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He’s a multi-time World champion and has captured titles at the Pan Pacs, Asian Games and World University Games. Yet it seems that the 25-year-old there will be no round-number anniversary of Daiya Seto from Japan should be celebrated on a grander scale. As the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo quickly approach, Seto—a what Australian Dawn Fraser accomplished 56 double gold medalist in the IMs and a silver medalist in the 200 fly at the wangG ju World Championships—will have the years earlier in 1964. Rather, it is the site of the opportunity to shine in his homeland and finally receive his proper due. (See feature, page 30.) [PHOTO BYDELLY CARR] Olympiad that resonates. As Tokyo prepares to host the world’s finest athletes, it also serves as the place where Fraser became the first swimmer ever to win Olympic gold in the same event at TRAINING three consecutive Games—a feat that, even COACHING now, is wildly difficult to comprehend. 010 LESSONS WITH THE LEGENDS: 013 DRYSIDE TRAINING: BUILDING KAREN MOE HUMPHREYS LEAN MUSCLE 030 IT’S TIME FOR SOME RESPECT by J.R. Rosania by Michael J. Stott by John Lohn For someone to boast four World titles and seven individual medals from the World 014 SWIMMING TECHNIQUE JUNIOR SWIMMER Championships, the instant assumption is that CONCEPTS: SHOULDER INJURY he stands out as one of the biggest names in the PREVENTION FOR THE FREESTYLE 042 GOLDMINDS: BUILDING A TEAM sport. Sure, Japan’s Daiya Seto is respected by ARM ENTRY OF GREAT SWIMMING PARENTS his rivals and generally around the pool, but his by Rod Havriluk by Wayne Goldsmith exploits are greater than the recognition that has Every team’s injury management plan should When given the opportunity to understand the been given. include strategies to address the freestyle arm importance of their role and their influence, entry and prevent shoulder injury. Major benefits swimming parents can become the most 034 FASTER THAN EVER also include increasing the index of coordination powerful, positive force in their child’s life. by David Rieder and, thereby, increasing swimming velocity. 054 UP & COMERS: Heading into the 2020 Olympics, a young KEATON JONES American sprint corps has turned the United 016 A CASE FOR HIGH SCHOOL by Shoshanna Rutemiller States into heavy gold-medal favorites in both SWIMMING: ALL FOR ONE, ONE the 100 free and 400 free relay. However, the FOR ALL real contest will come at the U.S. Trials, where by Michael J. Stott COLUMNS& Olympic hopefuls must get through a cutthroat The verdict is unanimous: high school swimming SPECIAL SECTIONS gauntlet of speed in order to earn their spots adds immeasurable value to the career and for Tokyo. experience of a young athlete. 008 A VOICE FOR THE SPORT 009 BEYOND THE YARDS 038 THE NEW “KIDS” ON THE BLOCK 051 Q&A WITH COACH TERRY JONES by Craig Lord by Michael J. Stott 018 DID YOU KNOW? MARTHA This month marks the beginning of a new era in NORELIUS swimming with the unveiling of the International Swimming League, featuring a new and 052 HOW THEY TRAIN KAITLYNN 019 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE SIMS AND LILLIE NORDMANN dynamic format of swimming that includes a 044 PREP SCHOOL DIRECTORY global Pro-Team tour with some of the world’s by Michael J. Stott greatest swimmers in action. 055 GUTTERTALK 056 PARTING SHOT SWIMMING WORLD MAGAZINE (ISSN 0039-7431). Note: permission to reprint articles or excerpts from contents is prohibited without permission from the OCTOBER 2019 publisher. The publisher is not responsible for errors in advertisements. Microfilm copies: available from University Microfilms, 313 N. First St., Ann Arbor, MI 6 SWIMMINGWORLD.COM 48103. Swimming World Magazine is listed in the Physical Education Index. Printed in the U.S.A. © Sports Publications International October 2019. It's about TIME FORm SWIM GOGGLES Swim goggles with a smart display. See the metrics you need in the moment. Take contol of your swim. EE SHIPPING w.ww.for.mswi m.com A VOICE FOR THE SPORT THE WORLD CUP IS DEAD! BY CRAIG LORD PUBLISHING, CIRCULATION AND ACCOUNTING Do you doubt the headline of this article? www.SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Then enter these old-timers into today’s World Cup pool to see how they would place: Publisher, CEO - Brent T. Rutemiller Pam Kruse, Martha Randall, Debbie Meyer, Karen Moras, Shane Gould, Shirley Babashoff, [email protected] Karen Muir, Catie Ball, Cathy Carr, Galina Prozumenschikova, Ada Kok, Donna de Varona, Editor-in-Chief - Craig Lord Claudia Kolb. And on the men’s side: Alain Mosconi, Greg Charlton, Mark Spitz through [email protected] Hans Fassnacht, Gunnar Larsson, Tom McBreen, Brad Cooper, Kurt Krumpholz, Rick Associate Editor-in-Chief - John Lohn DeMont, Michael Burton, Roland Matthes, John Hencken, David Wilkie, Kevin Berry, [email protected] Gary Hall, Dick Roth to András Hargitay and other pacesetters of the Class of the ’60s and Operations Manager - Laurie Marchwinski early ’70s. [email protected] “Hey, old-timers, take a look: half a century hence, your times are going to be good for Marketing Director - Brandi West a place in a final at a ‘World Cup’ in a level-deck pool with lane lines, blocks, goggles, full- [email protected] Production Editor - Taylor Brien time professional training programs and coaches, sports scientists and more—all part of an [email protected] arsenal of performance-powering progress. What d’ya think?” Circulation/Membership - Ivonne Schmid Cue virtual belly laughs of the greats for the very real belly flop that FINA has allowed [email protected] the World Cup to become. Accounting - Marcia Meiners An overlay circa 1969/2019 might be mistaken for satire: results at the latest round of the [email protected] FINA World Cup in Singapore would have had Shane Gould and Mark Spitz, heroes of the 1972 Olympics, still in vogue on the clock. EDITORIAL, PRODUCTION, ADVERTISING, MARKETING AND MERCHANDISING OFFICE Tick, tock: Gould, 1973—sixth in the women’s 1500; Spitz, 1967 and the first world 2744 East Glenrosa Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85016 record of his career—fourth in the men’s 400 free. Take Australians and a handful of others Toll Free: 800-511-3029 out of the pool, and you have a local youth gala...not a World Cup. Phone: 602-522-0778 • Fax: 602-522-0744 www.SwimmingWorldMagazine.com In 2019, the event title is only true because all 200-plus FINA member nations may show up if they wish, regardless of whether the swimmers are traveling at the pace of the EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION 1960s—60 years on as we approach 2020 and Tokyo comes into view as an Olympic city 56 [email protected] years beyond de Varona, Schollander & Co. Senior Editor - Bob Ingram What went wrong after all the promise of cars parked on deck as prizes at the start of [email protected] a new “pro-era” in pools on a European circuit in the 1980s? This: FINA took over from Managing Editor - Dan D’Addona 1988—and evolution stopped at allowing swimmers to receive pay. The program stayed, [email protected] and grew and grew. Design Director - Joseph Johnson A complex points system was compounded by an insistence on towing the entire six-, Historian - Bruce Wigo then seven-, now eight-day World Championship program into the Cup’s two-day meets, Staff Writers - Michael J. Stott, David Rieder, while the globetrotting that was required of swimmers deterred participation because of Shoshanna Rutemiller, Andy Ross, cost and energy (including the carbon footprint kind of late).