton, Ind......46.31

LANE 6 Andrew Liang, Sr. — Palo Alto, Ca.............47.09

LANE 7 Ryan Dudzunski, Jr. — Upper St. Clair, Pa...47.44

LANE 8 Ryan Nicholson, Sr. — Ithaca, N.Y............47.76

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Steven Tan, Sr. — Illinois Math/Science, Ill...48.41

LANE 2 Mason Miller, Jr. — Westerville No., Oh....48.30

LANE 3 Ian Finngerty, Jr. — Bloomington So., Ind.48.18

LANE 4 RJ Hemmingsen, Sr. — Lewis Central, Ia...47.84

LANE 5 Michael Jensen, So. — Upper Dublin, Pa...48.01

LANE 6 Patrick Park, Sr. — Peddie, N.J. .... . . . . . . . . . . . .48.19

LANE 7 Matt Whittle, Sr. — Davis Senior, Ca.........48.30

LANE 8 Kevin Wylder, Sr. — Granite Bay, Ca.........48.52



David Nolan — Hershey, Pa, (3-19-11)................42.34r

* = NATIONAL PUBLIC

SCHOOL RECORD

** = NATIONAL INDEPENDENT

SCHOOL RECORD

p = PRELIM TIME

r = RELAY SPLIT TIME

for the top 10 boys’ team standings—combined, public schools and independent schools.

FOLLOWING IS A MOCK HEAT SHEET OF THE BOYS’ MYTHICAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, BASED ON THE TOP TIMES SWUM DURING THE 2013-14 HIGH SCHOOL SEASON.

BY BOB KLAPTHOR

KEY

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Jack Conger — Good Counsel, Md. (2-9-13)..........42.81r

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Edward Kim, Sr. — Eastlake, Wa...............43.90

LANE 2 Ryan Hoffer, So. — Chaparral, Az.............43.87

LANE 3 Justin Plaschka, Sr. — Hauppauge, N.Y......43.70

LANE 4 Paul Powers, Sr. — North Hall, Ga...........43.19

LANE 5 Blake Pieroni, Sr. — Chesterton, Ind........43.37

LANE 6 Ryan Held, Sr. — SH Griffin, Ill................43.73

LANE 7 Tabahn Afrik, Jr. — West Ottawa, Mich.....43.90

LANE 8 Cole Cogswell, Jr. — Wm. S. Hart, Ca........43.97

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Kyle White, Sr. — Cheyenne Central, Wyo.44.53

LANE 2 Nicholas Magana, Sr. — Desert Mtn., Az...44.26

LANE 3 Alexander Lewis, Sr. — Greenwich, Ct.....44.16

LANE 4 Kyle Gornay, Sr. — Redlands, Ca..............44.03

LANE 5 Hennessey Stuart, Sr. — Regis Jesuit, Colo...44.10

LANE 6 Grant House, Fr. — St. Xavier, Oh............44.26

LANE 7 Michael Jensen, So. — Upper Dublin, Pa...44.39

LANE 8 Greg Kohner, Sr. — Brighton, Fl...............44.62



Jeff Kostoff — Upland, Ca. (5-14-83)...................4:16.39


Jack Conger — Good Counsel, Md. (2-9-13).........4:13.87

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Jack Boyd, Sr. — Canisius, N.Y. ................. 4:22.72

LANE 2 Grant Schenk, Sr. — Mt. Carmel, Ca. ...... 4:22.09

LANE 3 Maxime Rooney, So. — Granada, Ca. .... 4:20.16

LANE 4 Sam McHugh, Sr. — Baylor, Tenn. .......... 4:16.76

LANE 5 Jonathan Roberts, Sr. —Carroll, Texas . .4:16.90

LANE 6 Patrick Ransford, Sr. —

Pittsford Central, N.Y ............................... .4:21.06

LANE 7 Jason O’Brien, Sr. — Point Loma, Ca. ..... 4:22.70

LANE 8 Zachary Buerger, Sr. — No. Allegheny, Pa...4:22.75

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Brock Turner, Sr. —Oakwood, Oh. .......... 4:24.31

LANE 2 Calvin Bryant, Sr. — Osceola, Fl. ............ 4:23.47

LANE 3 Nicholas Norman, Jr. — Capo Valley, Ca.4:23.02

LANE 4 Logan Samuelson, Sr. — Fort Myers, Fl. 4:22.77

LANE 5 Kevin Litherland, Sr. —

Chattahoochee, Ga..................................... 4:22.91

LANE 6 Aidan Burns, Jr. — Bellarmine, Ca. ......... 4:23.36

LANE 7 Stephen Marcin, Jr. — Servite, Ca. .......... 4:24.30

LANE 8 Cody Bekemeyer, Jr. — Collins Hill, Ga...4:24.37


Hershey — Hershey, Pa. (3-18-11)...................1:21.01

David Nolan, Ben Bauchwitz, Shota Nakano, Jeff Young


Bolles — Jacksonville, Fl. (11-10-12)..................1:19.27

Ryan Murphy, Joseph Schooling,

Emiro Goossen, Santo Condorelli

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Fairfield College Prep — Fairfield, Ct. . 1:23.18


LANE 3 Loyola — Los Angeles, Ca. ....................... 1:22.57

LANE 4 Creighton Prep — Omaha, Neb. ............. 1:22.09

LANE 5 Bolles — Jacksonville, Fl. ......................... 1:22.32

LANE 6 St. Francis — Toledo, Oh. .......................... 1:22.85

LANE 7 William S. Hart — Newhall, Ca. .............. 1:23.15

LANE 8 Baylor — Chattanooga, Tenn. ................. 1:23.23

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Hinsdale Central — Hinsdale, Ill. .......... 1:23.66

LANE 2 Peddie— Hightstown, N.J. ........................ 1:23.61

LANE 3 Greenwich — Greenwich, Ct. .................. 1:23.53

LANE 4 Davis Senior — Davis, Ca. ........................ 1:23.24

LANE 5 Upper St. Clair — Pittsburgh, Pa. ........... 1:23.35

LANE 6 St. Ignatius College — San Francisco, Ca.1:23.53

LANE 7 St. Xavier — Cincinnati, Oh. ..................... 1:23.65

LANE 8 J.H. Rose — Greenville, N.C. ..................... 1:23.66

EVENT #9100 YARD BACKSTROKE


David Nolan — Hershey, Pa. (3-19-11)...................45.49


Ryan Murphy — Bolles, Fl. (11-10-12)................45.34p

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 EthanYoung, So. — Dalton, Ga. ................... 47.54

LANE 2 Kyle Gornay, Sr. — Redlands, Ca. ................ 47.15

LANE 3 Hennessey Stuart, Sr. — Regis Jesuit, Colo.46.91

LANE 4 Michael Thomas, Jr. —

Hatsboro-Horsham, Pa. ................................46.65

LANE 5 Ryan Dudzinski, Jr. — Upper St. Clair, Pa. 46.88

LANE 6 Aaron Whitaker, Sr. — Chesterton, Ind. .... 47.06

LANE 7 Luke Kaliszak, Sr. — Baylor, Tenn. .............. 47.36

LANE 8 Tristan Sanders, Sr. — Palm Harbor, Fl. ... 47.79

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 David Puczkowski, Jr. — Westlake, Ca. .....48.56

LANE 2 Patrick Conaton, Sr. — Fordham, N.Y. .......48.53

LANE 3 Jessie Kim, Sr. — Valencia, Ca. .....................48.39

LANE 4 Henrik Pohlmann, Sr. — Beavercreek, Oh.48.13

LANE 5 Jay Litherland, Sr. — Chattahoochee, Ga. 48.38

LANE 6 Daniel McArthur, Jr. — Lakewood, Ca. ......48.48

LANE 7 Patrick Mulcare, Jr. — Southridge, Ore. ....48.53

LANE 8 Jonathan Roberts, Sr. — Carroll, Texas ....48.58

EVENT #10100 YARD BREASTSTROKE


Steven Stumph — Campolindo, Ca. (5-18-13)......53.39


Patrick Fowler — Seattle Prep, Wash. (2-20-98)....53.66

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Nick Silverthorn, Sr. — Granada, Ca. .........54.31

LANE 2 Curtis Ogren, Sr. — St. Francis, Ca. ............53.81

LANE 3 Andrew Seliskar, Jr. — Jefferson, Va. ..........53.24

LANE 4 Jacob Molacek, Sr. —

Creighton, Neb. (2-28-14) ........................52.92**

LANE 5 Connor Hoppe, Sr. —

Golden Vly., Ca. (5-17-14) ..........................53.06*

LANE 6 Carsten Vissering, Jr. — Georgetown, Md. 53.49

LANE 7 Cody Taylor, Sr. — Columbus No., Ind. .....54.24

LANE 8 Carson Sand, Jr. — Castro Vly., Ca. .............54.54

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 Derek Kao, Sr. — Walnut, Ca. .......................54.91

LANE 2 Zack Warner, Sr. — Montgomery, N.J. ........54.89

LANE 3 Hank Poppe, So. — San Ramon Vly., Ca. .54.87

LANE 4 Ben Cono, Sr. — Smithtown Central, N.Y. 54.72

LANE 5 Jordy Groters, Sr. — University, Fl. .............54.76

LANE 6 Christian Lorenz, Sr. — Avon, Ind. ..............54.88

LANE 7 Ian Finnerty, Jr. — Bloomington So., Ind. 54.91

LANE 8 Thomas McCormick, Sr. — Henderson, Pa.54.92


New Trier — Winnetka, Ill. (2-24-12)................2:59.76p

Sam Skinner, Reed Malone, Jack Mangan, Max Grodecki


Bolles — Jacksonville, Fl. (11-10-12)...............2:54.43

Ryan Murphy, Santo Condorelli,

Josh Booth, Joseph Schooling

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALLANE 1 Brother Rice — Bloomfield Hills, Mich. 3:02.06

LANE 2 Fairfield College Prep — Fairfield, Ct. . 3:01.08

LANE 3 Greenwich — Greenwich, Ct. .................. 3:00.59

LANE 4 Granada — Livermore, Ca. (5-17-14) ..2:59.00*

Nick Silverthorn Sr., Bryce McLaggan Sr.,

Trent Trump Sr., Maxime Rooney So.

LANE 5 Chesterton — Chesterton, Ind. ............... 2:59.36

LANE 6 Regis Jesuit — Auroro, Colo. .................... 3:00.87

LANE 7 Bolles — Jacksonville, Fl. ......................... 3:01.86

LANE 8 Creighton Prep — Omaha, Neb............3:02.23

CONSOLATION FINALLANE 1 North Allegheny — Wexford, Pa. ........... 3:03.49

LANE 2 Phillips Academy — Andover, Mass. ..... 3:03.27

LANE 3 Redlands — Redlands, Ca. ........................ 3:02.60

LANE 4 Bellarmine Prep — San Jose. Ca. ........... 3:02.36

LANE 5 William S. Hart — Newhall, Ca. .............. 3:02.41

LANE 6 Upper St. Clair — Pittsburgh, Pa. ........... 3:03.04


LANE 8 Deerfield Academy — Deerfield, Mass.3:03.54

for the 2013-14 NISCA High School Boys’ All-America lists.

HEAT SHEET

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arity reigned on the boys’ side of Swimming World’s national

high school championships, as eight schools featured swimmers with the top time in the country. Baylor (Tenn.), Clay (Fla.) and Creighton (Neb.) each scored two No. 1 times out of the 11 swimming events:

• Baylor’s winning times came in the 200 yard medley relay (national high school record 1:27.74) and from Sam McHugh in the 500 free (4:16.76), who also swam butterfly on the win-ning relay with Luke Kaliszak (back-stroke), Dustin Tynes (breaststroke) and Christian Selby (freestyle).

• Caeleb Dressel, Swimming World’s Male High School Swimmer of the Year, carried Clay High School in his nation-leading times in the 50 and 200 free (19.29, 1:34.69). His 50 time broke the national record of 19.36 that Dressel had swum earlier in the season. That swim eclipsed the 19.43 swum by Vlad Morozov in 2010. Moro-zov went on to win an Olympic medal as well as multiple NCAA titles. In fact, the past two national high school re-cord holders in the 50 free—Morozov and Jimmy Feigen—have found much success internationally in their post-high school careers.

• Creighton Prep also had a ban-ner year, celebrating the season’s fast-est high school swim in the 200 free relay (1:22.09) and a national high school record in the 100 breast by Ja-cob Molacek (52.92). His time was just one of many swims in that event that took the race to a new level. Runner-up Connor Hoppe (53.06) and juniors Andrew Seliskar (53.24) and Carsten

Vissering (53.49) signaled the dawn of a new era of breaststroke.

Placing fifth on that list of 100 breaststrokers with a very fast 53.81 was Mountain View St. Francis’ (Calif.) Curtis Ogren, who chased after his own national independent school record of 1:45.01 in the 200 IM. The Stanford-bound star got that record with a 1:44.90 to lead the high school rankings over four swimmers who clocked 1:45s.

The Bolles School (Fla.) is perenni-ally a class above the rest throughout the boys’ rankings. In this rebuilding year, the defending national team champion still sent shockwaves through the ranks with a national high school record in the 100 fly (45.52) from Joseph Schooling, bound for the University of Texas in the fall.

With Dressel sitting out the 100 free in high school competition, the door was open for Michigan-bound Paul Powers of North Hall High (Ga.) to take top honors in 43.19—only 85-hundredths off the public school and overall national high school rec-ord of 42.34.

Another swimmer with great po-tential is Hatboro-Horsham’s (Pa.) Mi-chael Thomas, who posted the fastest 100 back with a 46.65. He was more than a second off Ryan Murphy’s na-tional high school record of 45.34

but Thomas did break Murphy’s USA Swimming national age group record for 15-16 boys. Thomas, who also ranked sixth in the 200 IM (1:46.11) behind five seniors, is set for an ex-plosive final year of high school.

Granada High School (Calif.), which finished second in the team race by only one point to Chesterton High School (Ind.), set a national public school record in May in the 400 free relay (2:59.00). That time beat Ches-terton’s record of 2:59.36 swum in February.

Who’s No. 1?If you’ve been reading this issue of Swimming World Magazine

page by page, you already know that Carmel and Chesterton—

both high schools from Indiana—were the respective top girls’

and boys’ teams this past season. But who turned in the top high

school performances of the year in each event? Read on...

BY JEFF COMMINGS

NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS: TOP PERFORMANCES

[PHOTO BY PETER H. BICK]

PICTURED > CREIGHTON PREP’S (NEB.)

JACOB MOLACEK SET A NATIONAL HIGH

SCHOOL RECORD IN THE 100 YARD BREAST

IN 52.92 TO BECOME THE FIRST PREP SWIM-

MER TO CRACK 53 SECONDS IN THE EVENT.

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U.S. national high school records were broken in nine events during the 2013-14 prep season. In an additional six events, public and/or independent school records were set.

Yet, as outstanding as these perfor-mances were, there have been some blazing fast times swum in years past that would still hold their own today.

Perhaps the most impressive event from yesteryear was the 500 yard freestyle—for both genders.

Jeff Kostoff’s remarkable 4:16.39 in 1983 withstood 30 years of attempts to break the record before Jack Con-ger smashed it in 2013 with a 4:13.87. Still, Kostoff’s time would have led the nation this past high school sea-son!

Meanwhile, Janet Evans’ blister-ing 4:37.30 from 1988 held firm as the high school record for 18 years until Kate Ziegler came along with a 4:33.35 in 2006. This year, Katie Ledecky took it to an entirely differ-ent level with her 4:28.71. Surpris-ingly, Evans’ time from 1988 would have placed second this year behind only Ledecky’s performance, which was also an American record.

And back in 2005, Jessica Hardy became the first high school girl to break a minute in the 100 yard breast when she clocked 59.20. Sure enough, that time is still fast enough to lead all high school swimmers this past season.

In fact, only one swim has been faster in high school than Hardy’s—and that is Kasey Carlson’s techsuit-aided 58.75 from 2009.

KATIE LEDECKY LEADS STRONG SEASON FOR GIRLS

Katie Ledecky, Swimming World’s Female High School Swimmer of the Year, set national high school records this past season in the 200 and 500 free (1:42.38, 4:28.71—also an Ameri-can record). But the junior from Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart (Md.) wasn’t the only double record breaker.

Saugus High School’s (Calif.) Ab-bey Weitzeil broke the national high school marks in the 50 and 100 free

(21.98, 47.82), capping off a season in which the top two scoring teams—Carmel (Ind.) and Hershey (Pa.)—did not field a winning individual swim.

Carmel’s runaway win (176 points) was decided by their dominance in the three relays (1:40.83 200 MR, 1:31.37 200 FR, 3:21.20 400 FR—all national public school records), while Hershey (119) showed depth across the board in several events to make up for a superstar swimmer. Crean Lutheran (Calif.) finished third in the team standings, three points behind

Hershey, on the strength of Ella Eas-tin.

Eastin won the 200 IM with a 1:56.54 and swam fast enough to place in a tie for 11th in the 100 free (49.82). However, because she swam on all three point-scoring relays, high school championship rules meant she could only score in one individual event.

Besides Ledecky, Weitzeil and East-in, only three other swimmers topped the nation in individual events:

• Katie McLaughlin, a junior for

Santa Margarita Catholic High School (Calif.), scored a national high school record in the 100 fly (51.78).

• Ally Howe of Sacred Heart Prep (Calif.) took down the national inde-pendent school record with a 51.54 in the 100 back that was 11-hundredths of a second off the overall national mark of Olivia Smoliga.

• Penn High School’s (Ind.) Bethany Galat dipped under a minute for the first time to score a nation-leading 59.66 in the 100 breast.

PICTURED > JEFF

KOSTOFF, WHOSE

4:16.39 HIGH SCHOOL

RECORD FROM 1983 WAS

NEVER BROKEN FOR 30

YEARS, ALSO WON USA

SWIMMING’S ROBERT

J.H. KIPHUTH AWARD

AT SPRING NATIONALS

THAT SAME YEAR AS

THE MALE HIGH-POINT

CHAMPION.

STANDING THE TEST OF TIMEBY JASON MARSTELLER

[PHOTO BY PETER H. BICK]

PICTURED > ALLY HOWE OF SACRED HEART PREP (CALIF.) BETTERED MISSY FRANKLIN’S

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL RECORD IN THE 100 YARD BACK, LEAVING AMERICA’S SUPER-

STAR WITH ONLY ONE RECORD REMAINING (100 FREE) FROM HER HIGH SCHOOL DAYS.

HOWE’S 51.54 WAS ALSO ONLY 11-HUNDREDTHS OFF THE OVERALL NATIONAL MARK OF

OLIVIA SMOLIGA.

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The line of 45 U.S. Olympic swim-mers stretched down the hallowed foyer filled with paintings and busts of renowned American presidents. It was, perhaps, the most honored venue in American life: the White House, home of the President of the United States. The 1980 U.S. Olympic swim team was being honored with a visit to see President Jimmy Carter. Yet many of these American athletes had mixed emotions about being invited to the home of the man who had kept them from competing at the 1980 Games.

But not their coach...George Haines was the head coach

of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team and considered by many as one of the greatest swimming coaches ever. He had been the international leader of American teams for the previous 20 years, during which time his swim-mers—especially his female swim-mers—had dominated not only in the U.S., but also at the Games them-selves. Coach Haines waited at the end of the reception line for his turn to meet the President.

BOYCOTT RATIONALEThe stated impetus for a boycott

of the 1980 Olympic Games was that the host country, the Soviet Union, had invaded neighboring nation, Af-ghanistan. Carter and his cabinet had considered various strategies to communicate their displeasure, and finally weighed the impact of a grain embargo versus an Olympic boycott. They selected the latter, in part be-cause of the harm it might do to the propaganda plan that the Soviet gov-ernment had put in place to showcase Soviet sports success to its struggling citizens. In fact, the government had installed 90 million television sets so that Soviet citizens could watch the Games. By holding the Olympics in Moscow, the government also hoped

to trumpet the merits of Soviet life to a worldwide audience.

Given the invasion, it seems that the Olympic ideal—Building a peaceful and better world in the Olympic Spirit which requires mutual understanding, with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play—was exactly what the world needed. But this President, with mis-erable approval ratings for his per-formance in office as it was, decided to withhold U.S. participation in the quadrennial celebration of athletic excellence as his primary strategy to apply leverage on the Soviets.

On Jan. 20, 1980, the President spoke to the country via an interview with Bill Monroe on the television show, “Meet The Press,” stating, “Nei-ther I nor the American people would support the sending of an American team to Moscow with Soviet invasion troops in Afghanistan.... If the Sovi-ets do not withdraw their troops im-mediately from Afghanistan within a month, I would not support the send-ing of an American team to the Olym-pics. It’s very important for the world to realize how serious a threat the So-viets’ invasion of Afghanistan is.”

The President then set out to strengthen the merit of his action by trying to persuade other countries to join the U.S. boycott. He sent repre-sentatives around the world in an ef-fort to convince American allies and neutral nations to join the boycott, and in so doing, rip the Olympic ex-perience out from under its athletes.

Among the countries that joined in the boycott were Japan, West Ger-many, China and Canada. There were also some countries that supported the boycott, but allowed their athletes to participate if they wished, includ-ing, most notably, Australia, Sweden, France and Great Britain. There was also talk of allowing American ath-letes to do the same, but that never came to fruition.

Eventually, 65 countries did not participate in the Olympics despite being invited, although not all was because of the boycott—some did not participate for economic reasons.

ATHLETES PUNISHEDCoach Haines inched his way to-

ward the President in the receiving line at the White House. When his

USA TURNS OUT OLYMPIC LIGHTS

TOP 10: TRIUMPHS & TRAGEDIES

Beginning in its April issue and running through January 2015,

Swimming World Magazine is counting down the top 10 triumphs and

tragedies in the history of swimming. This month:05 BY CHUCK WARNER

PICTURED > IN 1980, U.S. PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER ANNOUNCED THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD LEAD A BOYCOTT OF THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES IN MOSCOW TO PROTEST THE SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN. WITH THE BOYCOTT, HE HAD CRUELLY PLUCKED THE OPPORTUNITY FOR HUNDREDS OF ATHLETES TO COMPETE FOR OLYMPIC GLORY ON THE OLYMPIC STAGE.

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turn came to shake hands with Carter, George shook his hand, but wouldn’t let go. The self-assured leader of the American swimming team looked the leader of the free world in the eye and firmly asked, “Do you know what you did to these kids?”

President Carter had cruelly plucked the opportunity to experi-ence the pinnacle of one’s athletic ca-reer on the grandest stage from hun-dreds of athletes in all sports around the world.

The sacrifice of a swimmer missing an Olympics 34 years ago was even greater than it might be now because swimmers’ careers were so much shorter then. At that time, swimmers rarely continued past college. Profes-sional athletes were not allowed to compete in the Olympics until 1992, thus a college scholarship in the American NCAA system was one of the best ways to continue to train and compete beyond high school.

A STUNNING TURNAROUNDAfter Title IX became law in 1972,

U.S. colleges slowly infused funding into women’s sports programs; there-fore, many of the top female swim-mers were just beginning to have support to swim beyond high school.

Nonetheless, after the East Ger-man women annihilated their com-petition in the 1976 Olympics, the American women generated a stun-ning turnaround in a mere two years. A “kiddy corps” burst onto the scene at the 1978 World Swimming Cham-pionships. Led by 15-year-old Tracy Caulkins and 14-year-old Cynthia “Sippy” Woodhead, the American contingent competed in Berlin, the homeland of the reigning champions, and brought the Germans to their knees.

Caulkins, alone, won five gold medals, one silver medal and set two world records. Tracy’s versatility has no rival in the history of the sport, not even in Michael Phelps. Over the course of her career, she set American records in every stroke—and, yes, you can bet she had a pretty good indi-vidual medley, too!

In Berlin, she won both IMs and the 200 meter butterfly, swam breast-

stroke on the winning medley relay and freestyle on the winning 4 x 100 free relay, and she added a silver medal in the 100 breast. Had there been a 4 x 200 free relay, Tracy likely would have been on it and been a six-time world champion.

Woodhead won the 200 free in a world record time, and her range of freestyle events was as wide as her smile. She swam on the 400 free relay, anchored the 400 medley relay and was runners-up in both the 400 and 800 freestyles. Sippy’s training pro-gram in some years included 20,000 yards or more per day. She and Tracy had earned the opportunity to be-come two of the great swimmers in history—if only they could put their Olympic stamp on their careers.

TIMING IS EVERYTHINGThe reality of whether or not the

potential for Olympic glory fits into the time line of any swimmer is somewhat coincidental. But to per-form at your best in that particular year is the difference between a fine swimming career and an experience nearly as enduring as the Olympic flame. By the Moscow Games, Tracy and Sippy would logically be much closer to their peak than they had been two years earlier. In fact, head-ing into 1980, Sippy was ranked first in the world in the 100 and 200 free-styles, second in the 400 and third in the 800. Those two athletes would be joined by American phenom Mary T. Meagher—about 8-1/2 months younger than Sippy—who was rewrit-ing all the world records in butterfly from 1979 through 1981, to form the nucleus of a powerhouse Olympic women’s team.

The American men were enjoy-ing a thriving NCAA program during those years, but just like the women, many saw their Olympic dreams snuffed out. Three of the most nota-ble were Bill Barrett, Craig Beardsley and Rowdy Gaines, all of whom were in the middle or nearing the end of their collegiate careers.

Barrett (200 IM) and Beardsley (200 fly) were both world record holders by the end of the Olympic

PICTURED (TOP) > FIFTEEN-YEAR-

OLD TRACY CAULKINS LED THE NEW U.S. “KIDDY CORPS” THAT BURST ONTO THE SCENE AT THE 1978 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. HER VERSATILITY WAS UNRIVALED, SETTING AMERICAN RECORDS OVER THE COURSE OF HER CAREER IN EVERY STROKE AS WELL AS THE INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY. NO OTHER AMERICAN SWIMMER HAS DUPLICATED THAT ACHIEVEMENT.

PICTURED (ABOVE) > HEADING INTO 1980, CYNTHIA “SIPPY” WOODHEAD WAS RANKED FIRST IN THE WORLD IN THE 100 AND 200 METER FREESTYLES, AND WAS A STRONG CONTENDER IN THE 400 AND 800 AS WELL. YET, THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXCEL AT THE 1980 MOSCOW GAMES WAS DENIED BECAUSE OF THE U.S.-

LED BOYCOTT.

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summer, but with no opportunity to showcase their lifelong development of excellence. In April of 1980, Rowdy set the world record in the 50 free—not yet an Olympic event—but his best events were the 100 and 200 free, in both of which he would soon set world rec-ords. Backed by the prowess of American relays, Rowdy might well have become a world-wide swimming star for his Olympic medal haul, had he been given the opportunity.

Even the athletes who competed in Moscow suf-fered because the Games were not the same with-out the boycotting coun-tries. A good example was Soviet superstar Vladimir Salnikov, who had worked his way into becoming the best dis-tance freestyle swimmer in the world. However, the boycott prevented a much-anticipated show-down between Salnikov and the reigning Olympic champion Brian Goodell, who was only finishing his junior year of college in 1980.

The punishing treat-ment of the athletes by the President, in what rower Anita DeFrantz—later a member of the International and U.S. Olympic Committees—called, “...a pointless exercise and a shame-ful part of U.S. history,” caused widespread pain. Athletes who were positioned not only to win personal glory, but also to become glowing ambassadors for a peaceful world, were summarily ex-tracted from their experience by the decision of one political leader.

SETTING BACK THE SPORT OF SWIMMINGDespite the boycott—and other

political pressures brought to bear—the Soviet troops stayed in Afghani-stan until 1989.

The effect of the boycott, howev-er, stopped the momentum that the sport of swimming had been build-ing in attracting media and public

attention with the development of worldwide television broadcasts in the 1960s.

Swimming became a centerpiece of the 1972 Munich Games as the world witnessed Mark Spitz’s seven-gold-medal performance. The sport was seizing on the television expo-sure, building an interest in talented

young children and gaining respect from the general public. An estimat-ed half-billion people watched the 1976 Games in Montreal, and by the 2012 London Olympics, that number blew up to 4.8 billion. But NBC can-celed their contract to broadcast the

1980 Olympics in the USA since the Americans wouldn’t attend.

Consequently, the sport’s popularity was hindered.

Performance suffered as well.

The gains in swim-ming speed since Charles Daniels won the 100 free (in a 100-me-ter pool) at the 1908 London Olympics with a time of 1:05.8 is nothing short of amazing. Each step forward happens when an athlete finds a way to get a bit faster or win a race against a worthy adversary. These small steps spiral into the sport’s large mile-stones, but they were slowed with the boycott.

And because of the 1980 boycott, the So-viets retaliated with a boycott of their own, as the Soviet Union and 14 other Communist-friendly countries boy-cotted the 1984 Los An-geles Olympics.

All of this is why we see the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics as one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the sport of swimming.

Chuck Warner is a part of Swimming World Magazine’s editorial board and author of “Four Champions: One Gold Medal” and “And Then They Won Gold.” Both books are available for purchase online at www.SwimmingWorld.com. Next month: “Swimming’s Top 10 Tri-umphs and Tragedies: #4.”

OLYMPIC LIGHTS – continued from 35

PICTURED > THE 1980 OLYMPIC BOYCOTT PREVENTED A MUCH ANTICIPATED SHOWDOWN IN THE MEN’S 1500 BETWEEN SOVIET SUPERSTAR VLADIMIR SALNIKOV AND THE REIGNING OLYMPIC CHAMPION, THE USA’S BRIAN GOODELL. INSTEAD, SALNIKOV (SHOWN HERE ON THE COVER OF SWIMMING WORLD’S 1980 OLYMPIC ISSUE) DOMINATED, BECOMING THE FIRST PERSON TO BREAK 15 MINUTES WITH A 14:58.27.

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Use a box/step/platform that is about 8 to 12 inches high. With either foot, step up fully onto the top of the box/step/platform. Lift your upper leg to a position that is horizontal with the floor, and extend your arms vertically. Lower and alternate to the other leg.

We lose five percent of our strength every several years over the age of 35. As we age and lose strength, this can affect our stroke efficiency, stamina and speed. It can also lead to injuries.

OK...the simple solution: build strength! But what if we don’t have ac-cess to a gym? Well, this article is just for you: no gym necessary, no equip-ment necessary!

Body weight training is the new craze in strength and conditioning circles. It’s certainly not a new method, but it’s making a comeback in mainstream fit-ness.

So, here are some bodyweight exer-cises that you can do...at home!

Although you only use your body weight, technique is extremely impor-tant. Bad technique can lead to injury. Also, for some, your bodyweight may be too heavy for your current strength level. Therefore, I will suggest a few modifications.

Complete each exercise three days a week, every other day. Start with 2 sets of 10, then progress as follows each week: 3 x 10, 3 x 12, 3 x 15 and remain at 3 x 15.

You will feel stronger just doing the exercises in three weeks, and you should feel stronger in the water in four to five weeks.

MEET THE TRAINERJ.R. Rosania, B.S., exercise science, is one of the na-tion’s top performance en-hancement coaches. He is

the owner and CEO of Healthplex, LLC, in Phoenix. Check out Rosania’s website at www.jrhealthplex.net.

MEET THE ATHLETEMaureen Rankin is a nine-time All-American swimmer from the University of Ari-zona and former coach who

now swims Masters. She also is an Ath-letic & Lifestyle model for Sports & Life-style Unlimited as well as the circulation manager for Swimming World Magazine.

2

3Lying flat on your back with your knees slightly bent and hands behind your head, slowly raise your head and shoulders off the floor 4 to 6 inches. Keep your lower back pressed against the floor. Return to your starting position and repeat.

Use the standard form of push-up, with your feet and hands positioned about shoulder-width. Lower yourself to 2 inches above the floor and return to your starting position. Do not lock out your elbows. Push-ups can also be done from the knees for less resistance.

Stand with your legs and feet slightlywider than your hips, and extend yourarms straight above your head. Begin slowly by bending your knees and lower-ing your body to a half-squat position. Push back up by using your quads and glutes. You can reduce the difficulty of this exercise by leaning your back on a physio ball with the ball against a wall.

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1GET STRONG...AT HOME!

DRYSIDE//TRAINING

BY J.R. ROSANIAPHOTOS BY EMMI BRYTOWSKI

DEMONSTRATED BY MAUREEN RANKIN

CRUNCHES

SQUATS

STEP-UPS

PUSH-UPS

to learn more about another exercise: Lunges.

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NUTRITION

There is an overwhelming amount of scientific and real-world evidence that demonstrates that a diet rich in carbohydrates is critical to success in endurance sports.

Carbohydrates are stored in the body as liver and muscle glycogen. Without it, an athlete’s ability to perform at high intensity is severely diminished.

(For more detailed information, pick up a copy of “The Feed Zone Cookbook” by Biju Thomas and Allen Lim. This book and others about nutrition for athletes is available online from VeloPress.com—see ads, pages 41 and 45.)

• • •In this month’s nutrition column,

Swimming World continues to provide flavorful, easy recipes for athletes. This month’s recipe comes from “The Feed Zone Cookbook,” a no-fuss guide to preparing good food that will satisfy an athlete’s cravings and prepare the body for top performance.

Try out this sample recipe (at left). It is a light-bodied, flavorful pasta that carries a bright burst of fresh uncooked corn. The dish is typically prepared prior to a day of training or racing and is put in the cooler to eat at the end of the day. Hot or cold, it’s an excellent way to recover. (TIP: use roasted chicken or eggs in place of the bacon to get more protein in this dish.) .

Republished with permission of VeloPress from “The Feed Zone Cookbook: Fast and Flavorful Food for Athletes.”

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INGREDIENTS:• 8 ounces angel hair pasta• 8 ounces bacon, chopped• 2 ears of uncooked sweet corn• 1 tomato, diced• 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, cut into strips• 1-1/2 tablespoons olive oil

DIRECTIONS:• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook for 6-8 minutes, or until al dente.• While the pasta is boiling, fry the bacon in a medium sauté pan. When bacon gets crispy, drain off fat and wrap in paper towels to remove any excess fat.• Use a knife to carefully cut the kernels off the ears of corn.• Drain the pasta. Transfer pasta, bacon and corn to a large bowl. Add tomato, basil, olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Fold everything together.• Top with grated parmesan and a squeeze of lemon juice.

PER SERVING:679 calories, 20 g fat, 969 mg sodium, 108 g carbs, 7 g fiber, 23 g protein

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1. Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor, shoulder-width apart.

2. Bring your hands behind your neck with your elbows wide and pressing into the floor.

3. Gently draw your belly button toward your spine to engage your abdominals.

4. Keeping your elbows wide, curl your upper body off the floor. Keep the tips of your shoul-der blades on the floor. Use your abdominals to lift your body, not your neck!

5. Keep your gaze on your belly button to minimize neck strain, and do not use your hands to pull on your neck.

Return to your starting position. Do three sets of 10 reps.

1. Lie on your back with your legs in a tabletop position.

2. Place your hands behind your head with your elbows wide.

3. Draw your belly button toward your spine.

4. Bend your left knee into your chest and extend your right leg out. Make sure you keep your right leg high so that your low back stays on the ground. If you feel your low back lift off the floor, raise your right leg.

5. Keeping your elbows wide, reach your right elbow to your left knee.

6. Gaze back over your left shoulder. Switch sides and repeat eight times on each side.

1. Lie face down with your legs hip-width apart and your hands under your forehead.

2. Pull your belly button off the floor by engaging your abdominal muscles.

3. Keeping your hands on your forehead and your toes pressing down into the floor, gently raise your head and hands off the floor a few inches.

4. Hold for five seconds and slowly lower. Repeat 10 times.

1. Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Feet should be hip-width apart.

2. Press your arms and hands into the floor and gaze up at the ceiling.

3. Draw your belly button toward your spine.

4. Lift your hips to the ceiling and hold for a count of 10. Repeat five times.

In addition to stretches or foam rolling in order to enhance swim-ming performance and minimize injury, one way to accomplish these goals is to incorporate strengthen-ing exercises into your routine. The most efficient way to do this is by strengthening your core.

The core is defined as those mus-cles that run from the upper torso to the gluteal muscles that compro-mise the front and the back of the body. These muscles are responsible for strength and posture.

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Dr. Shannon McBride, a licensed chiro-practor based in Atlanta, Ga., has been practicing since 2001. She also is cer-tified in Pilates through Power Pilates and the Pilates Method Alliance.

Here are four exercises that can be performed three times a week to strengthen and develop your core.

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DR. SHANNON

CURL-UPS (FOR RECTUS ABDOMINUS)

BICYCLE (FOR ABDOMINAL OBLIQUES)

SWAN (FOR BACK EXTENSOR MUSCLES)

BRIDGE (FOR GLUTEAL MUSCLES)

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Q. SWIMMING WORLD: You served as a head coach at the Counsilman Stroke Analysis Clinics. Besides Doc, what oth-er swim influences did you have?A. COACH ANNE GOODMAN JAMES: Doc (Counsilman) taught me to ques-tion everything and to try new things. My high school/club coach, Neil Mat-zen, was a strong influence at the time I decided I wanted to be a col-lege swimming coach. My college coach, Laura Kitzmiller, taught me so much about how to treat people and how to motivate those you lead. Jean Freeman was a wonderful example and mentor as a pioneer woman in coaching. I learn from everyone I coach with and against, from coaches in other sports and from people in the business world. I am part of a group of women’s coaches called The Summit, and I continue to be profoundly influ-enced by everyone in the group.

SW: With all your success, why did you leave Northern Michigan University?AGJ: In 1996, the University of Arkan-sas asked me to apply for the head coach position. Arkansas was an op-portunity to get back into Division I and the SEC, the premier swimming conference in the country.

SW: In 2006, you made the decision to go to D-III Colorado College.AGJ: One draw was the division’s academic/athletic balance. Being a non-scholarship division was very attractive. Athletes in D-III are there only because they want to swim—not influenced by any money involved, which creates a very positive team environment. Coaching in all three

NCAA divisions has been invaluable, and I am fortunate to have found such a great fit at Colorado College.

SW: Do you still stress training by bal-ancing different energy systems?AGJ: Successful coaching is both a science and an art. Planning for train-ing the different systems and balanc-ing those for the different training groups is the science of coaching. De-signing individual tapers and getting the team to share the vision of what is possible during taper is the art of coaching.The art of coaching is also about relationships, leading people to believe in themselves and building a team culture in which everyone is invested in one another’s success. It is about developing a place where it is safe enough to try new things and even risk failure because those things lead to personal growth and to swim-ming success.

SW: What is a normal weekly training schedule?AGJ: We practice two-and-a half hours on Monday through Friday afternoons and on Saturday mornings. Occasion-ally, we will swim a morning instead of an afternoon. We do not swim doubles except during our semester break/training trip. I am very pleased with the swimming results over the last eight years on this schedule. The additional sleep our students get is a plus for their athletic performance, allows for better academic achieve-ment and gives them a better oppor-tunity to be more involved on campus and in the community. I don’t like to

Q & A

Anne Goodman James (Texas Tech University, B.S., physical education, ’75; Indiana University, M.S., kine-siology/biomechanics, ’76) is a suc-cessful and respected swimming lifer. In her 38 years on deck, she has coached at Texas Tech, Cal State Hay-ward, Northern Michigan University, University of Arkansas and Colorado College. In the process, she has men-tored three Olympians, 29 national champions and 93 All-Americans. She also has won eight conference coach-of-the-year honors and twice been named NCAA Division II Coach of the Year (1988, 1991). In addi-tion, she is a current CSCAA board member, having been president from 1993-95, and she was the 2005 re-cipient of the Richard E. Steadman Award. She also served on the NCAA Swimming Committee from 1987-94 and 2007-13 and was a commit-tee chair in both Divisions II and III. She was inducted into the Northern Michigan University Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.

Coach Anne Goodman James

Head Swimming Coach

Colorado College

Colorado Springs, Colorado

ANNE GOODMAN JAMESAnne Goodman James has spent 38 years as a head coach in all

three NCAA divisions. These days, she is dispensing aquatic

wisdom and producing national champions at Colorado College.

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HOW THEY TRAIN: JORDAN DEGAYNERBY MICHAEL J. STOTT PHOTOS PROVIDED BY

COLORADO COLLEGEordan DeGayner left Colorado College in 2012 as a 200

yard freestyle national champion, six-time All-American, CSCAA and CoSIDA Academic All-American and twice the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year. Two years later, he is still the school record holder in four individual events—50-100-200 yard free (20.55, 44.81, 1:37.51), 100 fly (49.14)—and the 200-400-800 free relays (1:23.26, 3:04.02, 6:45.85).

His coach, Anne Goodman James, remembers him as “intelligent, serious, focused and analytical, with a great kinesthetic sense. Jordan was a backhalf swimmer, who was famous for his come-from-behind victories. His 200 free his senior year at the 2012 NCAA Division III Na-tional Championships was arguably the most dramatic race of the meet,” she says. “No matter what, he would find a way to get his hand on the wall first.” In that race, DeGayner was seventh at the 150, fifth at the 175 and touched in 1:37.51 to tie University of Redlands Tyler Harp for his national championship.

“Jordan had a very impressive work ethic,” says James, noting that most of DeGayner’s improvements came from big gains in strength training and technique im-provement. “He was open and willing to make any sug-gested changes and was very focused on implementing those changes even when he was tired in practice.”

DeGayner is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry at Northwestern University.

Below are some of his sample training sets:

PICTURED > JORDAN DEGAYNER

MID-SEASON AND LATE SEASON12 x 100 on 2:30(Each 100 done as 75 at 80-85 percent of best time,

based on 75 split of race 100—DeGayner held :40 to :41, as calculated. After a 20-second rest, sprint 25 at least as fast as 100 race pace. Take time and stroke rate on the 25—DeGayner’s 25s were 11.6 to 11.8, with stroke rates at 1.15 to 1.27.)

MID-SEASON2 rounds of:

(Rest 5 minutes between rounds. Second round in re-verse order. Time the 50 at the end of round 1—Jordan was :24—and the 100 at the end of round 2—Jordan was :50.)

LATE SEASONSwim 3x (6 x 50) on :40 to :45(4:00 between rounds. All 50s at 2nd 50 of 200 goal

pace—24.5 to foot touch.)

MID- AND LATE SEASON2 rounds of:1 x 300 free, negative split on 4:004 x 75 fly, descend on 1:151 x 300 free, negative split faster on 4:001 x 50 easy on 2:004 x 50 fly, fast descend to best time +3 or better on 1:004 x 25 no breath (free or fly) on :45Rest 1:001 x 100 FAST fly on 5:00(Goal time is best +5 or better—Jordan typically was

:52 to :53 on the fly.)• • •

The power rack was an integral part of DeGayner’s training. It was done three times per week throughout the season. Sets varied from 16 on :40 in the early season to 4 on 2:00 in late season, with increasing weight as the sea-son progressed. All power rack sessions were timed and power ratios calculated.

PROGRESSION OF TIMESSCY HS FR SO JR SR100 Free 49.30 46.98* 46.21 45.08 44.81 (43.52r)200 Free 1:46.49 1:41.67* 1:40.44 1:38.64 1:37.51* = Times attained in technical suitNOTE: DeGayner dropped his 52.63 100 fly time in high school to 49.14 in college.

1 x 100 on 1:055 x 50 on :502 x 100 on 1:074 x 50 on :453 x 100 on 1:09

3 x 50 on :404 x 100 on 1:112 x 50 on :355 x 100 on 1:131 x 50 on :30

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be too predictable, so our daily schedule regarding type of work varies throughout the season and by training group.

SW: How about kicking and pulling?AGJ: We kick more and more each year, mostly without a board. When done with a board, we emphasize engaging the core and keeping the back flat. I like to mix kick and swim within the set to transfer good kicking into the stroke. We don’t pull much.

SW: What is a typical weekly dryland schedule?AGJ: Most of our team spends an hour in the weight room two days a week; sprinters go three times per week. We have a full-time strength coach and a new and expanded weight room. Lifts emphasize full body movement and pro-mote in-water connectivity.

A yoga instructor comes in weekly. The breath control and the mind-body connection may be more important than the core strength and flexibility that yoga develops. We also spend the first 20 to 30 minutes of each practice doing muscle activation techniques—instead of stretch-ing—as well as a variety of core strength exercises.

SW: You spoke at a CHSAA seminar on the topic of “Getting into College Swimming.” Any advice for parents?AGJ: Swimming in college is an amazing experience and yields invaluable lifetime friendships. There is a wide range of teams within each division. These teams vary in talent, accomplishments, expectations and atmosphere. Be open to the fact that all three divisions offer outstanding oppor-tunities, and choose the school that best fits you academi-cally and athletically.

Be realistic about athletic scholarship expectations. Ath-letic scholarships are available in Divisions I and II, while Division III offers academic and need-based packages that can be very generous. Be aware that only about three percent of high school swimmers receive a college swim-ming scholarship—with almost all being partial awards. The amount of the scholarship will depend on team needs, where you would score in a conference meet or on the na-tional level, number of scholarships they have available.... So, research the teams you are interested in—as well as the conference and division in which they compete.

Swimmers shouldn’t wait for the coaches to contact them. You should initiate contact with the colleges you are interested in. Don’t be afraid that you can’t handle swim-ming and academics on the college level. Yes, you will be busy, but nationally, busy college swimmers typically have some of the highest grades on campus.


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Taylor Ruck, 14, trains at Scottsdale Aquatic Club (Ariz.) with Coach Kevin Zacher. Ruck, who has been a known commodity for years in Arizona Swimming, started mak-ing her mark nationally this year.

At this summer’s junior nationals, Ruck finished sec-ond in the 200 meter freestyle (2:00.14), just behind 16-year-old Stanzi Moseley (1:59.88). She also posted personal bests in the 50, 100 and 800 free (26.65, 55.79, 8:49.69) as well as the 200 back (2:13.05).

“Taylor is a great young lady,” says Zacher. “She works hard and listens well. She is a good teammate, and she’s friendly with everyone in our group. Taylor is very fo-cused on her swimming and has lofty goals. She likes to race and loves to win.

“She is wonderful to coach, and I look forward to great things from her,” adds Zacher. “I think something that sets her apart in the pool is that she doesn’t yet know how good she is. She is having fun with racing."

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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS YOUR

BIGGEST STRENGTH IN SWIMMING?

“I really strive for consistency and to show up and work hard for every practice. Proper technique has also been very important for me. From a young age, Coach Maryanne Keever drilled proper stroke technique into me, and then I was strongly supported consistently all the way through Scottsdale Aquatic Club from Coach Laurel Ney, Coach Bob Platt and Head Coach Kevin Zacher.”

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BIGGEST

CHALLENGES YOU HAVE HAD TO OVERCOME?

“I have had to overcome some shoulder issues beginning around 11 years old due to my growth, but I’ve received really good help from my coaches and chiropractic specialists that has really made a difference. I consistently do special stretches, and I’m always careful to ice my shoulders after every workout.”

AFTER A GREAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON,

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MOST?

“I’m really looking forward to the high school swim season, as I’m a freshman at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale. Many of my friends from Scottsdale Aquatic Club attend Chaparral with me, and I’m excited to represent my new school with them.”

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES?

“I really enjoy art, hiking—and, of course, my pug!”

WHO IS YOUR SWIMMING IDOL...AND WHY?

“I would have to say that I really admire both Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky. It’s really awesome to watch how focused both of them get when it comes to race time, and I think they are both really good role models for younger swimmers like me.”

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DAN FLACKHead Coach, Baylor School

“I’m all for competition and letting the kids’ hard work allow them to see the country. So, I’m not necessarily (in favor of) splitting the meet into East/West versions. At the end of the day, we want to race the best our country has to offer.”

TODD SCHMITZHead Coach, Colorado Stars

“I think the winter junior nationals split is great. For two years, we have had to fly through two time zones for the meet on the East Coast, and this is right before finals in high school. As a sport, we need to make sure we have an opportu-nity for all the additional athletes who are not quite at sectionals level.”

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TYLER FENWICKAssociate Coach, University of Tennessee

“I give the senior development committee a tremendous amount of credit for the proposed changes. Returning to an East/West format for winter juniors will continue to foster regional rivalries, while the slightly relaxed standards will create more opportunity for athletes to experi-ence introductory national-level com-petition in a team atmosphere.”

DANA KIRKHead Coach, PASA-DKS (an affiliate of Palo Alto Stanford)

“USA Swimming’s proposals do a good job to address the rising level of commitment and achievement in our sport. Swimmers are stayinglonger and getting faster younger, which causes a lot of bunching at the top levels. Another level of meets

would help bridge the gap between section-als and juniors, but a true junior national

championships should be the end goal, as this allows club teams from both the East Coast and the West Coast to really go head-to-head.”

PAM SWANDERNorth Region Manager and Head Coach, SwimMAC

“Coming from a standpoint of developing our future Olympians, anything that limits time away from home and school for our 18-and-unders during the school year is the best scenario for competing at the highest level. The East/West meet gives more juniors the opportunity to compete—and continue to develop. That experience is important.”

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PICTURED > AT THE RECENT U.S. NATIONALS IN IRVINE, SWIMMER TYLER CLARY

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