Texas women’s swimming head coach Carol Capitani is fresh off of her trip to Paris, where she was an assistant coach for Team USA’s Olympic swim team. Capitani opens up about how she was able to connect with the team and what her takeaways from Paris were.
She also speaks on what will look different at Texas this fall with Bob Bowman at the helm of the now-combined program. While Capitani will still be in charge of the women’s program, Friday afternoon’s will now be a combined practice every week. Capitani and Bowman will look for other ways to collaborate and move both teams forward.
Carol gone within 2yrs
“Bob is a planner” – hopefully this helps out the women’s team this year on being able to peak at the right time and managing the double taper with SECs. It seems the women’s team has struggled at times to manage this but there is no shame in using this new opportunity to make everyone at Texas better. It would be fun to see a tighter race at NCAAs with UVA!
Interesting that Texas women who finished 2nd at NCAAs need the help of Bob Bowman who’s women finished 24th 💁♀️
That’s not a good comparison lol. The ASU women do not have anywhere near the depth or talent of the Texas women.
That’s a great comparison – Bob was only men at Michigan and ASU men swam very well ………girls as a TEAM, not so much.
Seems Carol should be getting more $$ to advise than Bob on female teams.
I think the Carol/Bob combo could do some crazy things. I think there are things that both could learn from each other, and that creates an incredible ecosystem.
Let Bob coach Carol. Keep him away from actually directly coaching the women.
And who is responsible for that depth? Presence?
Bowman had been at ASU for 8 years. He was able to get the men there. Coaching women is much different than coaching men. Resting them is much different.
He had 9 women at the meet, mostly relay swimmers. And 2 women swam faster in a total of 3 events combined.
Carol sent 15 women who all had individual events and only 3 did not swim faster at all. Rest had 1 or more bests.
Maybe Bob should have planned better in recruiting. Planned better in training the female athletes he had.
Maybe stick with facts and numbers vs throwing shade on an already qualified coach in place.
Bob was there for years, plenty of time to recruit or develop faster swimmers. Of course after he messed up Emma Nordin’s taper for the most important meet of her life it may have made it more difficult to recruit.
The SEC usually has one of the earliest conference dates, while the Pac 12 had the latest dates. So Bob and the coaching staff will have to adjust to the different amount of weeks between the conference meet and the NCAA Meet