{"id":153353,"date":"2015-09-13T21:16:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=153353"},"modified":"2015-09-14T09:02:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T16:02:16","slug":"american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six men comprise the 2016 class of the American Swim Coaches Association Hall of Fame, including longtime ASCA Executive Director John Leonard<\/strong>. The other five have coached Olympic medalists and made a major impact on American swimming across many generations.<\/p>\n

In talking about his induction into the Hall of Fame, Leonard said, \u201cI am not deserving of this honor because I do not meet any of the qualifications. However, I am deeply appreciative to receive this honor.\u201d Leonard has served as ASCA executive director since 1985, with the membership of the organization quadrupling in 20 years. He has been outspoken on many world issues involving coaches and athletes, including transparency from FINA and the World Anti-Doping Agency. He helped expand the ASCA certification program that has certified more than 2,000 coaches in 22 years. Leonard\u2019s time as coach included places on many international staffs, thanks to his work putting swimmers on Olympic and national teams.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/a>

Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n

Peter Banks<\/strong> was the influential force to raising Brooke Bennett<\/strong> to three Olympic gold medals in 2000 and 2004 in the distance freestyle events while coaching at Brandon Blue Wave. It earned Banks the 2000 ASCA Coach of the Year award and a place on the 2000 Olympic team. He also helped Maritza Correia<\/strong> become the first African-American woman on an Olympic swim team, doing so in 2004. Banks now serves as High Performance Director for Swim Ireland, a post he\u2019s held for eight years.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/a>

Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n

Joe Bernal<\/strong> has been at the forefront of advancing the sport, especially in the mid-1980s when his star swimmer, David Berkoff<\/strong> made the underwater dolphin kick a major component of backstroke swimming. He started Bernal\u2019s Gator Swim Club 45 years ago and still serves as the head coach. During that time, he also served 14 years as head coach at Harvard. Five of his swimmers made U.S. Olympic teams in 1976, 1988 and 1992.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/a>

Photo Courtesy: Swimming World<\/p><\/div>\n

Steve Bultman<\/strong>, the current head women\u2019s swim coach at Texas A&M University, qualified his first swimmers for the Olympic Games in 1988. That earned him the status of assistant Olympic coach at the Seoul Olympics. He would return to the Games in 2012 as an assistant coach with the success of athletes such as Breeja Larson<\/strong> and Cammile Adams<\/strong>. Before he started his 17-year career at Texas A&M, he coached with Jack Bauerle<\/strong> at the University of Georgia for five years.<\/p>\n

\"Steve<\/a>

Photo Courtesy: Swimming World<\/p><\/div>\n

Chris Davis<\/strong> is the head coach of SwimAtlanta, the largest USA Swimming club in the country with 2,800 members. In addition to guiding several national champions, he was responsible for putting four swimmers on Olympic teams in 1992, 2004, 2008 and 2012. Davis founded SwimAtlanta in 1977 and has seen his teams place in the top 10 at nationals 20 times.<\/p>\n

\"chris-davis-asca-hall-of-fame\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ray Essick<\/strong> served as executive director of USA Swimming for 21 years, from its inception in 1976 to 1997. He was a big force in beefing up the U.S. national team\u2019s financial compensation, allowing athletes to train past their collegiate careers. His coaching career spanned from high school (at New Trier in Illinois) to college (at Harvard and Southern Illinois). Fred Schmidt<\/strong> made the 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/a>

Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n

Mark Schubert<\/strong>, already an ASCA Hall of Fame member, received the Peter Daland Award, given to a coach for a lifetime of excellence in the sport. Schubert served on seven consecutive Olympic coaching staffs (including the boycotted 1980 team) and likely coached more Americans to the Olympics than any coach in his time at Mission Viejo and Mission Bay swim clubs, as well as at the University of Texas and the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/a>

Photo Courtesy: Swimming World<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six men comprise the 2016 class of the American Swim Coaches Association Hall of Fame, including longtime ASCA Executive Director John Leonard. The other five have coached Olympic medalists and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":153355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[8341,20316,20290,33678,4970,289,4068,8730],"class_list":["post-153353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-american-swim-coaches-association","tag-chris-davis","tag-david-berkoff","tag-joe-bernal","tag-john-leonard","tag-mark-schubert","tag-peter-banks","tag-steve-bultman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nAmerican Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The American Swim Coaches Association named six distinguished coaches into its 2015 Hall of Fame class, including Executive Director John Leonard.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The American Swim Coaches Association named six distinguished coaches into its 2015 Hall of Fame class, including Executive Director John Leonard.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-09-14T04:16:32+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-09-14T16:02:16+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"3264\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2448\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeff Commings\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Commings\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeff Commings\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/11d58f31d00d146ff00dc388db73f92a\"},\"headline\":\"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-09-14T04:16:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-09-14T16:02:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/\"},\"wordCount\":654,\"commentCount\":5,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"American Swim Coaches Association\",\"Chris Davis\",\"David Berkoff\",\"joe bernal\",\"John Leonard\",\"Mark Schubert\",\"Peter Banks\",\"Steve Bultman\"],\"articleSection\":[\"-Home Slider\",\"USA\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/\",\"name\":\"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-09-14T04:16:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-09-14T16:02:16+00:00\",\"description\":\"The American Swim Coaches Association named six distinguished coaches into its 2015 Hall of Fame class, including Executive Director John Leonard.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg\",\"width\":3264,\"height\":2448,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy: Swimming World\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/11d58f31d00d146ff00dc388db73f92a\",\"name\":\"Jeff Commings\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41770da87bc1f748351b0bd390811207?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41770da87bc1f748351b0bd390811207?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Jeff Commings\"},\"description\":\"Jeff Commings is the Senior Writer for SwimmingWorld.com and Swimming World Magazine. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism and was a nine-time NCAA All-American.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/jeffc\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame","description":"The American Swim Coaches Association named six distinguished coaches into its 2015 Hall of Fame class, including Executive Director John Leonard.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame","og_description":"The American Swim Coaches Association named six distinguished coaches into its 2015 Hall of Fame class, including Executive Director John Leonard.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2015-09-14T04:16:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-09-14T16:02:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":3264,"height":2448,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jeff Commings","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@swimmingworld","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeff Commings","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeff Commings","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/11d58f31d00d146ff00dc388db73f92a"},"headline":"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame","datePublished":"2015-09-14T04:16:32+00:00","dateModified":"2015-09-14T16:02:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/"},"wordCount":654,"commentCount":5,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg","keywords":["American Swim Coaches Association","Chris Davis","David Berkoff","joe bernal","John Leonard","Mark Schubert","Peter Banks","Steve Bultman"],"articleSection":["-Home Slider","USA"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/","name":"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg","datePublished":"2015-09-14T04:16:32+00:00","dateModified":"2015-09-14T16:02:16+00:00","description":"The American Swim Coaches Association named six distinguished coaches into its 2015 Hall of Fame class, including Executive Director John Leonard.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg","width":3264,"height":2448,"caption":"Photo Courtesy: Swimming World"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-swim-coaches-association-inducts-six-into-hall-of-fame\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"American Swim Coaches Association Inducts Six Into Hall Of Fame"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/11d58f31d00d146ff00dc388db73f92a","name":"Jeff Commings","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41770da87bc1f748351b0bd390811207?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41770da87bc1f748351b0bd390811207?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Jeff Commings"},"description":"Jeff Commings is the Senior Writer for SwimmingWorld.com and Swimming World Magazine. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism and was a nine-time NCAA All-American.","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/jeffc\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: Swimming World","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/joe-bernal.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-DTr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}