(Photo's courtesy of Fuller's)
As for an update, I recently applied to be a coach at the University of Texas Swim Camp. I am hoping and praying I get it because it is an amazing opportunity. I have been learning a lot working with Kim Brackin (Head Coach at UT). I always had ideas of how a swim team should be and had given up all hope on it ever being a reality until I went and worked with Kim and the UT team my first time. I almost died when I saw how the workouts were run and the relationships between the coaches and athletes. It was the ideal of perfection. Every athlete was cared for, even tailored to individually in workouts. Taper was a real concept and taken seriously. The overwhelming part for me was finding out that the whole team went to conference, there was no picking of teams. Everyone got to go. The way they manage that is having a C heat that is not eligible for points. So everyone gets to swim. There is never leaving girls behind to swim in a random meet by themselves. Basically everything I had envisioned as being the best possible way to do things actually exists. One of the girls on the UT team Carly Bispo, has a sister who swims at BYU as a freshman this year. Kim told me that she feels like she is missing out not being at BYU, but I assured her she was in the right place and that if anything her sister will be feeling like she is missing out by not getting to experience the amazing environment she is in.
So I hope I get the job, I couldn't imagine anything better than working with Kim and Jim for a summer. Crossing my fingers!!
