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Question of the Week - September 28, 2007

Posted by Barbara Hummel on Sep 28, 2007 08:00AM (1,665 views)
DESCRIBE THE IMAGE Let us know how YOU would answer the following [b]Question of the Week[/b].

[b] Which coach has had the most influence on your swimming career, and why?[/b]

Thanks, Gretchen, for sending this week's question!

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Responded Sep 28, 2007 01:50PM

Chris MacCurdy of ATAC in Dallas. I swam for him when he built the dynasty at City of Plano in the 80s. Chris led by example, challenging you to be the best you can be. He was (and is) a very involved coach on deck, never missing an opportunity to make subtle corrections to technique, always encouraging before, during, and after practices and meets. Thanks, Chris!
Responded Sep 29, 2007 08:33AM

Coach Dennis Davis, now of Center Grove Aquatics in Indiana, is without a doubt
the person that most impacted my swimming career.

Coach Davis came to my small swim club in rural southern Delaware when I was a
senior in high school. My parents had just separated, and so my dad was out of
the picture more or less, and I was in need of personal guidance as well as
swimming guidance. Coach Davis was there for me, took me out to breakfast
after morning workout sometimes, gave me a job as a lifeguard, and would sit
around in the office, sometimes late into the evening (when his wonderful wife
Paula probably would have wanted him home) talking to me, telling me stories
about his growing up in Indiana, college, and offering me all manner of
guidance. He was someone who I looked up to then and now. As a coach, he
epitomized the kind of person I wanted to become: he kept himself in fantastic
shape (went like 1:02 in the 100 breast in his mid-late 40s), woke up in the
morning without an alarm clock to be at AM practice, built swim resistance
trainers (our team could not afford commercial ones) out of milk crates, rope,
pullies, and scuba weights, and helped me to place in the state championships.

I still keep in touch with him, and a google this morning revealed that he was
named Indiana swimming age group coach of the year.

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