Swimming Video capture – Garrett McCaffrey / SwimSwam co-founder.
Video edit – Coleman Hodges / SwimSwam Production Manager.
ASU Swimming and Diving Coach Bob Bowman recently sat down with Swimswam’s Garrett McCaffrey for an exclusive interview. We have turned that interview into a 6-part mini series, Bowman Takes Tempe, running 1 episode each day of the week from May 31-June 5.
For Bob Bowman, this is it.
With a college team to completely revamp, the ability to sprout numerous learn to swim programs, and his post-grad training coming to an end, Bob Bowman is ready to hang up his hat in Tempe. He’s expressed that he wants to have his final chapter of coaching at ASU, and build a legacy that he can be proud of and look back on to call his own.
We are all very aware of how he has helped create the greatest Olympic champion of all time, but now Bowman wants something else. He’s drawn back to college because he loves the unexplainable impact that “the collective” has: the team over the individual. Bowman wants to create something that is bigger than just one person.
He wants to create a culture that emphasizes working together towards a common goal, and striving as a team to reach that goal. Through this hardship, they will be able to find success in all other facets of their lives, and rub off on all other communities they are a part of. This will have an outward effect, sending a message whose reach is no one’s to limit. Bowman’s end goal isn’t just to make a great swim program; it’s to completely reinvent what it means to be successful, and it’s doing it through the sport of swimming.
Hats off to you, Bowman. Good Luck in Tempe.
Coach Bowman is one of the greatest coaches in swimming history. Developing Michael Phelps, who delivered the greatest Olympic-run in history, often overshadows his long, storied career, but Bowman has had enormous success in all areas of his coaching life. Coach Bowman’s NBAC has developed countless elite athletes and swimmers competing at the college level. Bowman takes the reins at ASU Swimming and Diving as college swimming programs continue to get cut across the country. ASU’s choice to invest in Bowman and in swimming is beacon of light at this time in college swimming history.
I’m fascinated to see how this turns out. It would be hard to pass up the opportunity to spend your college days training outside under one of the most recognized coaches in history. Very anxious to see his first recruiting class.
You heard it from Bob.
I knew it ! Cocoon .