{"id":134997,"date":"2015-06-04T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=134997"},"modified":"2015-08-24T21:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T04:47:48","slug":"coaching-a-division-3-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/coaching-a-division-3-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Swimming From A Division III Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Connor Bailey, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coaches are the glue of the swimming community. Though swimmers shine and fade with their athletic careers, a coach has a more permanent presence. Their experience with the sport lends them a wizened perspective. But, when we talk to coaches, it\u2019s only about their swimmers. We ask how are Suzy Q and Benny A doing this season? Or, a perennial favorite, What do you think about your prospects for the championship? Too often, the time-honed insights of these individuals go unheard.<\/p>\n<h3>Unsung D3 Heroes<\/h3>\n<p>For college swimming, only a small portion of the total coaches, those at the NCAA Division I schools, receive much attention. These are the biggest, most elaborate, and most competitive programs \u2014 but they are not the only programs. Descending two levels of obscurity, coaching swimming on the Division III level often go almost completely unnoticed even though their perspectives, from the grassroots of the college swimming community, have welcoming nuance and clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Two of these coaches, Erin Hurley and Tim Hammond, are respectively the head coach and assistant coach of Grinnell College&#8217;s swim team. Grinnell, a small liberal arts school in Iowa, competes in the Division III Midwest Conference (MWC).<\/p>\n<p>Neither had intended to coach professionally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not planned as a career choice,\u201d Tim Hammond puts it bluntly. \u201cI felt like I knew more about this than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like almost all coaches, Tim began as a swimmer and continued his athletics through his academic career at another small liberal arts school, Luther College. In high school Hammond had coached his city recreation team, then at his graduation from Luther, he was asked to join the coaching staff of his alma mater. From there, he arrived at Grinnell College, where he has spent the better part of a decade.<\/p>\n<p>For Hammond, his experience with coaching and in the environment of a D-III college made Grinnell seem like an obvious choice. Hurley\u2019s story is a bit different.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_135271\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HammondHurleyDiscuss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135271\" data-attachment-id=\"135271\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/coaching-a-division-3-perspective\/hammondhurleydiscuss\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HammondHurleyDiscuss.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"831,554\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HammondHurleyDiscuss\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;HammondHurleyDiscuss&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: David Lytle&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HammondHurleyDiscuss-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HammondHurleyDiscuss.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135271\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HammondHurleyDiscuss-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"HammondHurleyDiscuss\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-135271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: David Lytle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until Erin Hurley was finishing her swimming career as a Division I swimmer for University of Nebraska that she began to consider coaching. After her NCAA eligibility, Hurley stayed at Nebraska to take some more classes and was offered the opportunity to rejoin her team as a volunteer assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to stay engaged,\u201d she said. \u201cI was just finishing my career, of something that I had dedicated all but four years of my life to.\u201d After graduating from Nebraska, Hurley was still unsure of the path ahead of her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no idea what I wanted to do, but I really enjoyed my one year of coaching.\u201d That experience would propel her to get her masters in Sports Psychology from the University of Iowa. As part of her program she was given the opportunity to help coach the women&#8217;s team. After receiving her Masters, Hurley spent one year coaching at Cornell College in Iowa, and two years at Illinois Wesleyan.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in her words, \u201cThe Grinnell position opened up, and here I am twenty years later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Hurley says she never sought to coach at a Division III-school, she certainly didn\u2019t dislike the prospect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be able to do some teaching and I\u2019m going to be able to do coaching as well, and it\u2019s a small school and I\u2019d never had that experience,\u201d Hurley said. She thought about returning to D-I once, and even interviewed for a position, but wasn\u2019t offered the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought &#8216;maybe that\u2019s telling me something,&#8217;\u201d Hurley said. She has not looked back since.<\/p>\n<h3>The D3 Distinction<\/h3>\n<p>The difference between a D-I and D-III programs is not inconsequential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall schools want to provide the same opportunities that big school do,\u201d Hammond said. The only problem is resources. \u201cI get to, sometimes I have to, but a lot of times I get to do other things, because its needed, and because the opportunity is there.\u201d Hammond says that the necessities of coaching at this level \u201callow me to be more than just a swimming coach on the deck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes he needs to be just the one thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt certain times winning is on the forefront of my mind, but the background or the base of what I\u2019m doing here at Grinnell College isn\u2019t necessarily winning,&#8221; Hammond said. &#8220;It\u2019s about providing opportunity for students to participate in something that they love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hammond sees his job to convert that love into success, both inside and outside of the pool. Hurley affirms this idea and in describing her job says simply (but ecstatically), \u201cIt\u2019s being a mentor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though she says she never made a conscious decision to leave D-I, in her time as an athlete and coach, she noticed some things that troubled her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was aware of the lack of balance that some of them had in their heads,&#8221; Hurley said. &#8220;You know, swimming was everything, and it was the most important thing in their life&#8230;and that was me too.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Only One Dot in the Circle<\/h3>\n<p>Hurley tries to get beyond the \u201ctunnel vision\u201d of Division-I, describing her view as \u201cmore of a holistic perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Juxtaposing the obsession of her youth, Hurley says that being a good Division III coach means realizing \u201c[For the swimmers] This is one point in time, and a very important one or a somewhat important one, or kind of important one\u2026and all of that\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As coaches, they are very intentional about creating an atmosphere that emphasizes a broadened vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the social structure that we try and cultivate, we\u2019re helping people learn about themselves, and learn who they want to be,\u201d Hammond said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn your big circle of who you are, one of those dots is a swimmer,&#8221; Hurley says. &#8220;It\u2019s only one dot.\u201d From that perspective, she says the job of a coach is to answer the question: \u201cso how can we connect all of those dots?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That the athletic drive to improve needs to be reflected in the coaches, according to Hammond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to be open to constructive criticism, I have to seek myself to be critical of myself and critical of what I\u2019m doing.\u201d A coach must be dedicated to their craft and must push themselves toward growth and be constantly learn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] not just physics, not just hydrodynamics; it&#8217;s understanding sociology and all these factors that play into success in the sport and helping people become good people,\u201d Hammond said.<\/p>\n<p>But coaches are still only human.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody has that the one idea that\u2019s the top-secret thing,&#8221; she assured. &#8220;We all have methods, concepts, philosophies to share and I think we can all benefit from those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this conversation was just a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Connor Bailey, Swimming World College Intern Coaches are the glue of the swimming community. 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