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I sat down with the freshman phenom from Virginia, Kate Douglass. Douglass took me through her age group swimming days, where she admitted that she was always pretty versatile and open to swimming most events. She comments on her breakout freshman season at UVA and explains how the environment at Virginia was a big part of her growth as a student-athlete.
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Is a college coach sending a workout to a high schooler not an NCAA violation? If so Virginia should be reported.
This convo is a bit dead
What’s dead about a college coach coaching a high school swimmer by supplying workouts to the club coach? Seems interesting to me.
I would cut the young woman a break. Zoom interviews are incredibly difficult. I appreciate her taking the time to promote the sport and her team. In the wake of recent cuts, college swimming can use as much positive publicity as possible.
Agreed! Zoom interviews are hard, and she did a great job. Let’s stop tearing our kids down. It’s hard enough right now !
Who monitors the actions of college coaches? There is more focus on the players than the coaches as far as oversight is concerned. This should change but likely will not since the name of the game these days is winning… at any cost. Step it up NCAA.
Did I hear correctly that the college coach was writing the workouts for the club coach to use while Kate was in high school? So, the club team trained for Kate? Is that unusual? Maybe you can interview the club coach, that would be interesting.
Many clubs will focus their top group on their fastest person in order to get national attention and bring more people to club.
Focusing on the top swimmer is not the same as accepting workouts from a college coach. I too would like to hear from the Chelsea’s Piers coach. Is that behavior even permitted for a college coach? Seems like outside the NCAA rules.
Which is technically against NCAA rules but not surprising
I’m sure Desorbo prefaced it like hey this is what we are doing this week or today *wink,wink use it how you want. Plenty of college coaches do it it’s just not talked about cause it’s skating on thin ice in the eyes of the NCAA. Also, what club coach wants to admit they don’t actually coach their own swimmers ha
I swam for a small club team and every year my coach would reach out in the spring to the college coaches of seniors on our team to see how the club could help get athletes prepared for college training. Every time they just gave her swimming/dryland workouts they were doing or did recently. I am sure the preface was probably the same as you described.
The kid admitted that the practices were written for her by the college coach. No wink wink here.