2025 Pro Swim Series – Fort Lauderdale
- Wednesday, April 30 – Saturday, May 3, 2025
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Recaps
After Gretchen Walsh re-broke her own 100 fly world record *twice* in Ft Lauderdale, Virginia’s Todd Desorbo spoke with the media. When speaking about what he’s worked on with Walsh, DeSorbo mentioned that he’s encouraged her to take one less stroke on the first 50 of her 100 fly.
Going from 18 to 17 strokes, Walsh asked DeSorbo, “You want me to go slower?” to which DeSorbo replied, “No, slow is not in our vocabulary. I want you to be more patient”.
Come on, Todd! Let ’em spend time on the beach.
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They already did if you saw the uva girls insta during the week of pro swim series
Alternative headline:
Todd Desorbo on training Katie Grimes:
“Regress is 100% in our vocabulary”
what’s your problem
Go read Gretchen’s early story at Virginia and then tell me how it turned out
Who won the 200 FR, 500 FR, 1650 FR at the 2021 NCAA DI Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships?
Paige Madden, who coincidentally took her career to the next level after fleeing Charlottesville.
Her performance in Paris was iconic — throwing down an all time top ranking time and giving a scare to two Olympic legends. ♥️😍
60 points.
End of story.
I’m sure you wish her story ended there.
But lucky for her and the United States it did not and she achieved Olympic glory with a new training regime. ✨♥️
…. and the 2021 NCAA DI Women’s title.
One thing to keep in mind, not all college swimmers, especially girls, get faster in college. What’s the overall body of work look like? You can’t always (or hardly ever) pin one swimmer’s results on the staff alone.
Post collegiate late bloomers:
Meili, Katie
Lazor, Annie
Just an observation from the cheap seats – part of the DeSorbo magic seems to be keeping his tone light hearted & his formula includes finding ways to keep it fun.
Swimming can be a monotonous, grueling & at times depressing journey for the athletes. He’s finding ways to help them avoid that.
Which, and this is NOT a knock on him, is much more difficult to do with distance swimming.
Listen to Yuri:
https://youtu.be/W8CnERV-CpE?si=KbI5MdxFGCWsfXF9
Lucky coach!
He saves that word for the men’s team.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh
I’m still upset Heilman is going there and not Texas or Cal
I think you’re going to be surprised by the men’s team once Heilman and Williamson are there. Desorbo is a good coach obviously, be he also got lucky with talent on the women’s side – and clearly he knows how to work with talent. so you may be eating your words soon!
Compare the performances of Torri Huske and Gretchen Walsh at the 2021 USA Swimming Olympic Team Trials – Wave II.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
of course they did set an American record 2 years ago. Tell me how many college men’s programs have set American records in the past few years.
I am honestly intrigued why this happened the past years. The first year for him at UVA saw great results with the men. Is that the recruiting, the culture, or maybe the guys actually need a somewhat different training program?
Had some bad eggs on the team who had trouble in previous college stops and with their Club teams in high school.
Those are some strong teeth on Desorbo
Would genuinely like to know his whitening regimen
They’re impressive. But he’s no Barry Gibb.
They’re like Ross in Friends-level bright.