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MISCONCEPTIONS: INDIVIDUAL Magazine will bring you its top 9 upsets in DIFFERENCES the individual events in Olympic history— by Rod Havriluk with an emphasis on the last 50 years. 026 THE TIME IS RIGHT by Annie Grevers A common misconception is that each Last year, 21-year-old individual swimmer will optimize perfor- Kelsi Worrell broke mance with a unique technique. This is American records, led simply not the case. Any potential benefit 016 Team USA at the Pan-Amer- from an individualized technique is trivial ican Games, and was even compared to an individual’s compliance part of a world record-setting with a science-based model. relay! She couldn’t have asked for better timing to have such a 020 HOW TO SWIM THE 200 FREE breakout year...especially with Rio by Michael J. Stott on the horizon. Coaches of high school, college, YMCA and USA Swimming club teams share 030 AROUND THE TABLE: their training philosophies for an event HOW OLYMPIC GOLD that requires a real combination of speed, MEDALIST TYLER CLARY endurance and technique. FUELS by Annie Grevers , Caroline 042 Q&A WITH COACH Kosciusko and Tasija Korosas DENNIS PURSLEY Here are some meals that have by Michael J. Stott been served up lately at Tyler Clary’s house, along with some nutritional 043 HOW THEY TRAIN explanations from Swimming World’s CONNOR OSLIN 026 nutrition guru, Tasija Karosas. by Michael J. Stott COACHING TRAINING 010 LESSONS WITH THE 023 DRYSIDE TRAINING: LEGENDS: PETER DALAND CROSS TRAINING WITH FULL by Michael J. Stott BODY EXERCISES by J.R. Rosania 013 IN-SEASON, RACE-SPECIFIC SETS JUNIOR SWIMMER by Michael J. Stott Coach Eddie Reese of Texas shares two sets 045 UP & COMERS that are designed to produce plenty of lactate, by Taylor Brien while Coach Allison Beebe of Santa Clara Swim Club provides sets that focus on breathing pat- COLUMNS terns and racing strategies. 008 A VOICE FOR THE SPORT ON THE COVER 032 2016 SWIM CAMP At last year’s NCAAs, University of Louisville’s Kelsi Worrell became the first woman in history to DIRECTORY break 50 seconds in the 100 yard butterfly—and she did it twice! After breaking Natalie Coughlin’s 13-year-old American record (50.02) in prelims with a 49.89, Kelsi (now a senior) won finals in 046 GUTTER TALK 49.81. With the butterflyer’s career blossoming—two gold medals and a silver at last summer’s Pan-Am Games plus being a part of a world record-setting relay at December’s Duel in the Pool— 048 PARTING SHOT the 21-year-old’s sights are now set on making the U.S. Olympic team. (See story, page 26.) [PHOTO BY PETER H. BICK] SWIMMING WORLD MAGAZINE (ISSN 0039-7431). Note: permission to reprint articles or excerpts from contents is prohibited without permission from the publisher. The publisher is not responsible for errors in advertisements. Microfilm copies: available from University Microfilms, 313 N. First St., Ann Arbor, MI 48103. Swimming World Magazine is listed in the Physical Education Index. Printed in the U.S.A. © Sports Publications International, February 2016. 6 SWIMMING WORLD MAGAZINE / February 2016 A VOICE for the SPORT SWIMMING IN MEMOIRS BY CASEY BARRETT PUBLISHING, CIRCULATION AND ACCOUNTING www.SwimmingWorldMagazine.com The athlete memoir can be a dubi- lumbia University swimmer, Constantine Chairman of the Board, President - Richard Deal [email protected] ous genre. Usually, it comes on the heels Markides. Publisher, CEO - Brent T. Rutemiller of some mighty achievement or as a swan Like Torres, Ervin has a story with some [email protected] song to a proud career. 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You’ll EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION pian... the list goes on) to tomes devoted find an Olympic champion who was once [email protected] to female swimmers who have overcome remembered as much for abandoning his Senior Editor - Bob Ingram a variety of obstacles—from age to eating talent—before he found it again, and re- [email protected] disorders to injuries to drug tests. These in- turned a decade later to reclaim his status as Managing Editor - Jason Marsteller clude Dara Torres’ Age Is Just a Number; the fastest man through water. [email protected] Amanda Beard’s In the Water They Can’t Ervin’s story isn’t over. At the 2014 Assistant Managing Editor - Annie Grevers See You Cry; Natalie Coughlin’s Golden U.S. Nationals, he was the oldest competi- [email protected] Girl; and most recently, Jessica Hardy’s tor at the meet—where, at 33, he won the Graphic Designers - Emmi Brytowski, Joe Johnson Swimming Toward the Gold Lining. national title in the 50 free. 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Middle East: Baruch “Buky” Chass, Ph.D. (ISR) given—a drama-filled life swirling around Just let Anthony Ervin tell you his South Africa: Neville Smith (RSA) South America: Jorge Aguado (ARG) the Olympics is hardly the ideal prepara- story... tion. PHOTOGRAPHERS/SWTV This spring, there will be a new entry Casey Barrett Peter H. Bick, USA Today Sports Images, Reuters, Getty Images in this swimmer’s library: Anthony Er- Senior Commentator vin’s Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olym- pian, penned with friend and former Co- OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF: ENDORSED BY: PUBLISHER: P.O.