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For details call: IMS at 1 (800) 428-3003 Editorial Offices: SwimNews 356 Sumach St., Toronto, Ontario, M4X1V4, CANADA Tel: (416) 963-5599 Fax: (416) 963-5545 E-mail: swimnews@swimnews.com http://www.swimnews.com Contents P w-June 2004 CONSECUTIVE NUMBER 279 VOlS IMF 31 XliMRFR Z FEATURES 6 2004 Canadian Olympic Team Preview IlliVlYl 3-F1YUC11 Tougher Standards for Athens Could Be Smallest Team in Three Decades 8 Canadian Personality: Rhiannon Leier Ipff Qracp The Olymic Dream Hard Work and Belief Made It Happen r r 14 Swimming History f.pcil r.olwin Vj W 11 TT 111 Jon Henricks and The Birth of the Shave-Down 16-17 Poster: Otyliajedrzejczak Marco Chiesa 18 Personality: Eddie Reese Jeff Grace There Is No Easy Way Finding A Way To Go Faster Each Year 20 American Personality: Aaron Peirsol Nikki Drvden The Perfect Swimmer Not Afraid To Be Fast, Hopes For Four Golds in Athens 22 The Continuing Crisis Nikki Dryden Using Human-Rights Tools To Fight Doping A Closer Look At State-Sponsored Systematic Doping Programs 25 Book Review Nikki Dryden The Performance Zone Sports Nutrition For Winning, Keeping Healthy, and Getting An Edge 26 2004 European Championships Nick Thierry Ukraine Wins Most Golds Weather, Crowded Calendar, Reduce Participation Cover: Rhiannon Leier Photo: Patrick Kramer Morgan Knabe Eddie Reese Laure Manaudou 3 Contents 10 TOP (Tiny Olympic Prospects) 5 Calendar 14-16 TOP (Tiny Olympic Prospects) 5 Canadian Long Course Records 23 GDR Medal Totals 1954-89 6 2000 Men's Canadian Trials Top Four 24 Drug Positives Since 1973 7 2000 Women's Canadian Trials Top Four 28 Record European Championships 8 Canadian Olympic Selection Standards 30 Making Waves SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 3 Nick Thierry In this issue we give you a preview of the Canadian Trials. Eight swimmers have earned pre-selection having made the very hard standards already last year in Barcelona at the World Championships. That's one of only two opportinities to reach the time. The only other chance will be at the Trials. In 9 of the 26 individual events the selection standard is faster than the Canadian Record. The Olympic dream could be a nightmare for many. Next up is a profile of Canadian breaststroker Rhiannon Leier, heading to her second Olympics at age 27. The final TOP lisings have all three performances for those that took part and you'll be able to see the progression of many of the participants. A new TOP record was done by Alexandra Gabor, from Whitehorse (Yukon) with a 19: 1 1.70, bettering the old mark of 19:12.09 from 1986. Cecil Colwin writes on the first shave-down from the early 1950s by Jon Henricks (AUS) who won two golds at the 1956 Olympics. The idea was based on observing how racing sailboats had their hulls sanded to increase the boats coasting speed. Sprinters move at a maximum speed of four miles- an-hour so Henricks' father thaught the idea could be applied to swimmers by shaving down all the body hair. The rest is history. The poster in the middle of this issue is of Otyliajedrzejczak (POL) world record holder in the 200 butterfly and who has very fast 200 (1:57.58) and 400 (4:07.65) freetsyle times this year. She could be one of the stars in Athens. Jeff Grace writes on Eddie Reese, head men's coach at the University of Texas and the 2004 Head Men's USA Olympic Coach. Reese has a very successful program and the article explains his approach. One of the top swimmers currently coached by Eddie Reese is 200 backstroker world record holder Aaron Peirsol. Nikki Dryden writes on what makes him great. Nikki has just finished second year Law School and shares with us a synopsis of a paper she submitted as part of her international human rigths law class. It's a new aproach to solve what has been a growing problem for the last 30 years. — State sponsored drug use. The Performance Zone is a new book on Sport Nutrition. Nikki Dryden reviews it and found it most informative, recommending it to swimmer, coach, or parent. The 2004 European Championships were held in eary May. The crowded calendar has no ideal time for this major international meet that started in 1926. Two years ago when it was not competing with Worlds or the Olympics, there were World and European records. This time only four championships records were bettered and the cold weather did not help or the absence of the Germans or the British with full teams. However, those that came and were prepared it was a success. None more so than the 9 golds won by Ukraine, for their best international showing ever. Malia Metella and Laure Manaudou helped France to a strong showing with 15 medals (5-7-3) and the Italians with 14 (5-2-7). Next issue we will cover the respective Olympic trials for Canada and the United States. Followed by coverage from the Olympics in the subsequent issue. SWIMNEWS MAY-JUNE 2004 CANADIAN LONG COURSE RECORDS Date Meet Citv INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR 7/1-8 CaribbeanChampionships Kingston JAM 50 7/8-11 Hungarian Championships Budapest HUN 50 7/14-18 National Championships Stockholm SWE 50 7/2-4 National Championships Pardubice CZE 50 7/3-4 National Championships Banska Bystrica SVK 50 7/6-9 Chief of Navy Cup Nationals Asan KOR 50 7/8-11 Open National Championships Rijeka CRO 50 7/15-18 European Junior Championships Lisbon POR 50 7/22-25 Open Championships Kranj SLO 50 8/14-21 OLYMPIC GAMES Athens GRE 50 9/14-19 Paralympic Games Athens GRE 50 10/7-11 FINA World SC Championships Indianapolis USA 25 11/19-21 2005 FINA World Cup 1 Durban RSA 25 11/26-28 2005 FINA World Cup 2 Melbourne AUS 25 12/2-3 2005 FINA World Cup 3 Daejeon KOR 25 12/9-12 European SC Championships Vienna AUT 25 2005 1/18-19 2005 FINA World Cup 4 Stockholm SWE 25 1/22-23 2005 FINA World Cup 5 Berlin GER 25 1/26-2/ 2005 FINAWorld,Cup6 Moscow RUS 25 2/11-2 2005 FINA World Cup 7 New York USA 25 2/18-20 2005 FINA World Cup 8 Rio de Janeiro BRA 25 UNITED STATES CALENDAR 7/7-14 US Olympic Trials Long Beach CA 50 7/21-24 Central Summer Speedo Series Wichita KS 50 7/21-25 Southern Summer Speedo Series Fort Lauderdale FL 50 7/22-25 Western Summer Speedo Series Clovis CA 50 7/22-25 Eastern Summer Speedo Series Buffalo NT 50 7/22-25 Central Summer Speedo Series Minneapolis MN 50 7/22-25 Southern Summer Speedo Series Auburn AL 50 7/28-1 Central Summer Speedo Series Indianapolis IN 50 7/29-1 Southern Summer Speedo Series A i icti n TX 50 8/3-7 US Summer Nationals Palo Alto CA 50 8/3-8 Southern Zone Championships Fort Lauderdale FL 50 8/5-8 Central Zone Championships 2 Topeka KS 50 8/6-9 Central Zone Championships 1 Oxford OH 50 8/10-14 Western Summer Speedo Series Federal Way WA 50 8/10-14 Western Zone Championships Redding CA 50 8/11-14 Eastern Zone Championships Buffalo INY CA 12/2-4 US Open San Antonio TV I A <;o CANADIAN CALENDAR 7/1-4 Man/Sask Championships Winnipeg MR cn 7/2-4 East Coast Championships Stjohns's INT CO 7/6-10 Olympic Swimming Trials Toronto ON 50 7/15-18 BC Open Championships Victoria BC 50 7/16-18 Quebec Age Group Championships St-Jean QC 50 7/22-25 Eastern Canada Cup Montreal QC 50 8/5-8 Canadian Club Nationals Winnipeg MB 50 MEN'S EVENTS 50 free 22.80 Matthew Rose.TRENT Santo DomingoAug 15,2003 1 00 frpp 4Q c.3 Brent Hayden, UBCD Yokohama,Aug 28,2002 ^00 frpp uUu 11CC 1:48.26 RickSay.UCSA Yokohama,Aug 26,2002 400 free 3:49.99 Rick Say.IS Montreal.May 28,2000 800 free 7:58.63 V* ■ .-i '• . \ '[,■.■ 1 . n/"\tv7 Kurds MacGillivary.KOw Victoriajun 28,2003 1 500 frpp 1 ,)\J\J 1 ICC 15-1 1.JO Kurtis MacGillrvary.KOW Sydney.Mar 30,2004 50 back 25.73 Riley Janes.ESWIM Victoria,Aug 10.2002 100 back 53-98 Mark lewksbury.UCSL Barcelonajul.30,1992 700 hark i.jy. i j Keith Beavers.ROW Indianapolis j\pr 2.2003 50 breast 28.22 Morgan Knabe.UCSC Victoriajun 27,2003 100 breast 1:00.70 Morgan Knaue,UCoL Victoriajun 30,2003 700 hrpast 2:12.74 Morgan Knabe.UCSC Victoriajun 28,2003 50 fly 23.97 Michael Mintenko, UBCD BarcelonaJul 20,2003 100 flv l\J\J 11 V Micnael Mmtenko.UBlD Minneapolis.Dec 6,2002 ?oo flv L,\j\j uy 1 . JO.KJO Shamek Pietucha,UCSC Montreal.May 30,2000 ^00 IM ~i\J\J 11V1 7 00 38 ii.UU. JO Lurtis Myaen.ULSC \T_.., \7^».K T. .1.. 9 1 1 aao New Yorkjuly 31,1998 400 IM 4-K 33 t.i J.jj Curtis Myden,CAN SydneySep 17,2000 I\Clay 1CCU1UO 4x100 MR 3:37.94 World Championship Team BarcelonaJul 27,2003 Janes, Knabe, Mintenko, Hayden 4x100 FR 3:16.83 World Championship Team D , .- - 1 ,- , Inl 1A 1AA2 BarcelonaJul zl),zUUj Lupien, Janes, Mintenko, Hayden 4x200 FR 7:17.17 Commonwealth Team Manchester,Aug 1,2002 Say, Johns, Johnston, Mintenko WOMEN'S EVENTS 50 free 25.78 Laura Nicnolls.KOW \Jn\rs-.\*s\ms-. An™ T7 OAAO Yokanama,Aug l/,lwl 100 free 55.69 T a,ih NTInU^ll/. DAW/ Laura Nicnolls.KOW \ 1 , ■ i- 1 1 Tun 2A TAA1 Montrealjun ju.zuui 200 free 1:59-85 Marianne Limpert.PDSA SydneySep 20,2000 400 free 4:09.34 Brittany Reimer.SKSC BarcelonaJul 20,2003 800 free 8:28.73 Brittany Reimer.SKSC BarcelonaJul 2o,2003 1500 free 16:15.98 Brittany Reimer.SKSC BarcelonaJul 22,2003 50 back 28.65 Jennifer Carroll.MEGO BarcelonaJul 25,2003 100 back 1:02.14 Kelly Stetanyshyn.PDSA Winnipeg.Aug.4, 1999 200 back 2:11.16 Jennifer Fratesi.ROW rukuokajul zo.ZUUl 50 breast 31.73 Rhiannon Leier.MM Calgary,Mar,8,2003 100 breast 1:08.66 Lauren Van Oosten.NRST Tv__j.ll i „ „ 19 1 AAO Perthjan.13,1998 200 breast 2:27.27 Allison Higson.EPS Montreal.May 29,1988 50 fly 27.17 Shona Kitson.OSC Winnipeg,4 Aug i\)w 100 fly 59-68 Jennifer Button.ROW Yokohama^ug 25,2002 200 fly 2:09.64 Jessica Deglau.PDSA Winnipeg,Aug.7,1999 200 IM 2:13.44 Marianne Limpert.PDSA SydneySep 19,2000 400 IM. 4:38.46 Joanne Malar.UCSC Winnipeg^ug.2,1999 Relay records 4x100 MR 4:05.69 Pan Pacific Team Yokohama^ug 29,2002 Gammel, Leier, Button, Nicholls 4x100 FR 3:42.92 Olympic Team SydneySep 16,2000 Limpert, Shakespeare, Nicholls, Deglau 4x200 FR 8:02.65 Olympic Team SydneySep 20,2000 Limpert, Shakespeare, Malar, Deglau SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 5 2000 OLYMPIC TRIALS Montreal May 28-Jun 4 (50 m) MEN 50 METRES FREESTYLE 1 22.95 Lupien Yannick.20,UL 2 23.01 Hutchison Craig.25.PCSC 3 23.27 Rose Matthew,18,TRENT 4 23.37 Kindler Thomas, 19.PP0 100 METRES FREESTYLE 1 50.14 Hutchison Craig.25.PCSC 2 50.63 Lupien Yannick,20,UL 3 51.00 Say Rtck.21.IS 4 51.03 Taylor Robbie,19,COBRA 5 51.34 Pulle Garret,22,UCSC 6 51.40 Smerdon Kyle,20,TO 200 METRES FREESTYLE 1 1:49.19 Say Rick,21,IS 2 1:50.34 Johns Brian.1 7.RAPID 3 1:50.79 Johnston Mark,20,PDSA 4 1:51.04 Lupien Yannick,20,UL 5 1:51.09 Mintenko Michael,24,PDSA 6 1:52.36 McWha Michael,23,0SC 400 METRES FREESTYLE 1 3:49.99 Say Rick.21.IS 2 3:51.71 Johnston Mark,20,PDSA 3 3:52.23 Hurd Andrew,17,MSSAC-T0 4 3:55.21 Johns Brian.1 7.RAPID 1500 METRES FREESTYLE 1 15:12.70 HurdAndrew,17,MSSAC-TO 2 15:34.53 Say Rick,21 .IS 3 15:37.05 Peterson Tim,21,PDSA 4 15:37.26 McWha Michael,23,0SC 100 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 55.88 Renaud Chris,23,UCSC 2 56.39 Versfeld Mark,23,PDSA 3 56.46 Hersee Dustin,24,PDSA 4 56.54 Sepulis Sean,23,R0W 200 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 2:00.96 Hersee Dustin,24,PDSA 2 2:01.07 Renaud Chris,23,UCSC 3 2:02.01 Versfeld Mark.23.PDSA 4 2:02.81 Hamm Greg,23,PDSA 100 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 1:02.13 Knabe Morgan.19,UCSC 2 1:03.23 Huang Marthew,16,PDSA 3 1:03.42 Hunter Jason,20,NRST 4 1:03.73 StamhuisJohn.21.IS 200 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 2:15.16 Knabe Morgan,19,UCSC 2 2:16.56 Boulianne Michet.21.CAM0 3 2:17.10 StamhuisJohn,21,IS 4 2:17.88 Huang Matthew,16,PDSA 100 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 53.45 Mintenko Michael,24,PDSA 2 53.97 Pietucha Shamek.23.UCSC 3 54.78 CarscaltenGavin.21.CASC 4 54.81 Sood Collin,26,UCSC 200 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 1:59.79 Pietucha Shamek,23,UCSC 2 2:00.02 SiouiAdam.18.TD 3 2:01.21 Browne Douglas,21, ROW 4 2:01.83 Wake Doug,23,PDSA 200 METRES IND. MEDLEY 1 2:01.20 Myden Curtis,26,UCSC 2 2:02.80 Johns Brian,1 7.RAPID 3 2:05.28 SayaoChuck,17,MSSAC-TO 4 2:06.11 Melton Joe,21,UCSC 400 METRES IND.MEOLEY 1 4:20.57 Von Richter Owen,25,ESWIM 2 4:23.02 Sayao Chuck.1 7.MSSAC-T0 3 4:25.81 Beavers Keith.1 7.STARS 4 4:27.05 Melton Joe.21.UCSC 2004 CANADIAN OLYMPIC TEAM PREVIEW TOUGHER STANDARDS FOR ATHENS After 39 swimmers in Sydney, 2004 could be smallest team in three decades Nikki Dryden It may not be a good idea for these swimmers to rush out and get tattooed with the Olympic rings j ust yet, but for at least a few more weeks, they make up the first eight swimmers on the Canadian Olympic Team heading to Athens this summer. Keith Beavers, Mike Brown, Brian Johns, Morgan Knabe, and Mike Mintenko are joined by women Jennifer Fratesi, Rhiannon Leier, and Brittany Reimer to be the first swimmers to post times under Swimming/Natation Canada's tough standards for Athens. The times are equivalent to the 12th-fastest time in the world and swimmers are able to qualify for the Olympics by swimming under the time standard at either last summer's World Champs or at Olympic Trials this July. Eight swimmers swam under those times at last summer's World Championships in Barcelona and put themselves in a pre-qualifying situation. However, they could be bumped off the team if one thing happens: their times from Worlds are beaten by two different swimmers at the Olympic Trials. For example, for Brittany Reimer to be bumped from her spot on the Olympic team in the 400 or 800 free, two women would have to go faster than her times of 4:0934 and 8:28.73. The team so far is divided in half, with four returning Olympians (Johns, Knabe, Mintenko and Leier) and four rookies who will represent Canada in their first Olympic Games. Brittany Reimer ' There is not much more that can I be said about Brittany these days. She is the star of the Canadian -^Sr^ team' swimmm§ to seven best times, five Canadian records, and a 4th, 5th, and 6th-place finish in the 800, 400, and 1500 free at last summer's Worlds. How did this breakthrough happen?As she says, it's all about her work ethic. "I am a really hard trainer. I always push myself to go faster and I j ust have the urge to go fast all the time. " Her coach Cory Beatt echoes this philosophy. "Since Brittany was 10, she has always been an excellent competitor. She loves to race and the game of racing. Whether the swim is 50 or 1500, she always puts in a lot of heart." And what does it mean for Brittany to represent Canada at the Olympic Games? "It will mean a lot to me because I have been waiting all my life and training all my life for this. It's basically what any swimmer dreams of, so I'm very happy that it is me in this position and not anyone else. I am not saying anyone else doesn't deserve it as much as me, though. But I 've always dreamed since I have been little about going to the Olympics!" Swimming under the qualifying standards last summer has enabled Brittany to shift her focus from just trying to qualify to actually preparingfortheOlympics themselves. "I wouldsay that it is definitely a relief (to have already made the team), because you get to train all year long for the one main event and it enables you to prepare longer. " That training will be basically unchanged from her regimen prior to Worlds last summer, when she made a bold splash on the international scene. "My preparation will probably be around the same (as Worlds), but not too much the same because I want the times to be different. I want go into the Games with the same mindset that 'it's all a game.' " However, the biggest challenge about competing in the Olympics for Brittany will be the public expectation, "But I don't mind," she says, "Because I work well underpressure." Brian Johns Brian Johns is the most recent Canadian to swim to a world record, breaking the 400 IM short-course world record last year at the CIS Champs. Hepicked ~~ up 7th and 8th place finishes at Worlds last summer after badly cutting his leg in the surf at an early summer training camp in Hawaii. BJ was hungry to break through last year and will be even more so in Athens. "In the 400 IM especially, there is always room to improve technically; I would not be an IMer if I specialized in another stroke," he said 1 ast year. " I need to work on getting my endurance up a bit. I have a toughness, but I need endurance for the last 100, and my breaststroke is the weakest part of my IM, so I am working on that too." "BJ needs to work on the rhythm of his swimming to be able to distribute his efforts better over the long course 50s," said his coach Tom Johnson, speaking lastyear. "Brian is aswimmerwho likes to train hard, and he is working at becomingconsistent in his day-to-day routines and at being able to train at the appropriate levels week in and week out. He is still increasing his workloads and I would say that there is still some room to increase his intensity and his endurance as it relates to world levels." If BJ has instituted those changes, he could finally have the leap forward he's been hungering for over the last several years. Morgan Knabe Morgan Knabe, with his tattoos and piercings, is the so- called "bad boy" of Canadian swimming. But his bad-boy ways have turned into a more mature, hard-working, and consistent swimmer who is always one of the top breaststrokers in the world. He finished the 100 breast at Worlds in fifth spot, the same place he was in Sydney, but faster than ever. Knabe was the top male swimmer for the Canadians at Worlds and is always the wildcard who could pull it out when it really counts. Rhiannon Leier Rhiannon Leier may not be one of the biggest names on the Canadian Team, but she should be. For the last four vears, she SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 has dominated the breast events in Canada, and last summer she was a finalist in the 100 breast at the World Champs. When she broke through in 2000 at the age of 23, she was billed as a later bloomer and had this to " say about her improvement. "I used to focus on the outcome of the race instead of what it took to reach that goal. Now I focus completely on the process and my strategy in the race. I feel this really helps, especially when it comes to controlling my nerves before the race." Today, as a veteran of the Games, Rhiannon faces different obstacles. "Since going to Sydney, I have had much more international racing experience and I feel that I now know more about what to expect. After racing my international competitors on many occasions, I know how fast the field is and how fast I need to train to be at the top level. The biggest challenge for me while competing in Athens would be my ability to stay focused on my goals and to stay confident throughout the event. There are many distractions at an Olympics and my plan is to try to block out anything that takes me away from swimming fast." Rhiannon also has different goals this year. "When I trained in 2000, my goal was j ust to make the Olympics. My goal for 2004 is to win at the Olympics, so I have a different frame of mind." Despite repeating her Olympian feats, she is still proud of her accomplishments. "It is a great honour to represent Canada at the Olympics and something that I always dreamed of, growing up swimming in Canada. To be able to experience an Olympics twice in my life is such an amazing feeling and I feel very proud to be part of the team." While it may be second nature to her, making the team early is comforting. "It is a bit of a relief knowing that I made the team. I think it helps my training because I am training not just to make the team, but to do well at the event. Having an idea that I likely will be going also makes it easier for me to plan my training for the year." Keith Beavers Last summer in Barcelona, Keith Beavers wanted to go a 1:57 and break into the top five at the World Champs in order to position himself for a medal this summer in Athens. That was his goal at the start of the season, and every race last year, he said, was an opportunity to improve for the big race in Athens. "I am a much different swimmer than I was last year (in 2002). I am more mature in terms of how I prepare for races. Now I go through every step of a race exactly so I don't mess it up." Despite missing the finals at Worlds, Keith did finish 14th in a time that pre-qualified him for Athens, and he remains on track. At the Canadian Open Championships in December, he just missed the Canadian record in the 200 back short course, winning gold with a 1:54.67. Keith was thrust into the international spotlight two summers ago at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, where he qualified for the 200 back final in lane four. It was his first international meet and he faded to eighth after leading at the mid-point. That race taught Keith many lessons. "I learned that you need to do everything you normally do. I did everything u , I listened to the wrong kind of music, I got to the rea iy i the wrong time, and I was just totally out of it. That whole day I kept thinking about what the outcome would be if I won and had a gold medal. I wanted to win so badly that I forgot about the race, and I went out way too hard and died." These days Keith thinks about his race strategy, not the outcome. "Now, I concentrate on my position in the first 100 because I know I am as fast as anyone in the world in the second 100. Now, I only think about the race." Mike Mintenko Even though it will be his second Olympics, Mike Mintenko is still proud and still focused on ir%£7 T%f* -' swimming fast. "To represent Canadameanseverything. I have been at the top of the world for a while in my event, consistently performing at a solid world level, and I only have one year left to realize my dream. I want to be able to walk away from this sport with one single moment that I can be proud of for the rest of my life." Mike is another one of those "late bloomers" who found success as a mature athlete after hanging up his hockey skates. "My swimming has definitely improved since my move to Vancouver," said Mike four years ago. "The environment here is so much better. At (UNLV-University of Nevada at Las Vegas) there was such a wide variety of talent on my team, everyone had specific but different goals. Here in Vancouver, everyone is focusing on the same goal-to make the Olympic Team. My training here is much more consistent. I am more fit from more workouts and my coaches here do a lot of work on technique, which I think is very important." Mike is as supportive of his teammates in Vancouver as he is of his national teammates' potential this summer. "The focus of the Canadian Team will surely be on Brian and Morgan and Brittany, and let us not forget, good old Malar! So the expectation will not be on me, and it will allow me to come in and sneak up on a few world swimmers!" Aside from being engaged to American superstar Lindsay Benko, Tank has been progressing steadily over the last five years to become one of the world's top sprint flyers. At Worlds, he narrowly missed two finals and returned home with two 9th- place finishes and a desire for more. "I have been fortunate to have experienced many of the big finals in the last four years. This year is another chance for me to come in as an underdog just as I did 2000. This is also a good chance to do what I need to do, slipping under the radar screen." Like the other swimmers who have pre-qualified, Mike likes the idea of being able to prepare specifically for the Olympics. "Making the Games early is a great chance to focus on the one week in August rather than adding another one in July. For myself, being able to relax through that time period will allow me to keep working on my prep for the Games. I am sure that I will be ready to swim fast at Trials, but it's not a hit or miss situation. The Games are so close that the focus is still high no matter what." Mike is determined not to lose focus of his goals, despite the many trials and tribulations that come with the biggest meet in the world. "I am not worried about the Games' challenges. WOMEN 50 METRES FREESTYLE 1 26.06 Nicholls Laura,21 .ROW ? 2613 Limpert Marianne,27,POSA 3 26.22 Rolland Nadine,25,CAMO - 2635 Shakespeare Shannon,23,MM 100 METRES FREESTYLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 56.31 Limpert Marianne,27,PDSA 56.49 Nicholls Laura,21, ROW 56.56 Shakespeare Shannon,23,MM 56.83 Taylor Tara,18,HYACK 57.04 Lys Alexandra^ 5.UCSC 570? Pn.lt >yv* " -•, 200METnE&rnEfc8TYLE 1 2:00.88 Deglau Jessica,20,PDSA 2 2:01.01 Nicholls Laura,21, ROW 3 2:01.83 Shakespeare Shannon,23,MM 4 2:02.35 Button Jennifer,22,ROW 5 2:03.08 Ebert Tamee,17,PDSA 6 2:03.12 Brambley Kate,21,PDSA 400 METRES FREESTYLE 1 4:14.47 Legault Karine,21 ,PP0 2 4:16.48 Ebert Tamee,17,PDSA 3 4:16.99 Beavers Lindsay,19,STARS 4 4:18.93 Brambley Kate,21,PDSA 800 METRES FREESTYLE 1 8:39.21 Legault Kartne.21.PP0 2 8:42.94 Beavers Lindsay,19,STARS 3 8:48.08 Ebert Tamee.17.PDSA 4 8:54.08 Burgoyne Carrie,18,UCSC 100 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 1:02.66 Stefanyshyn Kelly.1 7.PDSA 2 1:02.89 Lischinsky Michelle,24,MANTA 3 1:03.12 Gammel Erin,20,KCS 4 1:03.72 Wyclirfe Elizabeth.1 7.EBSC 200 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 2:13.56 Stefanyshyn Kelly.1 7.PDSA 2 2:14.90 Fratesi Jennifer,16,R0W 3 2:16.44 Malar Joanne,24,UCSC 4 2:17.08 Warden Elizabeth,22,TO 100 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 1:09.71 LeierRhiannon,22,MANTA 2 1:09.97 PetelskiChristin.22.IS 3 1:10.26 Cameron Kristy,18,UCSC 4 1:11.04 Noddle Jennifer,20,ESWIM 200 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 2:29.91 Petelski Christin,22,IS 2 2:32.62 PierseAnnamay.16.EKSC 3 2:32.93 Cameron Kristy,18,UCSC 4 2:33.31 Leier Rhiannon,22,MANTA 100 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 1:01.01 Button Jenniler.22.R0W 2 1:01.22 Chewier Karine,22,CAMO 3 1:01.22 Lacroix Audrey,16,CAM0 4 1:01.23 Deglau Jessica.20.PDSA 200 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 2:11.85 Deglau Jessica.20,PDSA 2 2:12.25 Button Jennifer 22.R0W 3 2:14.68 Hunks Tanya.19,BRANT 4 2:15.52 Lacroix Audrey, 1 6, CAMO 200 METRES INO. MEDLEY 1 2:14.38 Malar Joanne,24,UCSC 2 2:14.63 Limpert Marianne,27,PDSA 3 2:17.41 Cameron Kristy,18,UCSC 4 2:17.69 Doody Kelly,20.PDSA 400 METRES IND. MEDLEY 1 4:42.72 Malar Joanne,24,UCSC 2 4:50.22 Doody Kelly,20,PDSA 3 4:5176 Durand Dena,19.BR0CK 4 4:53.04 Burgoyne Carrie,18,UCSC SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 7 The Games are so big and so distracting that, if you don't get a little selfish in your preparation, you can get lost in the shuffle. There's no bus breakdown or late wake-up call that's going to affect my Olympics. 1 will be ready to face the 10 to 12 guys I need to face come August 16th!" Jennifer Fratesi In 2000, Jennifer Fratesi was on the verge of making it big. As the season progressed, she looked poised to make the Olympic Team, but just missed qualifying in the 200 back. That near miss fueled Jennifer's rise to the top, and less than six months after the Olympics ended in Sydney, Jen had her chance to race in the Olympic Pool at the Pan Pac Junior Champs. She did not disappoint, winning the 200 back and smashing the Canadian record. She lowered her record several months later enroute to a fourth-place spot at the 2001 World Champs. Things were quietfor Fratesi forseveral years until she returned last summer to pick up a 6th-place finish at Worlds and earn a preliminary ticket to Athens. Jen has the ability to step up to the challenge and swim best times at top meets. If she holds onto her spot for Athens, she could be a hit this summer. Mike Brown Mike Brown was the "™ Canadian star of the 2002 Commonwealth Games, when, at just 18, he lowered his best time by over two seconds to win a bronze in the 200 breast. His time was just off the Canadian record, but Brown was all smiles. "I would have liked the record, but I'll take a 2:13.8 any day," he said. "My goal coming into that meet was to final, but after the 100, 1 had a bit more confidence. I knew it would be a lot harder race (at night), but I did have a medal at the back of my mind. " Almost two years later, Mike is looking forward to Athens. "It's kind of a relief knowing that I have gone under the standard already, but I'm not really doing anything specific yet (to get ready). I am just getting mentally prepared for the different elements." Brown 's record swim from 2002 was reclaimed by Morgan Knabe last summer, so if nothing else, Mike will be looking to get it back again at Trials. Brown is now a student at the University of Minnesota and after his seventh-place finish in the 200 breast at Worlds, Mike is certainly continuing the legacy of great Canadian breaststrokers. Making the Olympics is the high point so far. "It means a lot to me to be able to make my dream and represent my country at the Olympics," says Mike, adding with asmile that his biggest challenge will be out of the water. "I've been told that McDonalds was very accessible in 2000, so keeping away from that will be challenging." In 2002, after Canada's sub-par performance at the Commonwealth Games, Dave Johnson, national coach and director of high performance of SNC, said that only world-class swimmers would be going to Athens. "We are going to raise the bar. The selection criteria is going to be a lot more difficult, probably the FINA 'A' times," saidjohnson at that time. "If only 10 people make it, that's fine, but I think they'll lift themselves up." With eight swimmers already on the team, it looks like Canada's swimmers are rising to the challenge, and this summer in Toronto will be the last chance to see which swimmers will join these elite eight on the pool deck in Athens. CANADIAN OLYMPIC SELECTION CRITERIA FINA A AND B QUALIFYING TIME STANDARDS Olympic Games 2004, Athens (GRE) CANADIAN PERSONALITY: THE OLYMPIC DREAM Hard work and belief made it happen Jeff Grace eima riiNM EIM A MIMA tanauian A M O Entrioc E - < 2UU tly A -CO CO 1.00. 00 o.n^ cc 2.U4.00 1.D/.49 200 im 2:02.54 2:08.67 2:01.81 400 im 4:20.17 4:33.18 4:18.63 4x100 medley 3:41.37 3:37.53 4x100 free 3:21.48 3:17.85 4x200 free 7:24.83 7:20.60 WOMEN A - 2 Entries B - 1 Entry 50 free 25.64 26.92 25.52 100 free 55.58 58.36 55.46 200 free 2:00.07 2:06.07 1:59.50 400 free 4:11.60 4:24.18 4:10.78 800 free 8:36.94 9:02.79 8:35.56 100 back 1:02.42 1:05.54 1:01.80 200 back 2:13.58 2:20.26 2:12.44 100 breast 1:09.85 1:13.34 1:09.52 200 breast 2:28.21 2:35.62 2:27.13 100 fly 59.67 1:02.65 59.30 200 fly 2:11.20 2:17.76 2:10.58 200 im 2:15.27 2:22.03 2:14.71 400 im 4:46.42 5:00.74 4:45.65 4x100 medley 4:10.05 4:05.69 4x100 free 3:46.69 3:42.16 4x200 free 8:09.59 8:02.97 The Dream Alex Bauman touches the wall in the 400 IM with a convincing win, raising his body halfway out of the pool in sheer joy and exhilaration. Victor Davis comes storming down the pool in the last 50metres of the 200 breaststroke with the intensity of a wild animal after its prey, to finish with an Olympic and World Record. Anne Ottenbrite wins an Olympic gold for Canada in the women's 200 breast, a race that many thought two months earlier she might not be able to swim due to a knee injur}'. All of these events have two things in common: First, they were momentsof brilliance for the Canadian national swimming team at the 1984 Olympics, and second, they were the swims that inspired a generation of young children to turn to theirparents and say "Mom, Dad, I am going to go to the Olympics one day!" One of those children showed in Sydney that it was a good thing that Mom and Dad took her seriously and started her swimming at the Saskatoon Lasers Swim Club. Otherwise, the newest generation of young Canadian swimmers would have one fewer heroes to inspire them. Rhiannon Leier has fast become one of Canada's top international swimmers. When watching her in the water, you can see the power and the intensity that this 27-year-old takes into the pool each time she races. What you can't see is the long journey that this overnight success has taken to reach the top ranks of Canadian swimming. The Start of the Journey ThisnativeofRegina,Saskatchewan, spent the first seven years of her swimming career in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where swimming 8 SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 SwimNews 356 Sumach Street Toronto, Ontario M4X 1V4 CANADA Place in envelope and mail to above address 1 RHIANNON LEIER had many ups and downs. "I remember I had a really good coach when I first started, who played a huge part in me becoming a breaststroker. Then there was a time when I was about 12 when there was a lot of pressure put on me and I actually stopped swimming for a year." Rhiannon came back after that year and regained her love for swimming, eventually qualifying for her first national championships at 14 years of age. At 15, her family moved to Winnipeg, where she swam with the Manitoba Marlins for the next three years until she left on a scholarship to the tropical confines of the University of Miami. "I decided to attend Miami for many reasons. I had grown up living in the prairies all of my life and I wanted to go somewhere warm. Also, to be given the opportunity to have my school paid for and to be part of a college team because of the years of hard work I had put into swimming was a definite reward." The Miami Years When leaving for school in the United States, many young swimmers have expectations of the perfect situation where they will get to go to school for free and have amazing swimming success. For some, this is true; for others, it is not. In Leier's case, she drew on the experiences of many of her older teammates from the Manitoba Marlins. "There were a lot of swimmers from Winnipeg who were down in the States for school. Before that point I didn'teven really realize that the opportunity was there." While at Miami, Rhiannon learned many lessons that have helped her not only on her journey to swimming success, but also in life. "I learned a lot more about racing. Racing when you feel good and racingwhen you are not atyourbest. Almost every weekend we had a dual meet." "I also learned a lot about myself. By moving away and living on my own, I was able to discover who I was. I became more confident in my swimming abilities and myself. I was one of the better swimmers on the team and it was great to be needed and be important to the team." into physiotherapy school. Fortunately for Canadian swimming fans, she was approached by Vlastimil Cerny, Head Coach of the Manitoba National Swim Centre. "Vlastimil spoke to me before my last year at school and told me that he believed I could make the team. I had never heard that from anyone before, and hearing that from him made me believe that I had a chance." QUICK FACTS: LEIER, Rhiannon, CAN BIRTHDAY 30 MAY 1977 PLACE Regina, SK HEIGHT /WEIGHT 172 cm /68 kg EDUCATION Univ.of Miami 1999 OCCUPATION Full-time swimmer REPRESENTS Manitoba Marlins COACH Vlastimil Cerny • 2003 Worlds 14th 50 breast, 8th 100 breast, 16th 200 breast • 2002 Pan Pacs 6th 100 breast, 8th 200 breast • 2002 Commonwealths 5th 50-100 breast, 6th 200 breast • 2001 Worlds 19th 50 breast, 8th 100 breast • 2000 Olympics 11th 100 breast LONG COURSE PROGRESSION Making a Dream Come True Once she finished at the University of Miami, graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Health Science, Rhiannon had plans to retire from swimming and go Year 50 breast 100 breast 200 breast Age 2004 32.49 1 09.14 2:32.24 27 2003 31.73 1 09.25 2:30.71 26 2002 32.11 1 09.46 2:31.33 25 2001 32.34 1 09.40 2:32.06 24 2000 32.09 1 09.63 2:32.33 23 1999 33.41 1 11.61 2:37.25 22 1998 33.25 1 11.76 2:39.82 21 1997 1 12.53 2:39.22 20 1996 33.86 1 12.72 2:38.61 19 1995 1 12.18 2:39.41 18 1994 33.64 1 13.44 2:43.51 17 1993 1 14.13 2:43.41 16 1992 1 16.34 2:44.79 15 The confidence that Cerny so wisely placed in Leier was well directed when Rhiannon did make the Olympic Team in 2000, taking the Canadian swimming world by surprise. "I worked a lot harder than I ever had before and because of all the work that I had done I improved substantially as the year went on. I became more confident that I could be at that level. That was a huge change for me. Before that, I didn't believe I was good enough to make the team. It was the hard work and belief that made it happen." The Journey Continues After Leier accomplished her dream of being an Olympian like Davis and Bauman, what has kept her going for the last four years? "I decided to attend a few World Cups in 2000 and 2001, and was surprised when I set a national record. I came to the realization that I was capable of a lot more and decided to commit to the next quadrennial, to not only attend but perform well at the next Olympics, and four years later, here 1 am." Leading up to Athens, Leier has been experiencing some of the best training of her life, with a weekly schedule of approximately 18 hours in the pool and 5 hours of dryland per week. "My training has been fantastic. I have been faster than ever." To help her take the next step in her racing so that her next set of goals can be realized, Leier has been taking the time to develop her ability to focus and control her nerves before her races. "In the past, I have been too nervous, but I have now learned to focus more and that has helped me both in training and racing. I have worked with a sports psychologist and Vlastimil, practicing relaxation and the ability to focus in the moment. It has been astruggle, itdefinitely hasn't been easy and it doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen more consistently now." When sitting and talking to Leier, one finds it hard to believe that this six- time All American and three-time academic All American ever lacked confidence. The journey that Leier has taken since being inspired by the 1 984 Olympics to realizing her own Olympic dreams is one that has been accomplished by the actions of a champion, with commitment, hard work, and belief in her abilities. In Athens, there willbemanyyoungchildrenwiththeireyes focused on the TV waiting to be inspired and there could be no one better person to create that inspiration than a prairie girl who is continuing to realize her own Olympic dream. SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 9 TINY OLYMPIC PROSPECTS 2004 TOP PARTICIPANTS Club Name Code Prov Boys Girls Total Canadian Dolphin SC CDSC BC 15 10 25 Edmonton Keyano SC EKSC AB 11 19 30 Guelph Marlins AC GMAC ON 9 18 27 Hamilton Aquatic Club HAC ON - 1 1 London Aquatic Club LAC ON 7 15 22 Langley Olympians LOSC BC 12 18 30 Newmarket Stingrays NEW ON 21 22 43 Olympian Swim Club OSC AB 5 10 15 Pointe Claire Swim Club PCSC QC 30 52 82 Pacilic Coast Swimming PSC BC 8 28 36 Patana Tiger Sharks PTS THA 62 53 115 Richmond Rapids Swim Club RAPID BC 14 6 20 Surrey Knights SC SKSC BC 4 8 12 Torpedo Swimming TSWIM AB 0 1 1 Uxbridge Swim Club USC ON 5 9 14 Winskill Dolphin Swim Club WDSC BC 20 11 31 Whitehorse Glacier Bears WGB YK 0 1 1 TOTALS 223 282 505 BOYS EVENTS 5) 8:31 19 Beaudoin Samuel.EKSC 8:36.54 9:33.74 6) 8:36.30 Gubiani David.PCSC - 8:56.76 BOYS 7&U - 200 FREESTYLE 7) 8:46 90 Moloney Ryan.LOSC 8:53.57 Rec: 2:50.36 Joshua Hammervold,UCSC,97 April January 8) 8:59.97 Godley Brandon.OSC - 9 06 49 D 31920 Takahashi Andrew.SKSC 3:19.20 9) 9:0515 Krelkowski Martin.PCSC 9:38.89 2) 3:19.55 Zhou Evan.CDSC 3:38.13 3:28.80 10) 9 07 52 Ferraro Milchel.USC 3) 3 32 70 Assi Sherifl.PCSC 3:42.85 4:01.75 11) 9 0784 McGregor Travis.PCSC 9:47.04 10 07 75 4) 348 10 Therrien Araya.PCSC 4:03.48 12) 9:22.24 Houghlon Nicolas.USC - 1010.25 5) 4 00.10 Schofield Billy.PTS 4:00.10 4:0010 13) 93792 GosalJaelen.CDSC 9:48.97 916.23 6) 4:05.49 Smutharaks Edward.PTS 4:30.85 5:1910 14) 9:50 74 Gradz Joshua.PCS 9:13.74 9:2076 7) 4 07 73 Okazaki Maxwell.PTS 4:24.40 4:5139 15) 10 04 33 Green Lucas.EKSC 9:12 22 1303 70 8) 4:07 82 Bertrand David.PCSC 4:09.22 4:17.62 16) 10:11.64 Allin Jake.EKSC 9) 4:20 36 Scott Psi.PTS 4:37.70 5:1028 17) 10:2020 VieauHuras Mayson.LAC 10) 4:22 22 Philipon Charles.PTS 4:22.22 4:27 40 18) 10:49 32 Cairns Evan.LOSC 11) 4 25 88 D'Amour Kurt.PCSC 4:41.74 5:00.68 19) 10:58 26 Matheson Beau.WDSC - 10 58 26 12) 4 36 93 Winyard Gregory.PTS 5:01.03 5:42.43 20) 10:59.55 Raymond Alexandre.EKSC - 16:46.38 13) 4:40.82 McSherry George.PTS 5:01.91 5:35.51 21) 11:08.16 DoshiJaimil.EKSC - 11 55 02 14) 4 51 78 Maleenont Peak.PTS 5:11.03 22) 11:14.18 Padlesky Andrew.EKSC 15) 4:58.79 Ratanadaros Gene.PTS 4:58.79 5:58.33 23) 11 53 69 Stade Talon.WDSC 16) 5:03.88 Martone Kenji.PCSC 5:28.58 24) 12:03 20 AcimovicStelan.CDSC 1208.59 17) 511 16 Mansell Chris.PTS 5:23.00 5:2327 25) 12:2070 ParkesJonathan.PCS 18) 51360 Read Bradley.PCSC 26) 14:58 74 Tse Brandon.CDSC 19) 5:1406 LeeGabriel.WDSC 514 06 27) 15:17.64 Burke Aidan.EKSC 20) 5:19.43 Donald Robbie.PTS 28) 15:25 33 Boreen Colton.WDSC - 15.25.33 21) 5:20 08 Jayapurna Ivan.PTS 6:01.17 29) 15:32 26 Mackensie Connors.WDSC 22) 5:22.55 Marinis Vassili.PCSC 6:3197 30) 16:16.24 Donaldson Connor.WDSC 23) 5 42 97 Laroche Jordan.PTS 3D 1645.10 Needham Gavin.EKSC 24) 5:4515 Cattefwelt Anthony.PTS 5:58.24 BOYS 9 ■ 800 FREESTYLE 25) 5 46.21 Candray Randy.EKSC 7:00.41 Rec 102710DougWake.YLSC.86 April January 26) 55533 Farebrother Ben.PTS D 13:10 99 Swanston Jeflrey.NEW - 13:43.40 27) 6:03.52 Haldane Richard.PTS 2) 14:13.05 Roche Brendan.PCSC 14:3885 14:39.97 28) 610.64 Gallacher Cameron.WDSC 7:19.54 3) 14:20.62 Pelosi Anthony.NEW - 14:28.55 29) 6:1545 Reiter Philip.PTS 4) 14:24,36 Shalin Phillip.NEW - 15:02.40 30) 6:19 42 Moss HenryPTS 5) 14 27 69 Burg Mason.SKSC 142769 31) 6:1965 Crablree Lewis.LOSC 6:54.47 6) 14:31.30 Xie Brian.RAPID 32) 6:20.41 Sribhibhadh Aj.PTS 6:21.06 8:33.63 7) 14:47 40 Fung Desmond.RAPID 33) 6:23.01 VonEndeRyan.WDSC 722.50 8) 14 50 90 Zeng Hanson.RAPID 16:04 00 34) 6 23.22 Iwamolo Picco.PTS 6:23.22 6:23.22 9) 15:01.40 Jensen Timolhy.PCSC 15 28 44 16 10.68 35) 6:34 70 Char Jonalhan.CDSC 5:40.00 5:48.66 10) 15:01.40 Siena-Dovali Sebastian.PCSC • 15:26.85 36) 6:35 72 Thamthieng Alan.PTS 11) 15:10.54 PepeleaThomas.PCSC - 1542 47 37) 6:53 06 Whitcrafl Dylan.PTS 12) 15:32 50 Bower Kyle.RAPID 38) 6:55.21 Uppal Jesse.WDSC 7:44.91 13) 15:38.68 Lalleur Jonalhan.PCSC 15:3896 15:58.39 39) 6:55 64 Gavric Daniel.CDSC 7:20.00 6:39.30 14) 16:12.70 CarySam.GMAC 40) 7:04 33 Thomasson Nick.LOSC 70750 15) 1619.90 Ortamdes George.LAC • 17 35 30 41) 7 33.47 Shervernoha Levi.WDSC 9:1801 16) 16:22 40 Fung Calvin.RAPID 42) 7:34 83 MoJoshua.PTS 17) 16:2843 Pieper Thomas.NEW • 16:00.28 43) 8 28.01 Connors Bryce.WDSC 93526 18) 16:29.70 Letkeman Evan.PCS 15 4700 1807.95 44) 8:34 32 Stade Morgan.WDSC 9:42.87 19) 16:30.50 Ward Brenden.PCS 1604 50 20:0922 45) 9:00 84 Bibault Jonathan.EKSC 13:46.59 20) 16:43.03 Kowalski Alexander.NEW - 22:07.68 46) 9:06.21 Lee Samuel.WDSC 13:02.76 21) 16:57.50 Kovacs Matthew.LAC BOYS 8 - 400 FREESTYLE 22) 17:31.15 Healey Ronan.USC - 17:31 15 Rec: 5:22 65 Doug Wake.YLSC.86 April January 23) 17:46 90 Minster Mark.CDSC 1746 90 18:2822 D 717.57 O'Donnell Devin.PCSC 7:5141 817 85 24) 18:16.20 Hong Jack, RAPID 2) 7:24 40 Allen Matthew.GMAC 7:48.75 25) 18:57 40 Harms Joshua.RAPID 22:04.10 21:54.20 3) 7 42 50 Hao Ray.GMAC 7:4253 26) 18:58,60 Zhang Howard.RAPID 19:5090 4) 74395 Lubberding Mackenzie.OSC 8:4391 27) 19 1642 MacPhail Brian.LOSC 20:0604 10 28) 19:28 99 Tiiano Duslin.WDSC 36) 3:29.45 Donald Shey.PTS 29) 19:33.30 BeckRyan.LAC 37) 3:30.34 Thamthieng Alan.PTS 4:49.77 30) 19:4121 Klassen Cole.LOSC 19:46.00 21:28,52 38) 3:3542 Butters Logan.PCSC 327 36 3:58.11 31) 20:00.15 SonnlagJonathan.WDSC • 20:00.15 39) 3:40.35 Whitcrafl Dylan.PTS 32) 20:33 00 Gilmore Hayden.LOSC 40) 3:53.16 MoJoshua.PTS 3:53.16 5:10.87 33) 20:36.02 McAuley Bnan.NEW 41) 3:53.89 Shervernoha Levi.WDSC 41987 34) 20:47 00 Hutchinson Shaun.PCS 42) 4:11.72 Thomasson Nick.LOSC 4 02 08 35) 20:5300 Koziol-NeumannAlexandet.PCS - 43) 412.03 Connors Bryce.WDSC 4:12.03 !6) 25 1632 Uppal PerryWDSC - 25:16.32 44) 4.20 22 Hutchinson Jack.PCS 37) 30 33 52 Prelontaine Keith.WDSC - 31 21.57 45) 4:28,23 Lee Samuel.WDSC 6:00.09 38) 31 57 50 Brown Robbie.LAC 46) 4:33.28 Crablree Lewis.LOSC 3:49,80 BOYS 10 - 1500 FREESTYLE 47) 4:41.43 Stade Morgan.WDSC 5:04.78 Rec: 18:41 93 Michael Calkins,VICO,89 April January 48) 4:56 99 Bibault Jonathan.EKSC 1) 21 5516 Grillo Matthew.PCSC 2321 00 24 15 52 BOYS 8 - 100 IND. MEDLEY 2) 21 59.70 Shramko Michael.RAPID 23:28 40 23:59 80 Rec: 1:21.38 Andrew Bignell.SSMAC.92 April January 3) 22.29 90 Salmon Brayden.LAC - 23:2787 1) 1:4330 Allen Matthew.GMAC 14918 4) 22:4730 Gilmour Mark.LAC - 24:00 30 2) 1 4513 Lubberding Mackenzie.OSC 2:05.32 5) 22:55 36 Peddie Luke.OSC 26 24 14 273693 3) 1:45,27 Okazaki Milchell.PTS 145,27 1 57 75 6) 23:11.97 Zeman Erik.PCSC 26:04 99 26 43 70 4) 1 50 45 O'Donnell Devin.PCSC 1 47 81 2 0147 7) 23:35 34 Blackmore Ryan.OSC 24:3686 25:1318 5) 1:51.70 Hao Ray.GMAC 2.03 43 8) 23:38 58 Lessard Charles.PCSC 26:04.55 6) 1:55 23 Vieau Huras Mayson.LAC 2:09 70 9) 23 51 00 Cooke Landon.EKSC 7) 1:57,41 Smiley Francis.PTS 1:57.41 2:01.84 10) 23:58 75 Jamieson Colin, PCSC 2501.93 26.22.25 8) 1 58,33 Gubiani David.PCSC 2:10.88 11) 24 09 49 Sura Conner.PCSC 2347 53 24 27.21 9) 2 00 68 Godley Brandon.OSC 2:04 86 12) 24 4611 Broderick Evan.SKSC 24:4611 10) 2:01 58 Fitzsimmons Sam.PTS 2:01.58 2:07.88 13) 24 47.84 Williams Mac.OSC 25:27 04 26:22.27 11) 2:02 79 Raymond Alexandre.EKSC - 14) 26:02,48 Gilmartin Eric.PCSC 28:02 04 30:04 53 12) 2:03 86 Snidvongs Jeen PTS 2:15.18 2:15.18 15) 26:03 03 Manny Frederic.PCSC 27:12.80 13) 2:05 36 Harding Matthies.PTS 2:1134 2:11.34 16) 2622 31 GanWil.PTS 26:22 31 28:5553 14) 2:09 87 Cohen David.PTS 212 77 2:2498 17) 27:51 77 Kingston Cameron.NEW 15) 2:1045 Kretkowski Martin.PCSC 2:30,29 18) 27 51 81 Karnakov Michael.NEW 16) 2:14.26 McGregor TravisPCSC 2:33.34 2:35,63 19) 2753 80 Kukovica Jacob.GMAC 17) 214 90 Baird Tadek.GMAC 2 31 61 20) 275703 Edling Cameron.NEW 18) 2:15 22 Moloney Ryan.LOSC 2:23.00 2:16,51 21) 28:06,90 Moltatt Hayden.GMAC 19) 217 24 Houghlon Nicolas.USC 24194 22) 28 21 72 Fyle Tyler.NEW • 30:20 90 20) 2:17 89 McSherry Max.PTS 2:18.41 2:22 29 23) 28:25,60 Fyle Conner.NEW - 29:4850 21) 2:2310 DeNoon Jonathon.GMAC - 24) 28.57,40 Zhang Harry.RAPID 29:40 50 33:03 40 22) 2.23 90 Burlton Graham.NEW 2:3092 25) 291419 Hewson Patrick.PTS 23) 2:24,43 Ember Douglas.PTS 2:33.60 26 30:0308 Donaldson lan.WDSC 24) 2:24.61 Ferraro Mitchel.USC 2:55 45 27) 30:18.94 Encendencia Owen.SKSC 30 18 94 25) 2:24 63 Diskul Tri.PTS 2 36 13 - 28) 30:40 49 Riddler Andrew.LOSC 26) 2:24 75 Chen Calvin.PTS 2:2475 2:24.75 29) 30:50 00 Lee Charles.LOSC - 28:53 91 27) 2:26 25 Doshi Jaimil.EKSC - 3:08 82 30 1 31:25 45 Ferguson Duncan.CDSC 3113.04 28) 2:27 03 Dean Ashley.PTS 2:2703 2:29 69 3D 31 25 90 Ngai Edward.RAPID 29) 2:2813 Murgalroyd Thomas, PTS 2.2613 228 13 32) 31:56 00 Lin Michael.RAPID 37:57.20 30) 2 30 87 Green Lucas.EKSC 2:50 46 3:05.86 33) 32:00 58 McDonald Jake.PTS 32 00 58 31) 2 33 50 Beaudoin Samuel.EKSC 2:28.97 3:02 84 34) 32 21.38 Kopatchev George.CDSC 32.21.38 33 22 10 32) 2.35.28 Hoogewijs Tom.PTS 35) 32 37 76 Stetopulos Michael.USC - 42:0001 33) 2:35.38 Gosal Jaeten.CDSC 2:1671 2:24 18 36) 34 02 80 Smith Trevor.PCS 32 43 00 35:40 82 34) 2 35 61 Grant Connor.NEW - - 37) 350080 Mitchell Devon.LOSC 35) 2 3868 Diskul Towe.PTS 25593 - 38) 3510 74 Jones Curtis.USC 36) 2 40 10 Matheson Beau.WDSC - 2 40 10 39) 36.2704 DeanJack.PTS 36 27 04 36:27 04 37) 2 40 66 Jordan Alex.NEW 40) 370389 Smith Taylor.NEW • 43 46 30 38) 2 42 24 Tse Douglas.PTS 2 42 24 2 42.24 41) 40:05 20 Coombs Mitchell.NEW • 36 5760 39) 2:48.00 Cairns Evan.LOSC - 42) 40.33 10 Tse Dion.CDSC 40:0867 3623 90 40) 2:50,24 Smyth Ben.LOSC 2:3693 6:3195 43) 41:20 30 Lyssov Alexandre.NEW 41) 2:52 10 Lantin Angelo G .PTS 2:5219 2:5510 44) 47 32.00 Chehroudi Ali.CDSC 42) 2:56.61 Kilty Colin.NEW - 45) 50 42 26 Chen Tyler.WDSC - 71:58,36 43) 3 00 04 Padlesky Andrew.EKSC - BOYS 7SU- 100 IND MEDLEY 44) 3:05.07 Allin Jake.EKSC - Rec 1:29 77 Andrew Bignell.SSMAC.91 April January 45) 3:22.91 Gould Ben.NEW - - 1) 1:42.23 Takahashi Andrew.SKSC 1 42,23 46) 3 34 10 Stade Talon.WDSC 4:5146 2) 1:42.88 Zhou Evan.CDSC 1 54 00 1 43 59 47) 3 48.10 Mackensie Connors.WDSC - 3) 1:5709 Assi Sherifl.PCSC 2:01 64 2:04.96 48) 3 50 36 Boreen Colton.WDSC 4:30.36 4) 2:03.58 Philipon Charles.PTS 3 2358 21803 49) 4 0432 Burke Aidan.EKSC 5) 2:04 91 Smutharaks Edward.PTS 2 04,91 22050 50) 5 00 96 Donaldson Connor.WDSC 6:03 09 6) 2 05 55 Bertrand David.PCSC 2:05.67 212,62 51) 6 01 00 Needham Gavin.EKSC 4:16.21 7) 2 07 73 McSherry George.PTS 2 19 11 24034 BOYS 9 - 200 IND. MEDLEY 8) 2 08 10 Webb David.GMAC Rec 2 41 91 Tobias 0riwol.PCSC.95 April January 9) 2:0883 Scott Psi.PTS 2:13.17 2:1317 1) 3 2317 Swanston Jetfrey.NEW 3:2752 10) 2:09 01 Candray Randy.EKSC 2:36.48 2) 3:26.24 Harrison Kyle.PTS 33527 335.27 11) 2:10 40 Okazaki Maxwell.PTS 2 10 42 2:2336 3) 3 30 22 Roche Brendan.PCSC 34116 3 39.08 12) 211 79 Winyard Gregory.PTS 2:11 79 2 24 70 4) 3 31 75 Sieira-Dovali Sebastian.PCSC 35225 13) 2 22 60 Maleenont Peak.PTS 2:44 47 5) 3 34 44 Cheyne Kyle.PTS 3 59 53 4 04 60 14) 2 31,04 Schofield Billy.PTS 2:43.73 2:4373 6) 3 35.87 D'Amour Jay.PCSC 3:3809 15) 2 34 44 Martone Kenii.PCSC 2:55.84 7) 3 3600 Burg Mason.SKSC 3 36 00 16) 2 36 49 Mansell Chris.PTS 2:3649 2:4791 B) 3 42 50 Pelosi Anthony.NEW 34760 17) 2 38.27 Ratanadaros Gene.PTS 2:38.27 3:01 80 9) 343 50 CarySam.GMAC 3:50 39 18) 2 39 14 Donald Robbie.PTS 10) 3:44 02 Shalin Phillip.NEW 3 41 69 19) 2:42,24 Jayapurna Ivan.PTS 2:5100 11) 3 4912 Matsumoto Riki.PTS 35957 4:09 51 20) 2:43 06 Read Bradley.PCSC 3 1256 2:56 96 12) 3 5005 Schofield Jamie.PTS 4 00 44 4 06.23 21) 2 43 90 Oubreuil Charles.PCSC - 3:33.76 13) 3 52 62 Lalleur Jonalhan.PCSC 404 79 41526 2;') 2:44 77 Catterwell Anthony.PTS 30421 3 1845 14) 3 5503 Pieper Thomas.NEW 4:0016 23) 2 50 72 Marinis Vassili.PCSC 3:4500 15) 4 01 90 Ortamdes George.LAC 4:1050 24) 2 52.70 Moss Henry.PTS 16) 4 02 30 Kowalski Alexander.NEW 51590 25) 2 53 17 Haldane Richard.PTS 17) 403.70 Kovacs Matthew.UC 26) 2 57.21 Reiter Philip.PTS 18) 4 04 06 Ward Brenden.PCS 4 44 41 4:59.66 2?) 301.54 LeeGabriel.WDSC - 3:01.54 19) 4 05 27 Jensen TimothyPCSC 4 03 68 41960 28) 3:02,50 Farebrother Ben.PTS 20) 4 05 35 Pepelea Thomas.PCSC 41144 4112 29) 3:08 55 Iwamoto Picco.PTS 3:08 55 3 08,55 21) 4 08 29 Bruno Dustin.PTS 41524 41524 30) 308 90 Laroche Jordan.PTS 22) 4:0913 Parsons Andrew.PCSC 4 13 76 41609 31! 3:1103 VonEndeRyan.WDSC - 4:30.73 23) 4 0944 MacPhail Brian.LOSC 42330 32) 3:11.55 Sribhibhadh Aj.PTS 3:2916 4:0227 24) 4:10 28 Lavoie Sean.PCSC 4:2179 - 33) 3 12,01 Gallacher Cameron.WDSC - 4:00,01 25) 4 1059 Minster Mark.CDSC 41059 4 42 38 34) 3 1992 Uppal Jesse.WDSC - 3:51.42 26) 41521 GawthomeAlex.PTS 4:1521 41521 35) 3 2544 McCannJack.PTS 27) 4 1650 Raza Reid.PCSC SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 9R\ CO) A 1Q C.A P,au/thnrno Inch P'K 4.13.04 udWUIUI lie JUol l,r I 0 4 19 54 419 54 Ml A 10. CI Pie Ipm PptPr PT^ 4 13 0/ Uc JCU rclci,r 1 0 4 36 19 436 19 30) A 01 fifl I olL/oman Cuon DPC 471 ou LciKeman tvan.ruo 4 10 70 4 29 27 31i A OA A1 Woaloi/ Rnnan I ICP 4 OU U I ncdlcy nuNdll.UoL- 656 04 32) d 31 OP. UrAiilau Rrian MFW 4 01.00 MCMUIcy DlldnjNCVV 33} A 1A Qfi lu/amntn Pnntn P PT^ 4.04 30 IWdllllJlU rlllUU r.,r 1 O 4 34 96 4 34 96 5 09 45 35) A- "id Qfl P-nnnarccnn PatriL PTQ 4 39 98 36) d dC. 70 \fJko inrirpiw PTQ 37) o uu uo "diiy luiiy.uuou 5 07 88 5 46 83 38) C AA GQ 1 oiinn Kcu/in PI"iC.P o uu oy Lcuny Mdvin.uuoij 5 04 19 5 23 21 J9) G. fl.7 dfi Klaxon Pnlp 1 fKP j U/ UO Masbcll UUicrLUoL- 4 47 00 4 53 21 40! Cf\d 0(\ Pafpnanrte Rpn MFW J UO UO rdlclldUUt; DCIIJiLm 41) G. no Q1 RnnPf Ma* PTQ j Uu y I □UNCI IVIdJvlj 5 08 91 508 91 491 ^ 1fl (19 ^avani Yach PTC, o lU.Ut odvdii) idoii,rio 510 02 5 1fi Minhtnn KvIp MFW j iu.O" iviiyi iiui i r\yic,iiLiv 44) ^ 1ft ("IP, PhMfavnnnnt Pnnh PT^ j i o uo oi icoiavuiiui'i r uuM.r i o jc, i tDJ Occ.3U DcL* nydii,LnL> 5:57 50 46) ^ 94 fifi Phnnn Inchna Pl^ 171 4') 5:25 32 Sonnlag Jonathan.WDSC 6 05 64 48) 5:27.63 Kanjanapas Tito.PTS 5 34 34 43) 5 43.91 Gilmore Hayden.LOSC 50) 6 06.73 Koziol-Neumann Aiexander.PCS - 31] 6:2363 Bar r TylerCDSC 52) 6:33.80 Brown Robbie,LAC O.JO OU 5!) 7:01.43 Uppal Perry, WDSC 7 01 43 54, 8:06 01 Prefontaine Keith.WOSC 8 08 21 BOYS 10 ■ 400 IND. MEDLEY Rec: 5:29 10 Tobias Oriwol.PCSC.96 April January U fi flft 7ft ftrilln (Ulatfhp* PP^P O.UO.'O UMIIU IVIdlfl IcW.r uou 626 29 6 44 29 P. 99 ^almnn Rrauripn 1 AP O LL OU OdllllUII DldyUcll.LMU 6 57 68 91 O.tO.yU olildlllKU lvllL,lldCl,nnr 1U 6 40 80 6 56 70 41 V fi-9ft 4fl Gilmnnr Mark 1 AP 6 43 33 3) fi'19 W 7pman Frik PP^P U.Oc OJ LCIMdM Lllr\.r UJLi 65752 717 45 fil 6 44 86 Hariri Kareem PCSC 7 1 1 .27 7 26 32 7A '/ 6 4859 Blackmore Ryan.OSC 71988 7 31 43 0) 65000 Williams Mac 0SC 7 03 84 7 27 43 y) 650 72 mi IU) 654 15 Porapakkham Booky PTS 6:5415 6 54 15 1 1 1 6 54 46 Lessard Charles.PCSC 7 12 16 191 654 54 Sura Conner PCSC 6.5388 6 58 79 fi *iQ \t\ Kuknvirji larnh PMAP 0.03 OU ^\U^UVIlwa JdLUU,UIVInl«' 14) 7 02 00 Cooke Landon.EKSC 15) 7:08 24 Peddie Luke.OSC 7:39.41 7 55 23 16) 7:20.30 Moflalt Hayden.GMAC 1?) 7 20.85 Jamieson Colin.PCSC 715.96 739 38 18) 7 29.21 Gan Wil.PTS 7:2921 ft ns nfi 19) 7.36 26 Manny Frederic.PCSC 7 44 94 20) 7:4161 Edling Cameron.NEW 21) 7:48.30 Zhang Harry.RAPID 8 35 10 9 13 70 22) 7 5308 Gilmarlin Eric.PCSC 7:5709 ft n5 fin 23) 80640 Wilson Joel.GMAC 24) 8:11.02 Fyle Conner.NEW 9 09 55 25) 81102 Kingston Cameron.NEW 26) 812 90 Ferguson Duncan.COSC 27) 81749 Encendencia Owen.SKSC 8:17.49 28) 8:22.49 Karnakov Michael.NEW 29) 8:23 93 Fyle Tyler.NEW 9 14 30 SO) 8:29 92 Lee Charles.LOSC 8 24 86 31) 8 44.50 Paterson Chris.RAPID 9 01 80 32) 844 77 McDonald Jake.PTS 8 44 77 33) 85034 McLean Ryan.CDSC 8:49.39 34) 9:03 10 Ngai Edward.RAPID 35) 9:12.40 Smith Trevor.PCS 91240 in nn nn 36) 919.12 Donaldson lan.WDSC 37) 9:2177 Coombs Mitchell.NEW 1016 16 38) 9:31.51 Slelopulos Michael, USC 1 1 nn on 1 1 uu yu 39) 9:40.38 Kopatchev George.CDSC 94038 10 09 20 40) 9 42 20 Smith Taylor.NEW 41) 9 45 05 Mitchell Devon.LOSC 42) 9:47 73 Riddler Andrew.LOSC 43) 9:53.87 Dean Jack.PTS 9:53 87 9:53.87 44) 10:39.22 Lyssov Alexandre.NEW 45) 14.50 30 ChenTyler.WDSC 16:10.30 46, 15:31 32 Tetzel Jonathan.WDSC GIRLS EVENTS GIRLS 7&U-200 FREESTYLE Rec 2:55 04 Donna Wu,AQUA,85 April January D 3 36 08 Ouimet Anana.PCSC 3:59.66 4:15.79 2) 3:36.93 Kaiho Arisa.PTS 3:58.71 3:58.71 3) 3:48.32 Kaiho Emiri.PTS 4:31.84 4:31.84 4) 3:48.82 Philipon Mathilde.PTS 3:53.49 4:59.36 5) 3 51 38 Maleenon! Pure.PTS 4:4664 6) 3:52 73 Leblanc Melanie.PCSC 4:0910 4:13.30 7) 3:57.23 Kremer Paige.OSC 445.26 8) 4:03.55 Kanjanapas Tita.PTS 4:2846 4:28.46 9) 4:03.71 Farebrother Jade.PTS 4:03.71 454.93 10) 4:14.93 Jensen Patricia.PCSC 4:17.60 ") 4:2166 Miller Caitlin.PCSC 4:45.19 5:02.60 12) 4:26.00 Papadedes Sophie.GMAC 13) 4:2739 Vongluekiat Pim.PTS 4:5255 6:4445 14) 4:29.10 Guerriero Natasha.PCSC 4:55.93 4:50.25 15) 4 44 38 Greaves Mae.PTS 4:46.50 16, 445.77 Amesz Rebecca.PTS 4:5287 5:23.08 171 A AQ 1fl Rarrott Fmma PUAP 4 43 IU Odllcll CIHIIId.UIVInb 1ftl A AQ 10 Trawrw Alova PPQP 4.43 jl lidyllUI rAlcXd.rUoij 5 24 85 1Q1 4 ;t r*i->} 1 CA fi1 (l^alopfinnt Dura DTC i 04 0 1 rvidicenoni rure,r i o 2:13.54 D) O nn CO I ohhnr Mohnio DPCP ii-uu.jy Lcuidnc ivieianie,rL.oU 1:59.50 2.14 34 71 O no 7Q k'romor Paino HCP 0 OA 01 PacarnHn AlovanHra PPQP c U4,£ I UdjdlUUU nlcXd[IU[a,rOoL' 2:0610 1 ii nn 1 12 99 O n7 OO Dire nnr C-iminth-% DPCP i.\)t yo rarsons bamanina.rUoL 2:0238 2 16.33 1(11 IU) 0 10 CA lancon Dilnr-n DPCP 1 iu.j4 Jensen rauicia.ruou 2:1559 214 08 11) 2:12.41 Kanjanapas Tila, PTS 2:12 41 2:18.92 12) 1 lo uo buernero Naiasna.rubU 2:1669 2 37.50 1 1 loj 0-10 m UnnnluoLiaf Pirn PTC L. I0.0 1 VUliyiUcKldf rllll.r I O 2:32.71 3 3844 14) 0 1k QC Cimhr/ithor InHo DTC i.ib ob rareoroiner jaoe,rib 2:16.86 2 16.96 ID) O OO 10 \/innHn Alaona DTC 1.1-5. \s vigoaaAieena.rib 2:23 13 3:0760 ID) 1-1A fifi ProauQC Mia DTC i m W brcdvcS IVIdc," 1 0 2:27.71 3 02 50 17) 2:2810 Papadedes Sophie.GMAC 18) 0 OO Cn AtvuFi Drthni-M DTC 1 Mm Amesz neDecca.r lb 2.3830 2:4806 19) O OO fin Pani Channnn ClUkP 1 00. ou uary onannon.biviAU 3:13.18 20) i.jqoa Meicaiie Manna.LUbb 911 O OK HA W/nHhinntnn Dnminn 1 HCP ii ob 04 vvonriingion numina.LUob 2:3804 2:35 11 22) O 07 Cn n'Anricf Planiallo PftilAP 1.51 ou uAoust uaniene.uMAb 402.89 911 O Ofl m Canllfnor Daatriv DTC ii.jo.iu rauiKner Deairix.rio 254.21 24) O On C1 hJI-ilnonnnl Dinn DTC ^ jy.Di rviaieenoni rann.r 10 25) 2:43.40 Barrett Emma.GMAC 3:02 43 9K1 2b) 2:43.97 Hurmuses Elli.PTS 2:4397 2:54.11 27) 2:45.19 Day Hellie.PTS 28) 2:46 69 Skelton Ellie.PTS 29) 2:46.73 Tien Tien.PTS 2 46 73 2 46 73 30) 2:48.09 Blackhurst Katy.PTS 31) 2:48 78 Chatuchinda Nina.PTS 2:57 37 3:31 .07 32) 2 49 37 Melcalle Hillary.LOSC 31214 3:31.22 33) 2:5014 Macleod Emily.PCSC 3:19.56 3 1808 34) 2 5099 Gunnarsson Mimi.PTS 2:50 99 35) 2:5164 Chung Becky.PTS 3:01 62 31711 36) 2 51 65 Gilmore Hayley.LOSC 37) 2:53 27 Keighan Rachael.PCS 33) 2:54 46 McCarthy Kayla.PCSC 2:48.23 3:02 75 39) 2 57.24 Filmer Caleigh.PCS 40) 2:5811 Brown Kaitlyn.WDSC 3:17 34 41) 2:59 05 Filmer Katherine.PCS 42 1 2:59.27 Fuller Nalalie.PCS 43) 2.59.46 Singh Cai Hong.WDSC 44) 3:03.38 Rivas Vanessa.LOSC 2:54 00 3:34 61 45) 3:18 48 Yokokawa Naomi.PTS 3 1848 3:24.01 46) 3 18 84 Karsten Felien.PTS 47) 48) 3:19.00 Ellis Peach.PTS 3:20.61 Dimitrov Andrea.EKSC 4 1090 49) 3:2610 Tonellato Emma.GMAC 50) 3:2919 Bauder Kim.LOSC 3:45 90 4 1347 51) 3:30.00 Lehnen Emily.GMAC 3 1752 52) 3:3101 Buranasiri Nook.PTS 53) 3:34.01 Chabot Emily.LOSC 3:31.50 54) 3 41 23 Warden Hillary.EKSC 55) 3:4413 Sieira-Dovali Isabella.PCSC 4:51 33 56) 3:55.23 Hayashi Ella.PCS 57) 3:5609 Dumas Allison.WDSC 35686 58) 4:02 58 Nishida Sakiko.PTS 59) 4 06. 71 Devlin-Thomas Claire.EKSC 60) 4:12 31 Trandalilouski Mina.EKSC 61) 4 16.44 Hopkins Kiaia.PCS 62) 4 59.55 Johnston Blair.LOSC 4:25.20 4 25 63 63) 5:37.79 Walley Olivia.WDSC GIRLS 8 -100 IND. MEDLEY Rec 1:27 52 Donna Wu.AQUA.85 April January 1) 1:41.43 Dwyer Marlie.EKSC 2:07.21 2) 1 42.20 Bertrand Genna.PCS 211 82 3) 1:44.44 Vongluekiat Top.PTS 1 45 44 1:48.01 SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 11 *> 1 44.60 Cromwell Micaley.GMAC 1:49.07 5) 1:4597 Sittheeamorn Marisa.PTS 1:5167 1:51.67 6) 1 4607 Wor.gchindawes! Dee Dee.PTS 151 18 2 03 66 7) 1 4745 McCullough Megan.PCSC 1.50.53 1 59.74 8) 1 48 89 Sura Kylie.PCSC 1:51.69 1:59.75 9) 151.00 Burton Haylie.GMAC 1:58.41 10) 1 52 71 DepewDasha.PTS 1:52.71 2 05 06 ») 1.56 22 SoKonUiapanich Tanawan.MEW 2:29.15 12) 2 01 98 Slinis Chloe.PCSC 2:05.10 2:15.38 13) 2:02.23 Hopkins Laura.LAC - 14) 202 33 Martone Kimiko.PCSC 2:05.09 2:12.39 15) 203 39 McKeeBrooke.PCSC 2:01.36 2:12.77 16) 2:06.63 Tooker Emily.PCSC 2:07.94 2:12.63 17) 2 08 73 Barrack Megan.NEW 2:19.73 18) 2:09 70 Kingston Vicloria.NEW 2:1379 19) 2:10 30 Smith Jamie.NEW 2:20.53 20) 2:1047 Gibson Shanagh.PCSC 2:02.91 2:17.33 21) 2.1080 Hooan Olivia.USC 2:57.95 22) 2:10.85 Coombs Sammy.NEW 2:10.29 23) 2:11.18 Gallou Deborah.PCSC 2:14.22 24) 2:1406 Nowlan Berkley.OSC - 25) 2:14 34 Riddler Eve.LOSC - - 26) 2:15.92 Martineau Katherine.PCSC - 27) 2:16.03 Pieters Arieie.PCSC 2:09.57 2:46.47 28) 2:1612 AmeszAnne Lize.PTS 2:16.12 2:24.82 29) 2:19.45 Chia Jasmine.PTS 2:28.59 2:35.65 30) 2:20.61 NovackVanessa.PCSC 2:21.50 2:35.43 3D 2:21.25 Craney Madison.PCSC 2:32.67 32) 2:21 88 Kalbarczyk Paulina.PCSC 2:25.43 33) 2:22.80 Bishop Maya,GMAC 2:22.77 34) 2:22.94 Lorimer Emily.USC 2:43.72 35) 2:23.91 Petzoldt Willow.EKSC 2:45.22 36) 2:2750 Webb Alicia.GMAC 3:31.02 37) 2:28.06 Diskul Auey.PTS 3:05.94 38) 2:28.72 Tremblay Emilie.EKSC 39) 2:29.81 Moffatt Madeline.NEW 2:32.44 40) 2:30.50 Stamp Katherine.GMAC 3:32.07 41) 2:31.02 Coulter Callie.LAC - 42) 2:36.06 Baker Rene.NEW 2:58.05 43) 2:38.06 Titus Nora.PTS 2:38.06 2:3806 44) 2:42 40 Cross-Kihs Mallory.GMAC 45) 2:43.44 Saroukian Alisia.EKSC - 40 J 0A7Ti Uotto tannine PTC 47) 48) 2 54.22 Roberts Nicole.NEW 2:55.60 Hopkins Zoe.PCS 2:55.72 49) 2:57.58 Saurette Alexandra.EKSC 3:28.01 50) 3:14.75 Pylypa Kaitlin.EKSC 51) 4:00.15 Armstrong Alexandra.PCS 52) 4:21.43 Sonnlag Julianna.WDSC 4:03.43 GIRLS 9 - 200 IND. 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Contact: Bob Duenkel 1 Chikopi Road, Ahmic Harbour, Ontario, POA 1A0, Canada, (705) 387-3811 / Fax (705) 387-4747 During the winter contact: 2132 NE 17 Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305 (954) 566-8235 / Fax (954) 525-4031 campchikopi@aol.com www.campchikopi.com CAMP AK-O-MAK Established 1928. The world's very first competitve swimming camp for girls (ages 7-17). Contact: Pat Kennedy 240 Akomak Road, Ahmic Harbour, Ontario, POA 1A0, Canada, (705) 387-3810 / Fax (705) 387-4838 During the winter contact: P.O. Box 787, Kankakee, IL 60901, USA (815) 928-9840 / Fax (815) 928-8971 campakomak@aol.com www.campakomak.com ENTAL TRAINING OPEN WATER & POOL SWI WING HISTORY THE BIRTH OF THE SHAVE-DOWN The idea for the pre-race shave-down ritual came from observing a yachtsman on Sydney's Parramatta River Cecil Colwin Few swimmers know that the shave-down ritual started 50 years ago in a Sydney suburb near the stadium where the 2000 Olympics were held. Clyde Henricks, the inventor of the shave-down, was the father of Jon Henricks, at the time a promising but disappointed young distance swimmer who had missed inclusion on the 1952 Australian Olympic Team. Jon was on the point of giving up the sport, but stayed on to become Australia's first-ever male 100 metres Olympic champion. His victory in the 1956 Olympics spearheaded his country's almost clean sweep of the swimming events. What follows is swimming history. Nearly retired The previous year, Jon's career had been in the doldrums. Jon had been well coached and had a fluent stroke with a long glide, and was regarded as a natural distance swimmer. Foryears, he had swum many miles in training but was becoming tired of "the lack of progress for the amount of work done." At the Australian Swimming Championships in Melbourne in February 1952, which were also the trials for the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Jon had set his sights on making the Olympic Team. He won the 400 but was disappointed at coming third in the 1500, his main event, and finishing only second in the 800. Jon told his coach, Harry Gallagher, that he wanted to retire from swimming. But Gallagher had a word with Professor Frank Cotton, a famous sport physiologist and researcher at the University of Sydney, asking him if he could persuade Henricks to stay in the sport. Soon, Jon had a call from Frank Cotton inviting him to his office for a chat. Career as a Sprinter Begins He sat Jon down in his study and said, "Jon do you know that, even if you did nothing more as a swimmer, you've already reached the ninety percentile in the world. You're probably disappointed because you didn't make the Olympics, but how many people have done as well as you have done in your sport, and it would be silly to give this up right now. If you were to come to the University with your ability no better than it is right now, and with a reasonable grade average, you could probably qualify for a Rhodes Scholarship." Jon said, "This was strong stuff for a 17-year-old. Then, almost as a throwaway line, he added, 'Besides, I think you should be a sprinter!' I was intrigued and QUICK FACTS: HENRICKS, Jon, AUS BIRTHDATE 6JUN1934 PLACE Sydney.NSW HEIGHT 183 cm COACH Harry Gallagher (AUS) 1 950-60 Peter Daland (USA) 1957-60 International • 1960 Olympics 12th 100 free 57.2 semi-final • 1956 Olympics 1st 100 free 55.4 1st 4x200 free • 1954 Commonwealths 1st 110 free 56.60, 1st 4x220 free, 1st 3x110 medley Other NSW (New South Wales state championships) 1952 1st 440 free 4:55.0, 1st 1650 free 19:53.8 1953 1st 110 free 58.0, 1st 220 free 2:13.2 1954 1st 110 free 57.1, 1st 220 free 2:09.0 1955 1st 110 free 56.3, 1st 220 free 2:06.5 AUS (National Championships) 1952 3rd 440 free, 1st 880 free, 2nd 1650 free 1953 1st 110 free 57.2, 1st 220 free 2:09.8 1954 1st 110 free 56.8, 1st 220 free 2:09.9 1955 1st 110 free 57.2 1956 1st 110 free 55.5 USA (National Outdoor Championships) 1958 1st 100 free 55.8, 1st 200 free 2:05.2, 1st 4x200 free USA (SC yards) 1958 AAU 3rd 100 free 50.0, 2nd 220 free 2:02.5 1959 AAU 4th 100 free 49.8, 2nd 220 free 2:02.6, 1st 4x100 free 1960 NCAA 5th 100 free 50.4, 1st 4x100 free World Records 100 free 55.4 Nov 30,1956, Melbourne 4x200 free 8:23.6 Australia.AUS, Melbourne,Dec.3,1956 Kevin O'Halloran.John Devitt.Murray Rose.Jon Henricks LONG COURSE PROGRESSION (Ranking in bracket) 100 free 200 free 1952 58.5 1953 56.9(1) 2:09.8 (4) 1954 56.1 (1) 2:07.3(1) 1955 55.8(1) 2:06.9(1) 1956 55.4(1) 2:05.3 (2) 1957 56.1 (2) 1958 55.7 (2) 2:05.2 (3) 1959 1960 56.9 2:04.2 (8) 1973 International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee excited. I walked out of the meeting feeling at least a foot taller and filled with resolve! In the next meet I entered the 50-metre dash, and I killed the field! My new career as a sprinter was about to begin!" Home on the Parramatta River The Henricks family lived on 75 Llewellyn Street in the riverside suburb of Rhodes. Near the Henricks' residence was a sailing club, home to a number of amateur sailors who sailed their racing boats on the river. Popular among them was a one-man class of Australian-designed boat called the "Vaucluse Junior" and the "Vaucluse Senior." From their verandah overlooking the Parramatta River, Clyde Henricks and family enjoyed watching A hairy-chested Jon Henricks with coach Harry Gallagher graceful sailboats skimming back and forth across the bay. One of the sailors, Don Melrose, lived two houses away, and Henricks noticed that Melrose was always sanding and then varnishing the hull of his racing boat. Henricks was fascinated by this procedure and asked Melrose the reason for it. Don replied: "I've noticed that smoothing the hull doesn't do too much good when the wind is blowing hard, but with a clean hull, if there's not too much wind, I can coast at about a mile and a half faster than anyone else." Melrose's explanation caused Henricks to wonder whether some variation of this concept could help increase his son's swimming speed. The Birth of the "Shave-Down" Although he wasn't about to sandpaper and varnish his son's body, an idea was germinating in his mind. He said to Jon, "Swimmers only swim at about two and a half miles per hour, but you are a sprinter moving nearer to four miles an hour at top speed, and if it makes that kind of a difference to a slower vessel, maybe we ought to take a look at your 'hull'" — and so he made Jon take off his shirt. Jon's father said, "Good grief, Jon, you're as hairy as an ape." Jon told me what happened next and how, there and then, swimming history was about to be made: "He got out an old Gillette shaver and shaved all the hair clean off my chest. We went to the pool that afternoon and I couldn't believe the difference. We got my coach, Harry Gallagher, to time me over a few sprints, and. sure enough, I was moving better." Encouraged by this, Jon and his coach started to experiment. At first they didn't want to shave his arms and legs because they thought his limbs were the "power surfaces" and that these "paddles" provided more surface to pull through the water. But curiosity got the 14 SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 better of them, and they decided that Jon should first shave the hair off his legs, and only later, off his arms. Jon said "The difference was a quantum leap in time!" The First Pre-Meet Shave-Down Jon 's next important meet was the New South Wales State Championships where he was due to swim against Frank O'Neill, the only Australian to have broken the minute for 1 10 yards freestyle with a time of 59-6. Included in the field was John Devitt, a youngster, who had never broken 59. but was by far the best junior sprinter in Australia. In Jon's first attempt at racing with his chest shaved, to his astonishment, he won easily with a time of 58.5. Jon and Coach Gallagher decided to experiment further, and the stopwatch showed improvement with each new stage. By the time of the Australian Championships in 1953, Jon took the bigstep of shaving his arms. On the day of the meet, the stands at the famous North Sydney pool were packed with the swim-crazy Sydney crowd. Rex Aubrey, the reigning champion and record-holder, was at Yale University on a scholarship, and a new champion was about to be crowned. The race started and Jon, fully shaved down for the first time, had an eerie feeling as though he was gliding far above the surface of the water. At the wall, he spun out of the tumble turn and started to increase the pace. Stroking steadi ly throu gh to the finish, hewassurprisedto see that he had won by three yards. His time of 57.20 was exactly two seconds faster than the previous Australian record. His "shaved hull" had done the trick. The next day, swimming against an even more formidable field, Jon won the 220 yards freestyle, pulling away from Murray Rose at the 175 yards mark to win in 2 min. 09.8 sec, another Australian record. Jon's swims on those two days had made him the fastest swimmer in the world. Present at the meet, as guest of the Australian SwimmingUnion,wastheJapanesesuper-starHironoshin Furuhashi. Furuhashi was impressed by Jon's new Australian 1 10 yards record of 57.2, which converted to the metric distance, put him slightly ahead of the Olympic record on paper. Furuhashi recommended to thejapanese Swimming Federation that Jon be invited to compete in the 1953 Japanese National Championships, at that time one of the most prestigious swimming meets in the world. In thejapanese Championships, Jon became the first foreign swimmer to win both the 100 and 200 freestyle titles. Later, in a big international meet in Osaka, before acrowd of 25,000, Jon again won the double at 100 and 200. On his way home, he stopped in Singapore, where he swam the 100 metres in 56.9 seconds, the fastest long course time in the world that year. After these performances in his first international outing, Jon was recognized as the Australasian "Athlete of the Year" for 1953 by the Helm's Foundation. Thus began a great career, which culminated Dawn Fraser in baggy-suit, with Jon Henricks and David Theile in the background From Cecil Colwin's interview with Jon Henricks: "At our team reunion in Townsville in 2000 the teams that trained there in the 1950s and 1960s had a-for-fun relay and in order to provide a little comic relief I brought along some of the old neck to knee woolen suits that were made by Jantzen back in the twenties. "Jan Andrew and I wore them. I tell you by the end of the 50m I thought I was going to drown. They absorbed about 20 lbs of water. I suddenly had a great deal more respect for Boy Charlton , Arne Borg, et al. (stars of the 1920s). In the early 1950s we in Australia didn't have access to the nylon suits that were state of the art at the time. I remember that the mothers of the club at Drummoyne formed sewing bees and fashioned us suits out of nylon and silk ladies undergarments. Dawn Fraser has a picture somewhere of her being fitted by my mother. "There are a multitude of reasons for today's improvements; more advanced training mehods, rule changes, better conditions, goggles, etc. "If it is proven that the new suits are like wearing floaties then there is no question they should not be allowed. FINA should play an active role in examining them." in Jon Henrick's winning the 100 metres at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. The First Olympic Shave-Down Jon described how the effect of tapering, combined with shaving down, helped him to keep dropping his times as he approached the Melbourne Olympic Games. "Before we got to the team's pre-Olympic training camp in Townsville, I don't think that other swimmers were shaving down. The word probably hadn't leaked out yet. Cyrus Weld, from Queensland, a swimmer in Harry's squad, certainlyshaveddown.MurrayGarrettywasprobably another one. I 'm not sure whether Murray Rose was aware of it at that early stage." However, by 1956, every member of the Australian team shaved down for the Olympics. The entire team experienced enhanced feel of the water, caused by the unusual stimulation of the sensory nerve endings of the skin. This added to their already high team spirit. Coming at the end of many weeks of hard training, this newprocess, strange as it was at the time, gave the whole team an unusual feeling of well-being and confidence. Jon said, "The rest >f the world was aware of what we were doing, but not until they saw how successful we were as a team did they become believers. I discussed shaving-down with George Breen at the U.S. 2000 Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. George said that he had thought it effeminate and a big 'hype.' But, a couple of years ago, when he started swimming Masters again, George shaved down before the 1 500 metres. George's comment was, ' If I had done that in 1956, 1 would have beaten Murray!'" After the 1956 Australian swimming success, swimmers in other countries started shaving down, the prevailing opinion being that the benefit was largely psychological and therefore worthwhile. However, Dr Costill's 1987 scientific studies at Ball State University showed that shaving really worked and was not merely a psychological effect. (Costill, D. I. (1987) Building a better mousetrap. SwimmingTechnique, 24, (3), 34-36.) Footnote: The Shave Down and the Fast Suits With the advent of the so-called "new generation" of "fastsuits," some leading coaches and swimmers are asking whether the new suits will do away with the pre-race shave-down. Still others ask, "Which is more important — the shave-down or The Suit?" What do the suits do that a shave-down cannot do? One coach said, ' 'With respect to the traditional practice of shaving body hair, I believe that the great feeling of smoothness and excitement while warming up for a race continues to have value. Our swimmers will be shaving as fully as ever, before donning the fast suit for the race. I feel that the material of the suit allows some of the body hair to stick through and therefore shaving may still have validity for that purpose." Another leading coach said that all his swimmers shave down before donning the suit. He added that his swimmers can still feel the effects of the shave down after donning the suit. "Our current plan will include the use of both methods in preparation for the ultimate performance. The shave-down is still very important." I believe that for the "most" important meet they all shave," another top coach said, "for mid- season meets they tend not to — which is why the "full-body" suits help during the midseason. SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 15 ■PSONALITY: EDDIE REESE THERE IS NO EASY WAY Finding a way to get them to go faster each year the program must continually get more demanding for each individual Jeff Grace Before passing th rough the doors and entering the pool at the University of Texas, you have no choice but to read the many articles about a coach whose record of accomplishment can be termed as nothing other than marvelous: 8 NCAA Team Titles, 38 NCAA Individual Titles, 1 50 All Americans, and 22 Olympians who have collected a total of 21 gold medals (this all before this year). With comparisons to Doc Counsilman and John Wooden inevitably made in many of these articles, it puts Eddie Reese, the foundation of UT's Men's swimming program for more than 26 years, in the eyes of many as one of the greatest swimming and college coaches of all time. Reese, being the person that he is, will joke about those accomplishments, but in a serious manner, hand the recognition out where he feels it belongs-to his mentors, people like Peter Daland, Don Gambril, and Doc Counsilman, to his assistant coaches, specifically Kris Kubik, and especially placing the rite of recognition on the swimmers' laps. Currently, the swimmers who have come under the guidance of Reese have been Ian Crocker, Aaron Peirsol, and Brendon Hansen. Recently, during an email correspondence, Eddie kindly took the time to answer some questions on his philosophy and program at the University of Texas. The philosophy "Find away to get them to go faster each year. Better strokes, starts, turns, breakouts, and finishes. Either they must work harder, or I must have harderworkouts. I make decisions for the athlete before myself, my goal is their fast swimming." While Reese's goal and first priority is simply having his athletes swim fast, how he achieves it is unique. In the words of Stanford Women's Head Coach Richard Quick, "Eddie Reese is a model coach; he's a model human being. The thing I admire about Eddie is he's a tremendous teacher, he's a tremendous communicator, and he always has and always gives everything he knows or cares about to those people who are willing to listen." Being satisfied with what he knows and how he Athletics/Univ.of Texas QUICK FACTS: REESE Eddie (USA) • Head coach University of Texas since 1979 • 2004 Olympic men's head coach • 2003 Worlds men's assistant coach • 2000 Olympic men's assistant coach • 1998 World's men assistant coach • 1996 Olympic men's assistant coach • 1992 Olympic men's assistamt coach • 1988 Olympic men's assistant coach • 1992 NCAA Scholar and Swim Trophy winner • 1991 ASCA Coach of the Year • 1980 to present 24 consecutive men's Conference Team titles • Five-time NCAA men's team title • Coached 38 NCAA individual winners • Coached 18 Olympians at four Olympics to 19 gold medals • National team athletes: Ian Crocker, Josh Davis, Nate Dusing, Scott Goldblatt, Brendan Hansen, Bryan Jones, Aaron Peirsol, Jamie Rauch and Neil Walker. • 1963 graduate of Florida, earned masters degree in 1965 • Married to Elinor and the couple has two daughters, two grandsons and one grandaughter that helped their success." The University of Texas (UT) program When looking at a college program, you have to start with looking at the recruitingprocess. The athletes that are recruited are the first ingredient in a successful team. When recruiting swimmers, Reese looks at four major points, with one of them being the most important. "Feel for the water, feel for the water, feel for the water — work ethic, background (relative to where they are in their career at this point) , and being a good student." Having athletes enter UT with the ability to move forward within the program is the most important aspect. When beginning the season, college coaches have the unique challenge of mixing a group that they have worked with and their recruiting class, which inevitably comes from a variety of backgrounds in expectations, training, and technique. Different coaches handle this in different ways. Reese takes the < first three weeks of the season to go over the stroke drills they will be using, starts, turns, and the routines within the program. The teaching process that Reese uses at this time of the year shows how much he values the educational process within his swimming program. "Everyone goes through this process, whether you're a senior or a freshman. I break them into groups and have the best teachers (in the group of swimmers) work with other swimmers. Eventually everyone teaches a lot. We use two tivo systems- above and below water-that we move to each lane for everyone to use. This is the stuff that is hard to do, but I believe the coach must get off his seat and do it consistently." "I don't expect them to get everything right, just have an idea or a place to start," says Reese of this process. Throughout the yearwith his incomingclass, Reese makes sure that they are making appropriate adjustments by monitoring their levels of adaptation so that they do not get too run down and educating them on wh at must be done to achieve their individual goals. One of the best examples of how Reese deals with the athletes whoenterthe UTprogram is the evolution of Ian Crocker since the 2000 Sydney Olympics. "Ian made the Olympic team after his senior year in high school with a good program. He came out of Maine thinking that his strength program was the best and the swimming program was good. The first two years at Texas, he did about 50% of the weight program (which was understandable; he still believed in his old program) and wanted to be in the sprint group." "He improved 0.2 seconds in two years. We were not happy. The best thing to happen to him was Phelps beating him in the 100 fly in Fort Lauderdale. The next year he did about 80% of the weight program and was in the distance lane three days a week." 18 SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 Assistant Coach Kris Kubik and Edddie Reese "He took a risk in Barcelona with no guarantee of success or finishing. That eventual success made him better in practice. Since, he has done 110% of the weight program and is in the distance lane five times a week." The key to the success of the UT program is not in how Reese sets up his seasonal plan or how he plans out the week for his swimmers, it is what is done on a daily basis, consistently. Reese believes that there are three things that are priorities and that direct what he does: (1) better technical performances, (2) increase in strength, and (3) increase swimmers' background in the water, both aerobically and anaerobically. To develop those priorities and to have the juniors and seniors at UT continue to improve, the program must continually get more demanding for each individual. At UT, an atmosphere has been built and an attitude within the program has been developed so that athletes are motivated to do a more demanding program each and every year. "Positive atmosphere at training; how you talk to people every day, difficult and different practices (I have never repeated a practice), and consistency; we aim for the end of the year and don't let anything get in our way (no personal stuff and emotional meets)." This is how Reese has developed an atmosphere and an attitude in the UT program that has become the foundation for a tradition of success. The training program The UT program is split into three basic groups: sprint, middle distance, and distance. These groups are separated by the athletes' training needs, not by their racing specialties. Reese trains his athletes into adaptation failure, but makes sure that he has a meet that is six weeks out of the major competition to properly evaluate where they are, "By having a way to Athletics/Univ.ol Texas measure where they are at six weeks out, it still leaves me time to correct the mistakes I have made." Two things that Reese feels are integral to their trainingprogram arestrength training and kick. When it comes to strength gains, it must first be determined where the individual is in their strength development. "People who don't exercise can get stronger doing 4 x 10 push ups and 10 crunchies every 2 min; then they move to 6 x after two weeks; then to 8 x. The program must change to increase strength. As a swimmer gets as strong as Neil Walker (4 x 6 - 225 lb on the bench), he won't get stronger going 3 x 1 5, we must find another upgrade." To find those "upgrades," Reese learns from everyone around him. Football coaches, basketball coaches, and other swim coaches are just a few of the people that Reese will draw from. An example of those upgrades are: two times a week the UT swimmers will use wheelboards (a Randy Reese invention, where the swimmers kneel on boards with lawn mower wheels attached to the sides, using their arms to move) and rope climb. The second ingredient in the program is kick. "We will do two or three days a week where we will do a kick set that lasts around 50 minutes. This will alternate between long sets and extremely intense and fast sets." Reese feels that kick is an essential part of any swimmer's success. When talking about this subject, he will draw you in, telling stories of the great kick sets that many of the world's greatest swimmers have done, especially proud of those swimmers who have trained at UT. "When Shawn Jordan was here, he could kick 23.5 for 50 yards free with a board and 10.0 with no board underwater." Just the way Reese is "A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything." Reese said. "In swimming, there is no easy wa succeed in any sport there are two keys — after the obvious needs of a certain amount of ability and hard work — and these keys are self-image and enjoyment. It's something you have to work on every day, day-in and day-out. Everybody knows how to work people hard. The key is to work them hard and protect the mind." When walking out of the doors of the University of Texas swimming pool, you realize that you have experienced something special. The articles on the door speak the truth, but there is no secret, no formula, no special sets or way of planning that have been responsible for Reese's success. It is because of how he treats people, how much he cares, and his desire to continually improve. Gives everything he knows to those people who are willing to listen Athletics/Univ.ol Texas SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 19 AMERICAN PERSONALITY: AARON PEIRSOL THE PERFECT SWIMMER Not afraid to be fast, hopes for four golds in Athens Nikki Dryden Since turning pro in March of this year, thousands of words have been printed and dozens of cliches have been used to describe Aaron Peirsol. There has been much ado about his love of California: its beaches, the Pacific, and the sport of surfing. His accomplishments are usually listed: how fast he is, how he may win four Olympic gold medals in Athens, and how he could make or break the summer for Michael Phelps. But the link between those two personas appeared to be missing and it was not apparent how his two halves, so seemingly opposite in nature, existed simultaneously: How could this "surfer dude" be comfortable in Texas, and, more importantly, how could someone likened to Spicoli, the slacker from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, go a 1:55.15 in the 200 back? The answers to those questions turned out to be quite simple. Aaron Peirsol is not a slacker merely because he loves the beach life. Aaron Peirsol is j ust himself, without two halves or a split personality. His interests do not oppose each other, but support him. Instead it seems that his stress-free demeanour provides the foundation for the work he must do in the pool, and that the calming qualities of surfing or the ocean enable him to remain composed despite the intensity of racing and training. Aaron simply seems to be open to experiencing the experience, which allows him to appreciate whatever lifestyle surrounds him, whether that is his family, the Califomian coast, the pool, or the ranchlands of Texas. Just as Aaron's love of the ocean does not eclipse his newfound appreciation of Texas, his casual attitude should not disguise his work ethic. "I guess I am pretty laid back, and I relish that," says Aaron. "You can't take something like swimming too seriously or else it can become overbearing. It's important to obtain a balance, in and out of the pool. The beach was that for me in California, and here it's a combination of many things. For one thing, college swimming is much easier than 'traditional' swimming. College swimming is a team sport, and it's been nice swimming for someone else other than myself. It's easier to work toward your goals when those surrounding you have the same goals." Of course, on the surface, one would think that a swimmer who grew up on the beach and in the surf would grow parched and disenchanted by life in Texas, but Aaron Peirsol is not your average guy or typical swimmer. His thoughtfulness borders on pensiveness as he describes the landscape of Texas, which he says will blow your mind away. "Yes, I do miss the coast. But there are things here (in Texas) that I did not have in Orange County. I can drive 15 minutes out of town and see nothing but land. I never knew Texas was this green until I got here. It's beautiful here. We have a campsite we go to most of the time. It's right on the water, and we are surrounded by enormous trees. The open land is an attraction." Learning how to work Peirsol has adjusted well to the land and the ethos of Texas, indulging in all that life in Austin has to offer. "There are things I love here that I never thought I would, and I'm very glad I have this opportunity. The downtown life is also very unique. The live music and downtown culture give this town a light atmosphere. It actually reminded me more of California than any Califomiaschool I visited, if that makes any sense." He is, of course, quick to clarify, "But, again, I do miss the coast." Over die years, Aaron has also discovered what motivates him. 'T'veleamedittakestimetolearnhowtowork. Iused to be afraid of the work, but I've taught myself that there's Surf's up! Even in Texas Aaron gets to work on his surf skills using the Indo Board Balance Trainer really no need to be. The discomfort is all only temporary." Yet any mention of these core principles isoften downplayed by Aaron's wit. At a recent media summit in New York, reporters questioned Aaron about how he will contest the physical elements in Athens. His reply: "All that sun and heat and wind, being in the water — I mean, it almost sounds like leisure." Aaron says what he thinks and it seems more to do with the journey than anythingelse. Take, for instance, how he answered reporters' questions about the lack of roof in Athens, "I don't know, I like being out in the open like that. Certainly it adds to the uncertainty of the event. But for a backstroker, it can have an effect. That sun gets right in your face and you can lose track of where you are... I think I'd kind of welcome it. If there's anything that can make it a little more interesting, a little more fun, I'm for it. The more factors there are in a race, the more factors people have to worry about. The more a person who can really control his emotions will shine. Really good, headstrong athletes will overcome." Peirsol's talk of the "leisures" and "fun" of racing in Athens disguise his tenacious spirit and will to win, and likening him to Spicoli is a disservice to someone as resolute as Aaron. Make no mistake; Peirsol is anythingbut aslacker. Rather, it appears possible that his relaxed demeanour overshadows the manner in which he focuses his energy on training hard. "I'm pretty much the same guy at the beach or at the pool. My competitive nature only really comes out when it has to. I'm really not too competitive a person outside the pool. I get plenty of that in the pool. It's nice to be able to forget about the competitive nature of swimming and focus more on what you can do for fun." Despite his longing to focus on fun, his goals are high i and his hardware is impressive: an Olympic silver medal in the 200 back from Sydney, gold in 200 back at the 2001 Worlds followed by the long-course world record in 2002, another two golds in the 100 and 200 back at the 2003 Worlds, followed by the short-course world record in 2004. The only thing left: is individual gold in Athens. So how many does he want to win? "I'm hungry, but I know better than to gorge myself. I think to do what Lenny (Krazelburg) did in the last Olympics would be wonderful. To get three golds, both backs and the 4x100 medley relay, would be ideal. I'm also training for the 200 free right now, or I at least have it in my mind that I am. To be on the 4x200 free relay would be a dream. That would mean so much, and to take back that relay, which we lost to the Aussies, could top off my ' Olympics." But like his ability to find contentment in his natural environment, Aaron also relishes the magnitude of the Olympics themselves. "Other than that, I would honestly be happy just to go the Olympics again. To be in the birthplace of the Olympics and to compete in them will have this surreal historic feeling to it, for me. The Olympics is such a great thing. It brings the world together." Well before he had thoughts of four Olympic golds, Aaron had his sights set on fellow backstroker Lenny Krazelburg, who beat him in Sydney for the gold. But with Lenny injured, Aaron admitted to his local newspaper that he lost a bit of momentum, even "levellingoff" as he looked for something new to strive for. With Michael Phelps toying with the idea of swimming the 200 back in his quest for seven golds, Aaron now has it. "It has been good for Aaron to have Phelps chasing his tail," says his teammate Ian Crocker, who himself knows a thing or two about Phelps. "Aaron is the kind of person who sucks that up and turns it into power," Crocker said in the same report. Peirsol, in turn, looks to Crocker for guidance. "What Ian did was just annihilate the old record and come out of his skin," he told his local paper, referring to Ian s win over Phelps in the 100 By at last year's Worlds. "I think there is no question I 'm capable of doing something like that." He told another newspaper, "There's no way I would let him (Phelps) beat me." He has been true to his word so far. In 20 SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 the last two meetings, Peirsol has come out on top. beating Phelps in the 200 back at the last two SantaClara Invitationals. However, Aaron is not one to indulge in any negative hype. "I've never been one to talk trash; that's just not me. I'm not in the sport to make enemies. I would never put anyone down, especially through the media, and especially someone I have respect for." The family connection Peirsol is, however, willing to discuss some other personal things in the media. "I can be sarcastic or a little playful at times. That's who I am. Those things I say really are who I am. I like to keep the atmosphere light and I'm not ashamed of it." Aaron is, of course, referring to such tales as when he slept in at NCAAs and when he made silly faces at his little sister Hayley as she stood on the podium at last summer's Worlds. Then there is the time Hayley called the police on him when they were "having a disagreement" when she was 5 and he was 7, or how he would like to go to more rodeos because there are "cute girls at rodeos," and there is even the story of how he got food poisoning just prior to this year's NCAAs and "lost all body control." He adds, "I'm glad I've had those experiences. I think it's important for the person writing about you to really know who you are." One thing he does not joke about is his respect for his 19-year-old sister Hayley, who happens to be one of the best distance freestylers in the world. "I love Hayley to death. Since I left home, I've grown to miss her more and more. We have a growing relationship. We'll always be close and there is no rivalry whatsoever. She does her thing and I do mine." For Hayley, that means finishing up her first year at Auburn University after winning silver last year in the 1500 free at the Worlds. That medal made Hayley and Aaron the first two siblings to win medals at the same Worlds, but to repeat the feat in Athens, Hayley will have to beat two of the best 800 freestylers in the world to make the US Olympic team. Regardless, Aaron is herbiggest supporter. "Ifyouonlyknew how much I would love for her to make the team this year. I know it would mean so much to her. I would be so proud of her. But I would also be proud of her no matter what the outcome, because she has so many good qualities. Whether she makes it or not, she'll be my little Olympian." Turning pro Peirsol has decided to give up his final two years of eligibility Patrick Kramer QUICK FACTS: PEIRSOL, Aaron, USA BIRTHDATE 23 JUL 1983 PLACE Irvine, CA HEIGHT /WEIGHT 185 cm /90 kg EDUCATION Texas '06 CLUB Longhorn Aquatics COACH Eddie Reese • 2003 Worlds 1st 100-200 back, 1st 4x100 medley, 2nd 4x200 free • 2002 Pan Pacs 1st 100-200 back, 1st 4x100 medley • 2001 Worlds 1st 200 back • 2000 Olympics 2nd 200 back • 1999 Pan Ams2nd200 back LONG COURSE PROGRESSION YEAR Age 50 back 100 back 200 back 1997 14 2:05.42 1998 15 57.68 2:01.39 1999 16 56.55 1:59.75 2000 17 26.89 55.16 1:57.03 2001 18 26.63 54.80 1:56.56 2002 19 26.29 54.01 1:55.15 2003 20 25.47 53.61 1:55.82 2004 21 54.90 1:56.78 at Texas in order to turn pro, and his decision has been causing quite a buzz. With Aaron and other swimmers leaving the NCAA early, there has been some concern that athletes forgoing college for money might corrupt the competition level of college swimming in the US. But Aaron's love of swimming remains unwavering, and he says there is no need to worry. "No one is being corrupted. The competition level is showing no signs of levelling off. I'm one person who had the opportunity to go pro after high school, but I really wanted to swim for Texas for at least two years and that's what I ' ve done. Everyone that knew me had a pretty good idea of what I was doing, but it wasn't something I talked about." Aaron will remain at Texas to finish his degree and train under the tutelage of Eddie Reese, where Aaron has excelled for the last two years. However, when Aaron first arrived at Texas, Reese was a bit worried about both their potentials. "It scared me to death when he decided to come here," Reese told the local Austin newspaper. "His world record was sofast Ididn'tbelieveevenhecouiddo it again. Iwas worried I couldn't get him to go any faster, but that only lasted about three weeks, after 1 saw how hard he worked." Reese emphasized his position in Aaron's hometown paper. "He kills himself in practice," he said. However, Aaron is the first to give credit to the people who helped him develop that work ethic. "One of my coaches really taught me the importance of hard work. Dave (Salo) always said, 'Don't be afraid to be fast. ' It makes sense now and I apply that to every practice I do. That seems like one of the barriers that many people have trouble breaking." Aaron just mightbe the perfect swimmer. He is relaxed but tough, focused but balanced, and self-assured without being cocky. Plus he loves the water, telling one reporter, "Everything I do is based on the water and how much I love it. It's such a release to get out there." He is also the only swimmer in the world with his own professional surfing coach and he is active with the Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit organization working to preserve the oceans, waves, and beaches. The future While his near future holds the possibility of four golds, lucrative endorsement deals to go with his new Nike contract, and a few more years of college, his long-term future is also packed with mighty aspirations. "One of the greatest motivations is to stay on top. I've learned that it's one thing to chase someone and that it is entirely something else to be the onebeingchased.It'sharderbeingthechased. To go undefeated through 2008 is perhaps my main goal. That's what I want most of all." Aaron Peirsol just might be able to do it. He takes a month off every summer, keeping the balance in his life that will enable him to stay in the sport well beyond the day he first won Olympic silver at age 15. And, of course, knowing now that Aaron is anything but a "laid-back slacking surfer dude," his chances of that kind of greatness appear well within his reach. 200 free 1:48.88 1:50.78 SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 21 THE CONTINUING CRISIS USING HUMAN-RIGHTS TOOLS TO FIGHT DOPING A Closer Look at State-Sponsored Systematic Doping Programs Nikki Dryden [ftbere was a magic pill that could make you swim very fast, what would be the point of training? World sport, as we know it, is in trouble. Doping proliferates throughout every aspect of organized sport, from steroid use by high school footballers in the USA to erythropoietin (EPO) use by professional cyclists in France to Human Growth Hormone (HGH) use by swimmers in China to designer steroid use by track athletes in the USA and Great Britain. Doping can be defined as the administration or use of banned substances or methods to artificially enhance athletic performance. It encompasses everything from the use of steroid pre-cursors like Androstenedione (Andro) and designersteroids like tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) to methods like blood or gene doping. Doping not only undermines the value of sport, but it is life threatening to the athletes who do it. In 1999, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was created to promote doping-free sport and specifically to safeguard the health of athletes. While anti-doping efforts are seen as necessary to promote sport ethics and fair play, protecting athlete health is perhaps more important. The Ontario Court of Justice thought so, using athlete health as a rationale for issuing a life-time ban against Ben Johnson: "It is necessary to protect Mr. Johnson for the sake of his own health from the effects of consistently using prohibited substances." Categories of Doping Doping can be divided into two categories: individual athletes who dope for the rewards of winning, such as money and fame, and systematic doping, which when state-sponsored is part of a government plan to enhance the country's athletic success. Systematic doping may also refer to teams that systematically dope, such as professional cycling teams like Festina and Cofidis in France or the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) program in California. Those This article is a synopsis of a paper entitled: For International Power and Glory: Why Systematic State-Sponsored Doping Programs Violate the Human Dignity and Rights of the Athlete, written by Nikki Dryden for her international human rights law class. programs are systematic in that they are well organized and involve managers, trainers, coaches, doctors, and athletes who all profit from illegal doping. These athletes do not compete in sport for the love Doping not only undermines the value of sport, but it is life threatening to the athletes who do it of the game, but for motivations that corrupt the very essence of sport. Drug tests don't catch cheaters WADA uses drug tests to catch cheaters. But today, it is becoming ever more apparent that drug tests do not catch most of the dopers. These days, cheaters are often caught by state agencies and they are subsequently dealt with under domestic criminal law. Think of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan, who got caught by Australian customs officials at the Sydney airport with 13 vials of HGH, or the professional cycling team that was caught by French police with a carload of EPO. In some cases, drug-testing agencies receive a lucky break, like when a anonymous person sent a test tube of what turned out to be THG to the US Olympic drug testing lab and scientists were able to create a test to detect it before telling the cheaters. The US Internal Revenue Service, US Congress, and the US Anti-Doping Agency are also aiding the investigation into THG use at BALCO. Sadly, however, the cheaters are always one step ahead of the rest of us and that is why swimmers in the former East Germany (GDR) never got caught, and one of the reasons Chinese swimmers rarely get busted. While WADA appears to be working hard and law enforcement has begun to play a crucial role filling the gaps, there is another avenue we can use to combat systematic doping: by looking at the plight of swimmers in China and the GDR as victims instead of cheaters. State sponsored doping Systematic doping that is state-sponsored occurred in the GDR and is currently possibly happening in China and elsewhere. This type of systematic doping violates international sports law, but it can also be considered a human-rights violation, which warrants serious attention not just from sports bodies, but also by human-rights organizations. There are many factors that contribute to this charge, including the adverse health effects of doping, the implications doping has on an athlete's dignity, and the fact that it denies athletes, usually minors, from the ability of competing in sport freely and fairly. In addition to denying children the right to play, the right to the highest attainable standards of health, and the right not to be the victim of attacks upon one 's honour, systematic state-sponsored dopingconstitutes degrading treatment, all of which are prohibited by international human rights treaties to which China is a part)'. China's failure to act decisively to end systematic doping, investigate the practices and procedures of the military sport schools where athletes are trained, and punish anyone who engages in the systematic doping of minors constitutes a breach of China's international human-rights obligations. There is an obligation on all states to "protect the child against all other forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of the child's welfare," but this is not occurring in China or other nations that might be considered to systematically dope. For the world's athletes and coaches, looking at state-sponsored systematic doping as a human-rights violation requires a change in perspective of what it means to dope. For years we have labeled all dopers as cheaters and grown to disdain those we know are cheating, even when we cannot prove it. For those swimmers who do cheat of their own accord, be it for money orfame, these feelings are justifiable. However, there are instances and situations where swimmers as young as 14 are doped without their knowledge, and these swimmers are victims. State-sponsored systematic doping hurts everyone. Clean athletes who are beaten by athletes on drugs are denied their rightful place in history, while the athletes who are doped are subjected to majorphysical and psychological damage. Systematic doping is degrading, abusive, and exploitative of the athlete, and making governments responsible for the health of their athletes and accountable to international human-rights bodies is yet another tool to be used in the fight against doping. In order to understand this problem, you and I 22 SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 must leave behind our anger and strip away our bias against those we consider to have cheated. Instead, we must look at the individual swimmer in China, the 14-year-old girl who left her home and family at age 1 2 to attend a military-style sports school, isolated from the outside world, and even her own country. We must concentrate on what it must be like for that 14-year-old girl to be told the steroids she is given are vitamins and howshe truly believes hercoach because he has become her surrogate father. We must picture ourselves in her shoes as her body changes; not just the simple changes of puberty, but also the changes that steroids make to her body. We must imagine what it's like for her to have pubic hair grow over her abdomen, have her voice deepen, and her libido rage out of control. We must picture how painful her menstruation has become, especially after she begins to receive steroid injections at age 15. We must also picture her 1 5 years later, at age 30, when she tries to have a child of her own but the baby is born blind or with club feet. Maybe she has liver damage or breast cancer or is unable to even conceive a child of her own. All these problems are side effects of prolonged steroid use; the side effects also include heart disease, damage to organs including the kidney and gall bladder, tumors, testicular cancer, paralysis, severe acne, suicidal tendencies, eating disorders, miscarriages, deformed fetuses, and ovarian cysts. The side effects of HGH and EPO use, as well as blood and gene doping, are also harmful; however, it is not known howprevalent these practices are because there is currently no way to test for their abuse. In certain situations, it might be true that this girl has a choice or that she knows that what is happening is wrong. However, theChinese Constitution, as well as the laws that address sports, economic development, and access to the Internet, do not provide a legal frameworkforyoung athletes to know the truth oreven question authority about it. China's Sports Law takes a decentralized approach to sports administration, leaving the door wide open for officials at all levels to look the other way when it comes to doping. China's Human Rights Papers stress a focus on economic development as the basis for social development, meaning that political and civil rights take a back seat to economic development. Access to information and the Internet are severely restricted in China, so the chance is slim that a 14-year-old girl at a military sports school with no English language skills can access information on international sports laworthe world's anti-doping fight. Add all those laws to the Chinese Constitution, which says that the rights of citizens are not inherent but conferred by the state, and there is no doubt that the athlete's dignity or human rights will not be valued over and above the state's desire to win gold and international prestige. It may also be true that athletes who win receive benefits, such as national glory and financial rewards, that they believe far outweigh the denial of their basic health and human dignity. However, for every athlete who wins, thousands do not. There are over 260,000 students attending over 3,400 sports schools across China, so in imagining the life of a Chinese swimmer, we must also picture a different girl who does not win or find success. If she is a second-tier or third-tier athlete, she will be used as a guinea pig to test new drugs before they are given to the top-tier athletes. In another scenario, she may test positive or get caught by law enforcement carrying drugs outside of China for her coach and teammates. At this point her life is over; she is rejected by the sports body in her country, and sent back to her hometown in disgrace. Her life, once full of pride at being an elite swimmer, is now full of shame, and her dignity as a human being has been destroyed. She was never just For almost 30 years, the GDR systematically doped over 10,000 mostly (minors) athletes without their knowledge training and competing for the love of sport and the dream of winning gold; in fact, she was never just a girl or even a human being. Instead, she was used as a means to an end, as a way to bring national glory and international prestige to the state. In the Olympic Charter, the goal of Olympism is to place "sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to encouraging the establishment of a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity." Central to the concept of human di gnity is the notion of treating every human being as an end unto himself, not as a means to an end. However, when a state institutes a plan to unnaturally develop the performance of its minor athletes for the purpose of winning international acclaim, the athlete's human dignity is violated in its most basic sense. The East Germans China is not, of course, the only country that has systematically doped its athletes. In fact, GDR coaches and doctors schooled China even before the Berlin Wall began to crumble. It was the East German government who masterminded the concept of state-sponsored systematic doping. In 1974, they codified it into law with the passing of State Planning Theme 14.25, which outlined the state's systematic doping program and how to avoid detection from the world's new anti-doping scheme. For almost 30 years, the GDR systematically doped over 10,000 mostly (minors) athletes without their knowledge. In the last few years, over 140 athletes, mostly female swimmers, have found some justice in the German courts. The German government prosecuted and convicted those most responsible, including the chief of the GDR sports program, Manfred Ewald, and his head medical director, Manfred Hoppner. Both men were found guilty of willfully inflictingbodily harm on 142 female athletes, most of whom were minors. One doctor who testified during the trials said, "We were pressured into producing for the political leadership. We had to create international champions for the glory of the communist sporting machine." After the trials, GDR swimmer Carola Nitschke- Beraksschjan said, "It's terrifying what they did to us. I took up to 30 pills a day. They told us they were vitamins. There was no question you would not take them. You had to play by the rules. We were vehicles chosen to prove that socialism was better than capitalism. What happened to our bodies was entirely secondary to that political mission led by Ewald." Another swimmer, Martina Gottschalk, said, GDR MEDAL TOTALS 1954-89 Europe Championships (EC) from 1954 onwards Olympics (0G) from 1968 onwards World Championships (WC) from 1973 onwards Gold Silver Bronze Total 54 EC 2 0 0 2 58 EC 0 0 2 2 62 EC 3 1 6 10 66 EC 4 4 3 11 68 0G 2 3 1 6 70 EC 14 6 8 28 72 0G 2 5 2 9 Stasiput in charge of drug program 73 WC 13 6 9 28 74 EC 17 13 4 34 75 WC 11 7 5 23 76 0G 12 6 2 20 77 EC 13 10 6 29 78 WC 1 10 4 15 80 0G 10 9 7 26 81 EC 14 10 8 32 82 WC 12 10 5 27 83 EC 16 17 3 36 85 EC 16 16 5 37 86 WC 14 12 4 30 87 EC 17 11 8 36 88 0G 11 8 9 28 89 EC 15 8 7 30 Berlin wall comes down GDR women still hold 4x200 free world record from the 1987 European Championships SWIMNEWS / MAY-JUNE 2004 23 Under international law, a state is responsible for the act of officials or official bodies, national or local, even if the acts were not authorized by or known to the responsible national authorities "I can't forget what was done to me. Three times a day we had to swallow little blue pills with sweetened tea... We were told they were vitamins, but we were doped against our will." Olympic bronze-medal swimmer Christiane Knacke-Sommer's testimony at trial started out in typical fashion: "I was 15 when the pills started. The training motto at the pool was, 'You eat the pills or you die.' It was forbidden to refuse." However, the words she offered to describe her feelings today were particularly troubling. "They destroyed my body and my mind. They gave me those pills, the Oral Turinabol, which made me crazy and mined my body. They even poisoned my medal!" Then in the midst of her testimony, she stood up and threw her medal to the floor, crying, "It is tainted, poisoned with drugs and a corrupt system. It is worthless and a terrible embarrassment to all Germans." The Chinese problem It is common knowledge that GDR coaches and doctors helped China develop its systematic doping program, but while the GDR program had ended, China's continues to flourish. According to a self- identified former technician at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) accredited testing lab in Beijing, "Doping is a veritable institution in China, organized scientifically, and protected and hidden by the authorities. " Another man, a Chinese State Sports Commissioner insider, said, "Athletes normally do not know they are being given drugs. Only the chief coach and head coaches, as well as team doctors know who is being treated and who is not." Despite China's recent attempts to combat doping, they are ultimately responsible for the human rights abuses that are taking place against their minor athletes. A new approach against doping Unlike the former East German athletes, Chinese DRUG POSITIVES SINCE 1973 athletes will never find justice in China's domestic courts. Nor can we hope that actions taken by the Chinese government, who "takes the matter seriously," are sufficient. It is not enough for the Chinese government to "request" that individual sports associations, such as the Chinese swimming federation, workontheirown to end doping. Under international law, a state is responsible for the act of officials or official bodies, national or local, even if the acts were not authorized by or known to the responsible national authorities, indeed even if expressly forbidden by law, decree, or instruction. China, or any other country now or in the future, that systematically dopes or allows it to occur at a lower level or within a sports association, school, or club, can be found to have violated this international human- rights norm. For swimmers and coaches around the world, upholding the human rights of China's athletes may not be a top priority. However, the doping problem is serious, not only for the harm it causes to athletes, but because of its pervasiveness. To combat this problem, we need to surround it from all sides. WADA, the IOC, and FINAcannot combat it alone. Law enforcement around the world is beginning to understand the problem, but many nations are not interested in fighting this problem in their criminal justice systems. We need to use the world's human- rights instruments to fight this problem, to help those being violated and for the sake of our sport. What does using international human- rights tools entail? It means encouraging United Nations Positives Countries 1 44 China 2 14 Unied States 3 10 Soviet Union/Russia 4 8 Great Britain 5 7 Spain 6 6 France 7 5 Australia 5 Italy 9 4 Austria 4 Greece 11 3 Belgium 3 Brazil 3 Canada 3 Poland 3 South Africa 3 Syria 3 Ukraine 18 2 Croatia 2 Cyprus 2 Germany 2 Mexico 2 New Zealand 23 1 Argentina 1 Belarus 1 Costa Rica 1 Ecuador 1 Egypt 1 Finland 1 Hungary 1 Indonesia 1 Ireland 1 Latvia 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Romania 1 Singapore 1 Slovakia 1 Slovenia 1 Switzerland 1 Tunisia Total 40 countries Positives with no sanction 2 Netherlands 1 Greece No show due to retirement 1 United States No GDR swimmers ever tested positive during 1973-89 organs such as the UN Commission on Human Rights, the UN Commission for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the UN Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization, which oversees sport, to conduct on-site visits in China. FINA did this twice in the 1990s, only to return after several days of meetings with officials (neverwith athletes) to say that they could find no evidence of systematic doping in China. Clearly they were incapable or unwilling to find evidence of this abuse and need the help of a skilled human- rights organization to uncover the truth. Since testing began in 1972, China has had 44 swimmers sanctioned by FINA. All those have come since 1990, and the total is three times higher than either of the next two countries, the USA and the USSR/Russia. It is time to ask for help. Sport plays aunique role in advancing human rights. To allow state-sponsored human-righ ts violations tocontinue when we have seen the devastating effects on the women of East Germany would dishonour the role sport has played to further human rights in the past. The crucial role played by the international sports community in ending apartheid in South Africa is an excellent example. The Olympic Charter itself emphasizes the importance of fair play and the belief that "the practice of sport is a human right." Yet rewarding China with the 2008 Olympics when it continues to support such a system is paramount to universal acceptance of these abuses and in contravention to the Olympic Charter. Using athletes to prove the superiority of asocialistorcommunist regime is antithetical to international human rights and international sports law. Finally, we must act today. The UN has declared 2005 as the International Year of Sport and Physical Education. The UN has invited governments to organize events displaying their commitment to promoting education, health, development, and peace as it connects with sport. With China hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, there is a finite period of time during which pressure can be applied on the Chinese government to take responsibility and make changes W e will not have any leverage after 2008. and it will be too late to reclaim oursport and the health of thousands of young athletes. 24 SWIMNEWS I MAY-JUNE 2004 Name Address City Postal / Zip Code Credit Card # Expiry Date visa □ Subscription Form Prov/State Country Canada Cdn $ 35 □ USA US $ 35 □ International US $ 45 □ You may pay be cheque in Canada and the USA SwimNews 356 Sumach Street Toronto, Ontario M4X 1V4 CANADA Place in envelope and mail to above address BOOK REVIEW The Performance Zone By John Ivy, Ph.D., and Robert Portman, Ph.D 134 pages, US$17.50 Basic Health Publications, Inc., North Bergen, NJ Nikki Dryden The Performance Zone is not the latest diet plan trying to compete with the Zone, Atkins, or South Beach, nor is it just another sports nutrition book for athletes. Rather The Performance Zone focuses on the most crucial period of the day for any swimmer: 30 minutes prior to workout, during workout, and 1 5 minutes after workout. Basically, this book is about winning, keeping healthy, and getting an edge over the competition. The authors call it the 30W15 rule and set out to show the reader why timing is everything when it comes to preparingfor, performing in, and recovering from workouts and racing. 30W15 stands for starting | your nutrient intervention 30 minutes prior to exercise, continuing it through the entire workout, and consuming your recovery nutrition within 15 minutes of getting out of the pool. The book follows an easy-to-read and easy-to- comprehend format with graphs and charts that illustrate both simple and more complex concepts. It starts by taking you through the basics of how our muscles work, then from energy production through muscle fatigue, and even to muscle damage. Next, it walks you through pre-workout eating, workout nutrient intake, and post-workout nutrient consumption in order to prepare the body for workout, to limit dehydration, electrolyte loss, muscle damage, and suppression of the immune system, all so that you can set the stage for a faster recovery. In between major chapters are shorter segments that focus on topics such as fueling the young athlete, fuelingthefemaleathlete,coldandsicknessprevention, and improving body composition. The authors then help you create your own nutrition action plan based on your personal exercise level. They teach you how to compute your total caloric expenditure, calculate your fluid and carbohydrate needs during workout, establish your fueling schedule, and determine your nutrient and fluid needs post-exercise. About 20 pages are dedicated to sport-specific nutrition tips, includingtwo pages written by five-time Olympic medallist swimmer Josh Davis. Other sports include soccer, running, hockey, and skiing, making the book a great purchase for a multi-sport family. The final portion of the book quickly runs through a few supplements that are useful for athletes, as well as several illegal and harmful drugs. But one of the best pages contains a chart entitled "Are all sports drinks the same?" which outlines the nutritional values of almost 20 popular drinks from water to Gatorade to Coke. At $17.50, this book is the best investment any coach, parent, or swimmer can make today in order toensureabetterperformance tomorrow. Dr. Portman emphasizes the importance of instillinggood habits in children as young as 10, so it is never too early to start. "These habits should begin very young. For example, teachingkids the importance of drinking fluids and not relying on their thirst mechanism to tell them when I to drink is a primary lesson. I am not I talking about making a kid into an | Olympic athlete, but whatever their I potential, they shouldn't be limited by what they consume. Nutrition is the easiest thing that we do every day, and building strong habits now is crucial." The authors do a great job of laying out the basics, breaking down myths, andshowinghowsmallchoices can bring huge improvements in a swimmer's ability to trainer harder and faster. But whatever you do, do not dismiss this book just because you think you know what you are doing. I thought I knew a fair amount about nutrition and training, but in speaking with the author, I realized just how misled I had become over the years. My ideas about Gatorade and sugar consumption, the role protein plays during workout, and losing weight were very, very wrong. I always thought that sports drinks were bad for you because of all the sugar they contained. However, Dr. Portman explained that you have to consume different nutrients during a workout than you otherwise would consume during the day. "When you are sitting on the couch, there is nothing happening to your body equivalent to what happens to it in the pool, so during the period of the exercise interval, simple sugars are what you need. Your muscles are starved, since they have a small amount of energy within them. The harder you train, the shorter it lasts, so you have to replenish it quickly." Consuming a sports drink during your workout will help ensure that your muscle glycogen does not get depleted, or at least it will help to delay it. "You won 't replenish everything that you are burning up in a workout, because you burn it up faster than your gut can take in. But you can delay it." The role of protein in this area is crucial. "If you add protein to the sports drink, you increase the ability of the carbohydrate to get into the muscle cell and spare glycogen." Studies have also shown that carbohydrate-protein sports drinks improve endurance, quicken recovery, and decrease muscle damage. As a female swimmer, I was always obsessing about my weight. I purposely did not eat before morning workout and tried not to eat for as long after workout as possible, thinking that by doing so, I would burn more fat. Boy, was I wrong. "A big problem with female athletes is that they starve themselves, and what happens is that later in the season, they are more susceptible to colds and injury, and their performance actually goes down. Every study done on what athletes eat in a 24-hour period post-exercise, whether they eat directly after or several hours later, it is found that they eat the same amount of calories. So if you are going to eat it later, you don't get a deficit, but by not havingeaten those calories in that 15-minute window after exercise, you lose the anabolic advantages of that window. Timing is critical." Dr. Portman emphasizes the importance of educatingcoaches in this area, since they play a crucial role in athlete health. "This is not about nutrition, it's about winning. It's about techniques that you can use to get an edge over someone else, and it's about not gettingpassed in the last 10 yards of a race orpetering out in multiple events. If coaches are concerned about these things, if they are concerned about making sure their athletes don't get injured, then this is important. Remember, this is about winning, keeping healthy, and getting an edge." Unfortunately, there are still coaches today that think withholding water or sports drinks from their athletesduringworkoutwill toughen them up. Instead, this behaviourends up limiting the athlete. According to Dr. Portman, your body will reach a plateau as you lose water and muscle glycogen in a workout because there is insufficient recovery taking place as your muscle protein breaks down. "You can't build beyond that point, and it results in classic over-training syndrome; the harderyou train, you just don't seem to improve. The whole purpose of training is to improve your training level, have a strong workout, and come back the next day and be stronger." Withholdingwaterorsportsdrinkduringworkout actually teaches the athlete to train worse. "It is not a question of training, but simple thermodynamics. You build up heat and that has to do with the laws of physics. If you don't maintain a certain body temperature, your cardio will decline and you don't want to do that because you are still performing at the same energy level. Instead, you are also training yourself to train at a lower level." So when athletes say they are going to a hot climate to train themselves to deal with the heat or humid environments, can they actually do that? "You won't change your body's thermodynamic mechanisms, but you can change your body's ability to consume water. How you adapt to that type of environment is to consume more fluids and you can train your gut to consume more fluids while you are exercising." The Performance Zone is a must-have for any swimmer, coach, or parent lookingfor the edge, be that in training or racing. We all suffer from the onslaught of messages in the media about nutrition, dieting, and supplementing to win. But if you are concerned about increasing your endurance and strength, reducing injuries and muscle soreness, accelerating recovery after training and competition, and reducing your chance of catching colds, then you need to read this book. Swimmers pound up and down the pool for hours a day and tens of thousands of metres a week. If you want information that is specific for your needs, then this resource will be invaluable. The Performance Zone is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and at GNC stores. Your Nutrition Arlion Plan tor GfMlrr M.'tur m><- if Sports P«fornun