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By Annie Grevers, Swimming World Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n

The audience cracked up as Troy Mullaney<\/strong> decribed a tall, gangly, naive swimmer who had joined his high school team after watching an Ashton Kutcher movie, \u201cThe Guardian,\u201d and thinking \u201cit looked easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new guy was Jake Stoll,<\/strong> and the two became fast friends between drives to practice, school, and QuickTrip, and through constant duels in the pool. Stoll joined Mullaney in front of the crowd at last April\u2019s Arizona Aquatic Sports Foundation fundraising dinner with the same light-hearted, comedic tone as his best bud.<\/p>\n

Jake had been side-lined from the football team after suffering a concussion in his first few seconds on the field that season. \u201cThe Guardian\u201d led him to a sport that would ultimately play guardian to the struggling teen\u2026<\/p>\n

He could not swim across the pool. A conspicuously smart kid, Jake began watching hours of YouTube videos to learn how the best swimmers in the world cut through water. He was reassured by their times, thinking he was within striking range of the Olympic greats.<\/p>\n

Then he realized there was a significant difference between short course yards and long course meters\u2014 swimming was not as easy as it had looked.<\/p>\n

Troy\u2019s mom saw Jake improve at a dramatic rate and suggested that he join a year-round team. Jake joined Mesa Aquatics Club, where Paul Smith<\/strong> (owner and director at Mesa Aquatics Club) became a father figure to the \u201cgreen\u201d swimmer. After a summer of club swimming before his senior year in high school, Stoll had worked his 50 free down to a 21-low and his 100 to a 47-low.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I wasn\u2019t all that great, but I thought \u2018maybe I could go to college with this,\u2019\u201d Stoll recalled.<\/p>\n

HARDSHIP INSPIRES A FOUNDATION<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Jake and sister Jessica (center). Photo Courtesy: Jessica Stoll<\/p><\/div>\n

On Jake\u2019s 16th birthday, his parents got into a fight. \u201cThey always fought,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that night, things blew up. My father left.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the morning, Jake talked to his sister about the severity of the schism. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty serious,\u201d she assured her brother.<\/p>\n

After the incident and the divorce, Jake remembers being \u201cmore upset about the abandonment than my parents splitting up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe left the three of us burdened. Then, my mother lost her job. My sister, mother, and I went from a family home to a one-bedroom apartment. Between my 16th birthday and college, we moved six times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Money was tight. \u201cSwimming is an extremely expensive sport\u2014 monthly fees plus meet fees. In high school, I was getting an envelope (with an invoice) every month. I just brushed it off. Then, that summer, right before college, I received a huge bill and thought I had to quit swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eighteen-year-old Jake freaked out, knowing swimming was his ticket to college. \u201cI owe all this money. I remember calling Paul, crying. He worked with me to find ways for me to keep swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul and Laura Smith<\/strong> had recently taken over ownership of the Mesa Aquatics Club.<\/p>\n

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MAC owners and coaches, Paul and Laura Smith. Photo Courtesy: Laura Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

Teammate (now Olympian) Breeja Larson<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0who is one of seven Larson daughters, felt the financial burden as well. \u201cI was always terrified of being billed,\u201d Larson said. \u201cI just ignored the emails. Laura and Paul took me under their wing and said, \u2018You know what, don\u2019t worry about it. Keep doing what you\u2019re doing, be a good example, help out where you can, and we\u2019ll cover it.\u2019 Jake was in that same boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJake, along with Breeja Larson and a handful of other high school kids, were the inspiration for Laura and I to find a way and raise money to help kids\/families out in the spring of 2010. We had made a commitment from day one to never turn away a kid willing to make the commitment to be in swimming!\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n

The compassionate owners supported swimmers on their own at first, but they had not grasped the weight of their community\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had two new, state of the art, $10 million facilities on campuses where the vast majority of kids were in the school lunch program (Kino where Breeja went to Junior High was 90 percent and Skyline with percent) and so few kids could participate in year-round club swimming (and water polo, synchro and dive),\u201d Paul added.<\/p>\n

In 2012, the Smiths mulled over possibilities with some local Masters swimmers and \u201cforged ahead with a partnership with the Arizona Community Foundation<\/a>;\u201d the parent organization of the newly-launched Arizona Aquatic Sports Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, we have over 100 athletes\/families such as Jake and Breeja,\u201d Paul said. \u201cOf those, we have helped I over a dozen go on to swim in college and we will have our first West Point grad this spring!\u201d<\/p>\n

Breeja ended up riding her talent to Texas A&M University, and Jake, to St. Cloud State.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe opportunity that swimming has given us\u2014 to get a college degree?! We worked hard, but if our grades were mediocre and swimming wasn\u2019t going to get us there, we didn\u2019t know what would,\u201d Larson said.<\/p>\n

SHAKING THAT ATHLETE STOICISM\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Breeja Larson and Jake Stoll (center) with MAC teammates. Photo Courtesy: Paul Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

Jake cut ties with his father after a few hurtful occurrences during his time as a swimmer at St. Cloud State. First, his father decided watching his son at NCAAs was not worth his time, then he remarried and acquired a whole knew family without informing his kids or ex-wife. The last straw was when Jake\u2019s father attempted to claim his son\u2019s coveted (and desperately needed) tax refund. Jake did not like the person his father had become.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a family member deserts you, you think, \u2018If I don\u2019t swim well, he\u2019s not going to like me,\u2019 but (of course) Paul was never like that,\u201d Jake said. \u201cWithout Paul, my mom, and a couple others, I could have easily fallen astray. I feel fortunate to have a mother who kept me in line, and to have had Paul, who helped me realize I could achieve whatever I set my mind to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Committed athletes do not like to show weakness. Asking for emotional help is taboo in the sports world.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had it rough, but he never let it show,\u201d Larson said. \u201cHe left it outside the pool, and when he got to the pool, he was a completely different person, and let that take over his life where it could.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a lot to do with the impression athletes are under. Everyone has their deeper story that they don\u2019t share. Everyone has their own reasoning for being the way they are,\u201d Jake said. \u201cI\u2019m lighthearted and naturally pretty happy. I\u2019m 80 percent very happy, but then there\u2019s that 20 percent. Through swimming and therapy, I figured out a way to help cope. Letting people in and talking\u2014 getting over the \u2018if people think I\u2019m happy, then I\u2019m happy.\u2019 I didn\u2019t want to be different, but I learned it\u2019s OK to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jake Stoll graduated from St. Cloud State in 2014 and now works as the Director of Growth at AvidBrain<\/a>, an online marketplace for tutoring that has seen wild success since it\u2019s launch in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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