COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 8. BOB Bowman (Ann Arbor, Mich. \/ Michigan) and John Collins (Larchmont, N.Y. \/ Badger Swim Club) will serve as head coaches for the 2007 World Championships, March 25-April 1 in Melbourne, Australia. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have two outstanding coaches who will lead our team to success in an exciting and challenging competition,\u201d said John Walker, USA Swimming National Team High Performance Director. \u201cThis meet will be a significant test for our team. Not only are we are facing our biggest rivals in their backyard, but this is also the last opportunity these athletes have to test themselves on a major international stage before the Beijing Olympics.\u201d <\/p>\n
The team that will compete at the 2007 World Championships will be selected at the 2006 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships, Aug. 1-5 in Irvine, Calif., and the results of the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships, Aug. 17-20. <\/p>\n
This is Bowman\u2019s first USA National Team head coaching appointment. He previously served on the 2003 and 2005 World Championship as well as the 2004 Olympic staffs as a men\u2019s assistant coach. He has been the men\u2019s head coach at the University of Michigan since 2004 and is the personal coach of six-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always an honor to serve on a National Team staff, and I take the responsibility of being the head coach of a World Championships team very seriously,\u201d Bowman said. \u201cWe have an incredibly strong men\u2019s team, and as always, a number of veterans we can count on. I\u2019m looking forward to some exciting new talent surfacing this summer at our Trials when we select the team.\u201d <\/p>\n
John Collins is one of USA Swimming\u2019s most experienced National Team coaches. He previously served as head coach in 2001 and assistant coach in 1998 for the World Championship Team. He has been the head coach of Badger Swim Club since 1972 and was the personal coach of Olympic gold medalists Rick Carey, Lea Loveless, Cristina Teuscher and Jenny Thompson. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very excited to be a part of a team which has the potential to be the best ever U.S. women\u2019s team,\u201d Collins said. \u201cThere are so many exciting young performers on the scene, and the fact that this meet will be held in Australia against a women\u2019s team that thinks it\u2019s the No. 1 team is a great challenge. It\u2019s the most important coaching role I\u2019ve had in my lifetime, and I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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