{"id":127534,"date":"2015-03-18T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=127534"},"modified":"2016-02-23T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:23:57","slug":"notes-from-pre-meet-press-conferences-at-womens-ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/notes-from-pre-meet-press-conferences-at-womens-ncaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Pre-Meet Press Conferences at Women&#8217;s NCAAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Editorial content for the NCAA Division I Championships is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikeswim.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nike Swim<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>By David Rieder<\/p>\n<p>GREENSBORO \u2212 A line of five swimmers and divers sat at the podium for the pre-meet press conferences at women&#8217;s NCAAs, but the media assembled wanted to talk to the one in the yellow shirt on the far right: Missy Franklin. Franklin had long since made clear that these NCAAs would be her final collegiate meet, and she backed up that statement the day before the first race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be my last collegiate meet, as many of you know,&#8221; said Franklin in her opening statement. &#8220;These past two years, they&#8217;ve been amazing. I can&#8217;t believe how fast they&#8217;ve flown by.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Franklin, who last year won the 200 free in a new American and NCAA record time of 1:40.31, spoke glowingly of the memories she will keep from her college swimming years and of the growth she experienced at Cal. She said that she has had no qualms about her decision to leave school after two years since that was the path she and her parents agreed upon after the 2012 Olympics. &#8220;Part of what&#8217;s made this decision easier is that this has been the plan all along,&#8221; said Franklin.<\/p>\n<p>Amid speculation of where she will train after she turns professional, Franklin refused to speculate. &#8220;Looking forward, I&#8217;m thinking about the next three days,&#8221; said Franklin. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been working for for the past two years, and this is what it&#8217;s about right now. That&#8217;s what my team deserves; that&#8217;s what I deserve.<\/p>\n<p>As for the meet itself, Franklin said she would enjoy swimming different events from last year, subtracting the 100 and 500 free from last year&#8217;s meet and adding the 200 back and 200 IM. She added, though, that her most important priority in her event schedule was filling needs for her team. &#8220;You all get to see my breaststroke, so that&#8217;s gonna be pretty great,&#8221; joked Franklin.<\/p>\n<h2>Retirement Announcement<\/h2>\n<p>For most swimmers, the road comes to an end after the NCAA Championships their senior year. And one swimmer admitted today that she will indeed be done after the next three days of competition. &#8220;I actually just decided, within the last couple of weeks, that this will be my last meet ever,&#8221; said Georgia senior Amber McDermott.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So yeah, I kinda want to go out with a bang,&#8221; said McDermott. &#8220;I only have four days left of swimming, so I might as well make them the best ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Georgia coach Jack Bauerle said he made sure to talk with McDermott about her future before the meet. &#8220;I gotta give her a blessing,&#8221; said Bauerle, noting that McDermott had been scheduled to compete internationally for Team USA this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re just so afraid to bring it up,&#8221; said Bauerle. &#8220;I just said, you do what you want to do. This is time. You&#8217;ve swum all your life. This is where I think, this is where after four years, it&#8217;s her decision. It&#8217;s not a coaches&#8217; decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Quick Hits<\/h2>\n<p>*Notre Dame&#8217;s Emma Reaney said she&#8217;s excited to be back in Greensboro after she set the NCAA record in the 200 breast in the same pool a year ago. &#8220;To be able to come back to this pool for my last collegiate meet, and knowing that 200 breast is on the last day, it&#8217;s comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*McDermott commented on how her role on the Georgia team had changed as she went through the years. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think that being a senior would be that much different. But it&#8217;s nice to be looked up to. The younger kids, they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing sometimes.&#8221; The latter comment quickly earned McDermott the wrath of her underclassmen teammates.<\/p>\n<p>*Bauerle got credit as the winning coach from last year&#8217;s NCAA title team, but he missed the meet while on suspension. But he said that he felt no extra emotion in returning to the deck after a year off. In 2014, Bauerle said, &#8220;I got to coach them all the way until they got to the bus, but it was much more relaxing being at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*Cal coach Teri McKeever made a number of significant changes to her swimmers&#8217; events schedule this season. Along with Franklin&#8217;s switch, she moved Elizabeth Pelton out of the 200 free and into the 100 back. McKeever said that she took advantage of the versatility of both Franklin and Pelton in making the event selections while keeping in mind what would be best for their careers long term. She also added that she made particular changes &#8220;because I&#8217;m sneaky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*Reaney said that she took pride in representing an institution not traditionally known as a swimming powerhouse in Notre Dame, noting that she uses being an underdog and proving people wrong as motivation. &#8220;For a place that&#8217;s pretty much only known for football, being here on deck with the interlocking N-D on my cap is just a huge honor itself,&#8221; said Reaney.<\/p>\n<h2>More Quotes<\/h2>\n<h3>Jack Bauerle, Georgia<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an anything-goes championship.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cFaster up top, and way deeper top 16.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cTo make top 16 will be very challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Teri McKeever, California<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very rare in this stage of my coaching career that no one on my team\u2026my team that\u2019s here or anyone on the coaching staff has been to Greensboro. It\u2019s pretty rare that we get to come to somewhere new.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Bears are ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Braden Holloway, NC State<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cExcited to be the host team for this event, Greensboro has treated us well\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a good fan base here and a great atmosphere.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cGreensboro puts on a show, they take pride in their tournaments; every time we\u2019re here they treat us awesome.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a fast facility and I think a lot of teams will find that out.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Greg Meehan, Stanford<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cNo better meet than the NCAA championship.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt is humbling to be here.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe staff at the facility has been great this week- they\u2019ve really made our team feel welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Augie Busch, Virginia<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor to be sitting with several Olympic coaches, many times over.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cVery excited for what the staff here at Greensboro will put on for us.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOur conference (ACC) is experiencing a growth spurt in the sport of swimming and diving.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>On Georgia as defending champions, and if there is a target on their backs?<\/h3>\n<p>Augie Busch: \u201cYou can only control the energy and focus and vision in front of you.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t put energy into what you can\u2019t control.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cJack has done an incredible job bringing Georgia to what it is today.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI prefer not to focus my attention on him or any other team in the peripheral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greg Meehan: \u201cControl the controllables.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve prepared ourselves to take care of our own business.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe get to dictate our own level of success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teri McKeever: \u201cThe journey to the top is very exciting and challenging and a rewarding journey. I am most impressed personally with people who have the ability to stay at the top when others are bringing their best game, whether it be a team or individual and that\u2019s why I have so much respect for Jack [Bauerle] and other programs and other coaches that have done that. And I am hoping, that\u2019s my goal as a coach, my goal as a program is to be relevant as a program and be part of the conversation year in and year out.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Teri McKeever on switching Missy and Elizabeth Pelton\u2019s events for this meet.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf you are fortunate enough to work with women who can be successful at the highest level with different events that gives you more opportunities as a coach and I think it gives them more opportunities to challenge themselves. Some of the decisions for Missy are not only in the best interest of the program, but in the best interest of herself. And I would say particularly for Elizabeth there have been some discussions of decisions in her best interest so she grows as an individual athlete that are between Elizabeth and I.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Teri McKeever on Missy Franklin\u2019s career<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re fortunate enough to have an athlete of that stature on your team it brings an awareness to the sport and campus and program that I\u2019m very appreciate of.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis group of women will give her the greatest gift anyone could ever give her.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Missy Franklin, California<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI am so excited, this is obviously a little different for me, this is my last collegiate meet as many of you know. I couldn\u2019t be more excited to be here with my girls. I\u2019m so grateful and so blessed for the last two years. I think about not having this experience and I honestly can\u2019t imagine where I would be.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt really has changed my life forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Amber McDermott, Georgia<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThis is my last collegiate meet, I\u2019m really thankful to be here.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cGreensboro is an awesome place to be for my last meet, the facility is great and so far I\u2019ve had a good experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Jessica Parratto, Indiana<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI have 1-meter, and 3-meter, and Platform to compete; I\u2019m not used to that. I\u2019m usually a platform diver so the springboard is a little different for me. I\u2019m excited to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Emma Reaney, Notre Dame<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t even come to terms with it\u201d (Last collegiate meet)<br \/>\n\u201cUp until a week ago, I thought I was going to be the only girl here from Notre Dame, but then we had a second alternate slip in and then a diver make it, and they\u2019re both seniors so to be able to share my last collegiate meet with two girls from my class is really special.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Simone Manuel, Stanford<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI am going to try to soak up all of the memories with my teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Missy Franklin on her collegiate career<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe memories I\u2019ve been able to make have really just been incredible.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m so excited for the next couple days to make so many more memories. I\u2019ve grown as a person, I\u2019ve grown as an athlete and I\u2019m just so grateful for the opportunities and the challenges I\u2019ve had to help me do that.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cLooking forward, I\u2019m looking towards the next 3 days. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been working for the past two years and this is what it\u2019s about right now. It\u2019s what my team deserves and it\u2019s what I deserve to be right here right now and enjoy every second of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Emma Reaney on the pressure coming back after breaking NCAA record last year in 200 breast<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI feel pretty good. That swim, it didn\u2019t necessarily come out of nowhere but I think I surprised myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Missy Franklin on memorable moments in college<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cFor some reason, the one thing that is popping into my mind is finals week last winter. And our whole team, you would think that we\u2019d get sick of each other after spending so much time together but we would all just take over this room in Doe library and study there for eight hours a day and be running off of coffee and cornbread and I\u2019m sitting there and going through all of my notes and I looked up and it was just one of those moments where you sit back and I\u2019m in this beautiful library on the best campus in the world surrounded by my best friends, my teammates, and people that I\u2019m going to have in my life forever and just watching them study watching them listen to music and just thinking about the times I\u2019ve been able to share with them and I feel as loved and as close to them sitting in the library studying for finals as I do after we win a relay or lose a relay and being able to share that with someone is a really special thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial content for the NCAA Division I Championships is sponsored by Nike Swim. 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