Swimming World April Issue Is Now Available At 12, Dana Vollmer was the youngest participant at the 2000 Olympic Trials. At 16, Vollmer qualified for the Olympic team and won gold in Athens as part of the 4 x 200 free relay. At 20, she failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympic team. At 24, she won three gold medals in London and became the first woman to break the 56-second barrier in the 100 fly with her winning WR time of 55.98. Now 28—as a wife and mom of a one-year-old boy, Arlen—Dana will be looking to make her third U.S. Olympic team. (See feature, page 26.) Total Access Members Can Login To My Account and Download Now! Not a subscriber? Swimming World Magazine gives you unlimited access to all online content on SwimmingWorldMagazine.com and access to all of the back issues of Swimming World Magazine dating back to 1960! To Access everything in the Swimming World Magazine Vault Subscribe With This Special Offer! MAGAZINE FEATURES: 016 TOP 9 OLYMPIC UPSETS: #4 SANDY NEILSON— THE LAST AMERICAN by Chuck Warner Sixteen-year-old Sandy Neilson was the third fastest American in the women’s 100 free to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team in 1972. When she got to Munich, she also had to race world record holder Shane Gould. No matter: Neilson won the event… and with that upset victory nearly 44 years ago, she is now “The Last American” woman to be crowned the outright Olympic champion in the 100 freestyle. 019 2015 TOP 12 WORLD MASTERS SWIMMERS OF THE YEAR by Jason Marsteller, Annie Grevers, Seren Jones, Sophia Chang and Hideki Mochizuki 026 MOMMA ON A MISSION by Annie Grevers Dana Vollmer is many things: Olympic gold medalist, former world record holder in the women’s 100 fly, wife, mom, daughter, swimming enthusiast—and after retiring from the sport after the London Olympics and giving birth to a son, Arlen, in March 2015, the 28-year-old is back in the pool and has her eyes set on Rio. 030 HISTORIC SURPRISES AT U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS: GABE WOODWARD’S OLYMPIC PRAYER by Chuck Warner After Gabe Woodward graduated from USC in 2001, it seemed that his swimming career was over. For nearly two years, he didn’t race or train. But his strong faith brought him back to the sport in 2003. He prayed that he would be able to honor the Lord by humbly fulfilling the potential he had been given as an athlete. With that prayer, his dream of making the 2004 U.S. Olympic team began to unfold. 033 MENTAL PREP: BEFORE THE BEEP WITH JOSH SCHNEIDER by Annie Grevers Josh Schneider narrowly missed making the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. This is when Schneider started what he called, “building a new me.” And he’s been under construction ever since. 036 NUTRITION: AROUND THE TABLE WITH NATALIE COUGHLIN by Annie Grevers and Tasija Korosas Pull up a chair at Natalie Coughlin’s training table, and discover a sample daily menu in the iconic Olympian’s words. Swimming World’s nutrition guru, Tasija Karosas, provides the nutritional explanations. COACHING 010 LESSONS WITH THE LEGENDS: FORBES CARLILE by Michael J. Stott 014 SWIMMING TECHNIQUE MISCONCEPTIONS: SWIM THROUGH THE PAIN (Part II) by Rod Havriluk A common misconception is that it is necessary to “swim through the pain” to optimize performance. Whether a swimmer suffers shoulder pain from conditioning or injury, continuing normal training can negatively impact technique (and performance). This article presents the characteristic technique elements that stress the shoulder on butterfly and freestyle to help swimmers and coaches identify problems before they become injuries. 041 Q&A WITH COACH BRAD SHIVELY by Michael J. Stott 042 HOW THEY TRAIN REED DALTON by Michael J. Stott TRAINING 039 DRYSIDE TRAINING: MEDICINE BALL AND STRETCH CORDS WORKOUT by J.R. Rosania JUNIOR SWIMMER 045 UP & COMERS by Taylor Brien COLUMNS 008 A VOICE FOR THE SPORT 038 MOMS AT MEETS 046 GUTTER TALK 048 PARTING SHOT To unsubscribe from emails like this, click here. |