SWIM-SPECIFIC CROSS TRAINING n WATER POLO: USC MEN STILL CHAMPS AUSSIES REVEL IN GREAT SWIMMING TRADITION See page 7 FEBRUARY 2011 —VOLUME 52 NO. 2 A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER page 10 “The daily news of swimming” Check us out online at: www.SwimmingWorldMagazine.com $3.95 USA • $4.50 CAN Swimsense™ PERFORMANCE MONITOR Make Sense of Your Swim The new FINIS Swimsense Performance Monitor automatically captures your swim data. Check important stats while you swim then upload your data to the Swimsense Online Log™. 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INSIDE THIS ISSUE of 7 10 14 22 7 INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: Australia by Jason Marsteller Since Seoul hosted the Olympics in 1988, Australia has won 22 gold, 28 sil- ver and 25 bronze medals for a total of 75 Olympic medals in the past six Olympiads. 10 A SHINING LIGHT by John Lohn DEPARTMENTS : More than two years after what some consid- 6 A VOICE ON THE COVER : ered a disappointing performance at the Beijing for the SPORT Olympics—three medals, but no gold—Katie Hoff After failing to make has re-emerged as a shining light on the American 34 CAMP DIRECTORY USA’s 2009 World swim scene. 42 FOR THE RECORD Championship 12 DEFINING MOMENTS: End-of-Year 45 CALENDAR team, Katie Hoff, 21, Short Course Championships by Jason Marsteller changed clubs and The FINA Short Course World Championships was 46 PARTING SHOT the premier competition as the year 2010 came to coaches, and is, once a close. Earlier in December, the United States held again, enjoying the national championships for both its senior and junior swimmers. sport...and life. Cover 14 THREE-PEAT FOR USC by Emily Sampl snipe: (from left) The University of Southern California Trojans defeated Cal, 12-10, in overtime Australia’s winning to capture their third straight men’s NCAA water polo championship. women’s 400 medley 16 LANE LEADERS: Karen Andrus-Hughes, Oregon Masters by Emily Sampl relay at the Beijing 17 DRYSIDE TRAINING: Cross Training (Part II) by J.R. Rosania 2008 Olympics— This month’s exercises focus on functional, swim-specific strength exercises that incorporate medicine balls, dumbbells and tubing to increase resistance in the Jessicah Schipper, exercises. Leisel Jones, Emily 19 Q&A WITH COACH KIRK SANOCKI, WINGATE UNIVERSITY by Michael J. Stott Seebohm and Lisbeth Kirk Sanocki has guided the Wingate University Bulldog men and women to Trickett (in water). national prominence among NCAA Division II schools, and is currently serving (See respective stories, as president-elect of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. pages 10 and 7.) 21 HOW THEY TRAIN: Mason Norman and Nicole Moody by Michael J. Stott 22 USSSA: A Thank You Note to the Grown-Ups in Swimmers’ Lives [COVER PHOTO BY PETER H. BICK; SNIPE PHOTO BY DAVID GRAY, by Rose Cholewinski REUTERS] 24 NATIONAL AGE GROUP RECORD SETTERS: Mission Viejo Nadadores 13-14 Boys 800 Meter Freestyle Relay 25 AMERICAN RELAY by Judy Jacob 27 TYR AGE GROUP SWIMMER OF THE MONTH: Erika Giuse, Nashville Aquatic Club (Tennessee) 28 NAG TOP 10 (LONG COURSE) 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. 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