College Recruit Rankings Profile: Six-Star Will Freeman, Class of 2014

By Kristen Heiss

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 23. THE next prospect in our College Recruit Rankings Profile series is Will Freeman. A six star distance freestyler who swims for Swim Atlanta, Freeman has had major improvements in the last year. After dropping a minute from his best time in the mile in March, Freeman looks to be one of the top distance recruits next year. Although he is only a junior in high school, his times of 4:19.32 in the 500 and 14:45.73 in the 1650 would have placed him 8th in both events at the Men's Division I NCAA's.

1) Who is your current coach at Swim Atlanta?
My current coach at Swim Atlanta is Chris Davis

2) Where do you go to high school?
I go to Greater Atlanta Christian School

3) When and where did you start swimming?
My parents started me in summer league at the age of 6, then when I was 9, and discouraged that I didn't make the summer league championship team, I begged to be signed up for year-round swimming. However, I didn't start seriously training and swimming until I was 13.

4) Who would you name as the most influential person and coach in your swimming career?
Scot Davis would be my most influential coach in my swimming career. I really bonded with him and he taught me to love and enjoy doing work at practice. He was a distance swimmer at Georgia, and he was a great distance coach and i made tons of improvement with him. Also, he is the leader of Team S (an elite group of distance swimmers at Swim Atlanta) and a most awesome dude.

5) What, to this point, is your best moment in the sport and why?
My 14:45.71 1650 time that I swam at Sectionals in March. This is my best moment in the sport because I was truly amazed by the time and saw my hard work come into fruition. I dropped a minute from my last year's time and 30 seconds from my previous best which I swam in December. Now I'm only 19 seconds away from the American record, which is still hard to believe.

6) Walk us through a day of practice
We always do 2000 warm up of assorted sets, then I train distance most of the time and we do 7000-8000 hard swimming, and then we have 45 minutes of hard dry land after practice.

7) What is your favorite set?
I like super hard sets that really challenge me and require mental toughness to keep going. I like when sets run through a pyramid or something like 100, 5 X 100, 200, 4 X 100, etc. where the intervals are constantly difficult and you get little rest yet keep going through the pattern. These sets are very good for endurance, mental toughness, and consistency. Also, one time we did a 10,000 for time and that was pretty crazy.

8) What is your least favorite set?
I don't like breath control sets or kick sets. Often times I get bored and lose focus. I think I need changes and mainly intensity to keep me focused and working hard.

9) What are your short-term goals?
I am going to World Championship Trials this summer, and I would like to see how high I can place there.

10) What are your long-term goals?
I want to make the Olympic team.

11) Is there anything else that you'd like our readers to know about you?
One interesting thing we do at our distance group is when it is warm we do lake swims once a week and twice a week during the summer. Also I am a member of Team S, an elite and select group of distance guys at Swim Atlanta Sugarloaf.

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