MAY 2021 FEATURES
026 TAKEOFF TO TOKYO: WHEN IRISH EYES WEREN’T SMILING
014 WOMEN’S NCAAs: A NEW NO. 1 For the first time in the history of the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships—since 1982—the University of Virginia finished first. It was also the first time it cracked the top 5 with its previous highest finish sixth in 2019.
by John Lohn Ireland’s Michelle Smith—a four-time Olympic medalist in 1996 who received a four-year ban from the sport in 1998 for tampering with a doping sample—has been defined as being a poster girl for cheating, and by her willingness to cut corners and take advantage of performance-enhancing drug use to make the leap from an athlete of very-good skill to one of elite status.
• VIRGINIA’S ROAD TO HISTORY by Dan D’Addona • NC STATE ADDS TO ACC DOMINANCE by Dan D’Addona • THE TALK OF THE MEET: MAGGIE MacNEIL by John Lohn 018 MEN’S NCAAs: THE PERFECT RETIREMENT GIFT Days before their coach, Eddie Reese, officially announced his retirement from coaching after 43 years, the Texas men’s team won their 15th men’s NCAA national team championship. • THIS ONE’S FOR EDDIE! by Andy Ross • SCINTILLATING PERFORMANCES: SHAINE CASAS & RYAN HOFFER by John Lohn • PATIENCE REWARDED: MAX McHUGH & NICK ALBIERO by Andy Ross 022 NCAA D-II CHAMPS: SOME THINGS NEVER SEEM TO CHANGE by Andy Ross A year into the pandemic that has completely changed our world, Queens University of Charlotte brought about some stability to the 2021 NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships by sweeping their sixth straight women’s and men’s team titles. 023 NO LIMITS! by David Rieder Claire Curzan has been swimming fast since she was a young age grouper and has continued to do so in high school. Last March, she came within 13-hundredths of the American record in the short course 100 fly, and in April, she found herself within 22-hundredths of the long course U.S. best. She’s versatile, she’s coachable, she has international experience, and she’s moved from a fringe Olympic contender to an Olympic favorite. Curzan is only 16, and her promising future couldn’t be brighter.
029 50 SWIMMERS, 6 MEDALS by Dan D’Addona The Tokyo Olympics will mark the fourth occasion that open water swimming will be contested on the Olympic level, and even a 10-kilometer marathon race can bring exciting moments and dramatic finishes. 030 JOSH MATHENY: RISING STAR by Matthew De George From a middle-schooler newly committed to swimming full-time in 2016, the future looks encouraging for 18-year-old Josh Matheny, who approaches the U.S. Olympic Trials for Tokyo in June as a dark horse to make the team in men’s breaststroke. 032 ISHOF: THE ART OF SWIMMING by Bruce Wigo This is the story of Hero and Leander, Lord Byron and the birth of open water swimming. 035 NUTRITION: HYDRATION— BEYOND THIRST! by Dawn Weatherwax Hydration truly has a daily importance for all kinds of swimmers from age groupers to Olympians to Masters swimmers, but it tends to get more notoriety when the weather gets warmer.
COACHING 012 THE POWER OF POSITIVE COACHING by Michael J. Stott Relationships built upon honesty, trust and communication go a long way toward cementing a bond between coach and athlete. Coupling that with knowledge of the individual first and athlete second produces a positive working relationship that can last for a lifetime.
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ON THE COVER Many consider Eddie Reese to be the greatest coach of all time. Two days after the conclusion of the 2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in March, Reese announced his retirement, closing the door on one of the most successful coaching careers for anyone in the sport of swimming and the entire landscape of college sports. Reese’s 15 national titles are the most for any coach in NCAA Division I men’s swimming—four more than Ohio State’s Mike Peppe, who won 11 titles from 1943-62...and three more than Michigan’s 12 titles under four different coaches between 1937 and 2013. (See feature, pages 16-19.) [ PHOTO COURTESY ISHOF ARCHIVE]
038 SWIMMING TECHNIQUE CONCEPTS: MAXIMIZING SWIMMING VELOCITY (Part 1)—STROKE RATE vs. STROKE LENGTH by Rod Havriluk Swimming velocity is the criterion measure for swimming performance and is the product of stroke length and stroke rate. This article explains how stroke length and stroke rate vary and how stroke time provides insight into maximizing swimming velocity. 042 Q&A WITH COACH STEVE HAUFLER by Michael J. Stott 044 HOW THEY TRAIN CHARLOTTE SHAMIA by Michael J. Stott
TRAINING 037 DRYSIDE TRAINING: THE IM DRYLAND CIRCUIT by J.R. Rosania
JUNIOR SWIMMER 047 UP & COMERS: TEAGAN O’DELL by Shoshanna Rutemiller
COLUMNS 008 A VOICE FOR THE SPORT 011 DID YOU KNOW: ABOUT THE MOREHOUSE TIGER SHARKS? 046 THE OFFICIAL WORD 048 GUTTERTALK 049 PARTING SHOT
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