USOPC Hall of Fame Elects Natalie Coughlin, Michael Phelps, Trischa Zorn-Hudson, 1976 Relay Three swimmers and a relay are among the the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame (USOPC), Class of 2022. Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin, Trischa Zorn-Hudson and the 1976 women’s 4×100 freestyle relay have been elected. The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) today announced the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame, Class of 2022, which will be honored and inducted in a ceremony held Friday, June 24, at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs. The class of 2022 is made up of eight individuals, two teams, two legends, one coach and one special contributor. The inductees include Natalie Coughlin (swimming), Muffy Davis (Para alpine skiing and Para-cycling), Mia Hamm (soccer), David Kiley (Para alpine skiing, Para track and field, and wheelchair basketball), Michelle Kwan (figure skating), Michael Phelps (swimming), Lindsey Vonn (alpine skiing), Trischa Zorn-Hudson (Para swimming), the 1976 Women’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay Swimming Team, the 2002 Paralympic Sled Hockey Team, Gretchen Fraser (legend: alpine skiing), Roger Kingdom (legend: track and field), Pat Summitt (coach: basketball) and Billie Jean King (special contributor). |
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Marc Middleton: Change Your Mind, Change Your Body |
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| Marc Middleton, best-selling author, world record-setting masters swimmer and founder of Growing Bolder media, believes that how we age is most affected by our mindset. If we don't buy into the negative image around aging we can achieve anything we set our minds to.
Marc is on a mission to change the way society views the aging process through his media company, Growing Bolder. Marc joins Kelly and Maria to talk about his passion for changing conversations about aging in America and how he became such a champion himself. |
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Kelsi Dahlia Joins Notre Dame as Associate Coach Olympic gold medalist and recently retired Kelsi Dahlia has joined the staff at Notre Dame as an associate coach. Dahlia swam for new Notre Dame head coach Chris Lindauer, hired in April, during her stellar career at the Louisville. Associate head coach Kameron Chastain also coached with Lindauer in Louisville. “I’m very thankful to Chris and the administration at Notre Dame for the opportunity and honor of coaching at this historic university,” Dahlia said in a Notre Dame press release. “I’m so grateful for the lessons I’ve learned as a swimmer, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to take those experiences into this coaching role. I’m looking forward to supporting the student-athletes at the highest level, both academically and athletically. I am so excited to support the lofty goals the team sets and will fight together to accomplish!” |
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 | Pre-World Championships Rankings: The Top 25 Female Swimmers in the World With the next edition of the FINA World Championships approaching, it’s time to consider who are the best swimmers in the world. Certainly, ranking swimmers across different events is a highly subjective exercise, and we must choose whether to view consistency or best times or performances at major championship meets as more important. This set of rankings will judge the 25 best swimmers in the world, with long course performances and abilities weighed most heavily. We are trying to see what swimmers are the best right now, a week-and-a-half out from the start of the Budapest Worlds, but given that many top swimmers have yet to compete at peak form this year, results from the Tokyo Olympics and other major meets will be weighed heavily as well. And even though many big names are skipping Worlds, they were still considered here because of their recent success and the likelihood that they will once again impact major international competition in the future, some even this year. |
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 | Finally! Team USA’s 1976 Women’s 400 Freestyle Relay Receives Call to the USOPC Hall of Fame It was a week filled with frustration. A week of agony and pain. A week of what-if questions. As the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal unfolded, little went the way of the United States women. It wasn’t that the Team USA roster was weak or underperforming, either. The problem was a glaring issue out of the control of those in Red, White and Blue.
Event after event, East Germany sent its women to the medals podium, often following a world-record performance. Those athletes may have put in significant work in the pool. They may have been talented. But they also benefited from another influence: The use of performance-enhancing drugs.
In what is considered one of the darkest hours in the sport’s history, the Montreal Games – at least on the women’s side – was a meet that matched skill vs. illicit science. Not surprising, science came out on top, as East Germany ruled the medals table and repeatedly leveled the United States with a tainted hammer. |
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 | Michael Stephens Leaves Boston College to Take Top Job at Hawaii Boston College head swimming and diving coach Michael Stephens has left to take the same job at the University of Hawaii, the schools announced Wednesday. Stephens has spent most of the last decade and a half at Boston College. He graduated in 2012, as a team captain and one of the program’s best male breaststrokers. He became an assistant coach soon after, overseeing recruiting, and took the head coaching job in 2017 at the age of 26. Stephens helped the Eagles break more than 120 school records and combine for 29 NCAA B standard/zone diving performances for a program perennially near the bottom of an ACC that has improved greatly in recent years. Stephens also had three women qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2021 and served as an assistant coach to the Barbados National Swim Team, with his swimmer Alex Sobers. |
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