Becca Mann, author of the “week with USRPT series” we posted two weeks ago, has changed training locations. She is moving to train at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, she told SwimSwam on Wednesday afternoon.
The 16-year old Mann was a three-time Olympic Trials finalist in 2012, placing 5th in the 800 free, 5th in the 400 IM, and 6th in the 400 free in Omaha when she was just 14 years old.
Since then, she has expanded her repertoire to include open water, finishing 2nd in both the 5km and 10km race at the 2013 Open Water National Championship meet and qualify for the World Championship team.
She’s also a three-time Jr. Pan Pacs gold medalist.
Becca Mann began to make national headlines while swimming with the Academy Bullets in Illinois, where she swam some astonishing times as an 11-12. She then moved to Clearwater, Florida to train with Randy Reese and the Clearwater Aquatic Team.
Mann is a current member of the USA Swimming National Team, and is the 13-14 National Age Group Record holder in the 800 meter free, the 1500 meter free, the 400 meter IM, and the 1650 yard free.
She will now head north to Baltimore, her third unique training region, to swim under Bob Bowman and staff at North Baltimore. North Baltimore and its staff has a strong history of working with young female middle-to-distance swimmers. Among the most prominent of those successes recently is Erik Posegay’s work with Gillian Ryan while they were at the Parkland Aquatic Club; she won the U.S. National Championship at just 16 years old as well.
To see more about Becca Mann’s excursion into USRPT, see the links below.
There’s a point in a conversation where it’s outlived its useful public life.
If the interested parties here would like to continue this conversation off-site, please email me (braden@SwimSwam.com) and I will gladly put you in touch with anybody else who emails me and wants to discuss.
This seems to be a personal dispute and disagreement between a few different parents, so let’s make it a personal conversation.
The scoreboard doesn’t lie. But parents do
Hey “RTS”. U should really get a life. Ur some peoples kids just are not tough enough for a program that makes u great if u put in the hard work. U should keep ur uninformed comments in ur slocket. Oops I meant pocket
Jim Hirschberger worked harder for CAT than all the parents on the team combined. For Humble to bash Mr Hirschberger is comical. Jim was the “go to parent” on that team. He was their first Meet Referee and ran all of the meets, and there were way too many meets. His wife is an accountant who did the books for free. He worked his butt off for CAT. Becca Mann left for a reason: Randy Reese. Enough said.
Randy cared for Becca. She did not leave because Randy.
Sarcasm to instill discipline? Wow.
Becca must have left the program because everything is great in Clearwater?
A CAT parent just told me another swimmer was kicked off the team at Christmas, because he decided to go to the University of Florida.
Let’s just all watch what happens
Randy has a personality full of sarcasm. I’ve had several “okay” coaches in my swimming career. But no one as talented as Randy. Randy has been a great change for me, and I have seen bountiful, flabbergasting results. Everyday by looking at my workout I see that he takes time thinking about his sets that he puts on the paper. He makes his swimmers learn to be discipline. I’ve see him get upset at some really exquisite swimmers before, but it’s all for discipline. Randy doesn’t just look at his best swimmers, but he looks at everyone. I’m not the fastest swimmer in my group at CAT, but Randy still pays attention to me. I did a good race at… Read more »