Profiles in Excellence: The 2013 14 College Swimming & Diving Honors
Male Career Improvement You are being recognized for improvement over a career.# Can you comment on your experience at Michigan and some of the motivating people or factors that helped you make this happen? I need to use this time to recognize my success as being a product of the culture that exists here at the University of Michigan. Having a team of guys making sacrifices for each other's success has really inspired me to want to be the best that I possibly could. And thats all it was, four years of wanting to do your best for the team and nothing else. Go Blue!
between his freshmen and sophomore years. !He had done a lot of technique work during his freshman year, and his training was beginning to allow him to hold that technique for more of his practices and races. !During that summer, he started to train some distance with Ryan Feeley and Sean Ryan who really helped him understand what he was capable of doing. !His improvement was truly astonishing. !He went his first Olympic Trials cut ever in the 400 Free that summer in July of 2011 at 3:59 and then made the A final at Nationals with a 3:53. !A year later he made the Olympic Team in the 1500.
The next question was to Associate Head Coach, Dr. Josh White.
Looking at Connor’s progression of improvement, what were some of the pivotal moments or periods of time in Connor’s career that perhaps fueled him to not only improve but be competitive on the highest level. Connor really started to come in to his own during the summer
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HS
Fresh
Soph
Junior
Senior
Imp
500 FR
4:27.20
4:22.45
4:13.78
4:10.84
4:12.37
:14.83
400 IM
3:58.57
3:59.35
3:59.16
3:46.09
3:43.49
:15.08
1650 FR
n/l
n/l
14:35.14
14:34.87
14:29.27
n/a
200 FR
1:39.06
1:37.59
1:35.30
1:33.81
1:33.80
:05.26
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