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The Sweet Sounds of Sam Kendricks: The Voice of Swimming<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the NCAA Championships concluded, Swimming World reaches into the archive for this feature on Sam Kendricks, the longtime announcer whose voice is synonymous with the sport. If you watched any of the streaming coverage of the NCAA Championships, Kendricks’ voice could not be missed. He brought his usual passion and perfect delivery to every race – from prelims to finals. In this feature, Kendricks also discusses the role Eddie Reese<\/a> played on his life and career.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Alec Scott<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1983, University of Texas men\u2019s swimming coach Eddie Reese <\/strong>walked up to student assistant Sam Kendricks<\/strong> hours before the biggest dual meet of the college swimming season and said, \u201cHey Sam, you\u2019re going to announce the meet today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Legendary Texas all-sports announcer Wally Pryor,<\/strong> who swam for Texas in the 1950s, was under the weather and wasn\u2019t going to be able to make it to the meet. It was a dual meet between three championship teams. The Texas men won the NCAA championship in 1981, UCLA won it in 1982, and Florida would go on to win it in 1983.<\/p>\n

\u201cGo call the meet, do your best, and don\u2019t be a homer.\u201d Reese said.<\/p>\n

Texas went on to dominate the meet, and despite getting on the nerves of Florida head coach Randy Reese<\/strong>,Eddie’s brother, Kendricks went on to periodically call meets after that.<\/p>\n

Kendricks grew up in Irving, Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom was a single parent raising my brother and I,\u201d Kendricks said. \u201cWe certainly weren\u2019t poor by any means but we had to scrape by a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

By his own admission he was somewhat of a late-bloomer in the sport of swimming. He got his start in the sport through some difficult circumstances. Growing up in Texas, he loved football and got really into the sport as a kid, until, at age 11, he came down with a case of spinal meningitis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to say I was at death\u2019s door but I was in pretty bad shape there for a couple weeks,\u201d Kendricks said. \u201cComing out of that the doctors told my mom, \u2018no more contact sports.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kendricks and his brother already spent a lot of time around the pool in the summer and some local kids talking smack is ultimately what got him to try out competitive swimming. A local coach told his mom he had some ability and she used that as a springboard to get him and his brother into swimming.<\/p>\n

Collegiate swimming was not on Kendricks\u2019 radar until he won the opportunity to attend the University of Texas swim camp by raising the most money in his club team\u2019s swim-a-thon. As it turns out, that was coach Reese\u2019s first session of camp in Austin after his arrival from Auburn. Kendricks and about 20 other kids were part of the first two-week session of the Longhorn Swim Camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came home to my mom and I said, \u2018I think I know what I want to do, I think I\u2019d like to coach,\u2019\u2019\u2019 Kendricks said. \u201cEddie Reese and these people down there in Austin they\u2019re transformative. They taught me some things and opened my eyes to the sport in a way that nobody here in Dallas has.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kendricks worked his way through high school hoping to get some academic scholarships and get back to Austin. He never put too much thought into swimming in college. He just wanted to be around the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reached out to Eddie probably about the beginning of my senior year in high school and basically asked him for an opportunity,\u201d Kendricks said. \u201cI said I had been accepted at Texas and if he was willing to let me, I\u2019d do anything he wanted me to do, but I\u2019d like to start working with the program and learning what being a coach is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reese responded by telling him that if he could get into school, he would find a place for Kendricks with the managerial staff and they would get him started with that. Kendricks arrived in Austin with the ambiguous instruction to look Coach Reese up. He didn\u2019t know anyone in the program and didn\u2019t really know what to expect or what was going on. He walked into Reese\u2019s office and was met with a question he never expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen was the last time you were in the water training hard?\u201d Reese said. \u201cMarch,\u201d Kendricks responded. \u201cWell you always had pretty good technique, pretty good skill. Why don\u2019t you try walking on?\u201d Reese said.<\/p>\n

Kendricks\u2019 heart sank. Looking back on a summer spent lifeguarding and doing other work to try to save up money for school and get through his senior year, he knew he wasn’t ready to swim with the guys on the Texas roster. He had been around the pool but had not done any kind of real training.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout thinking about the consequences I said, \u2018yes sir I\u2019ll do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas was one of the top programs in the country at the time. And Kendricks battled through workouts with some of the best athletes in the country as best he could.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never made an interval. I never made a repeat. I couldn\u2019t even keep up with these guys in warmup,\u201d Kendricks said. \u201cI spent the first six or seven weeks on campus grinding through workouts, learning about what these guys were doing, trying to get in shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

He slept through classes and fought his way through afternoon workouts. Eventually, the grueling routine took a toll on life outside of the pool. He was worried he wasn\u2019t going to make it out of the semester academically. He went to Reese and told him he had to get his grades up and he didn\u2019t know what to do. Coach told him to come to his office. He wanted to talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cSam, real simply, my goal for you was not to swim. But if you\u2019re going to begin working with these guys and you\u2019re going to be working with people at this level, and you have no experience at this level, it\u2019s going to be hard for you to understand what they\u2019re going through. You\u2019ve gotta have some concept of what they\u2019re feeling, so I had to give you some of that,\u201d Reese said. \u201cHonestly, I wish you had been training. It would have been better all the way around and who knows what might\u2019ve happened. But do me a favor. Get your grades up and don\u2019t come back until they are good enough to get you through the semester. When you do that, we\u2019ll have a spot for you on the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kendricks went on to coach under Reese for five years from 1980-85 and on Richard Quick<\/strong>\u2019s staff from 1985-87, and then coached club in Arkansas before retiring from coaching in 1995.<\/p>\n

He got back into announcing by chance. Some of Kendricks’ club swimming colleagues in Arkansas had heard he used to announce some meets and asked him to come back and announce their summer invite. He hadn\u2019t seen those people in a few months so he agreed to go back and announce the meet, but mostly just have fun and reminisce with old friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got to the meet I realized I knew everybody on deck on a first name basis,\u201d Kendricks said. \u201cI knew all the kids, all the coaches, and all the parents. So I thought if I\u2019m going to go do this, if I\u2019m going to sit through three days of 100-degree weather, I\u2019m going to have some fun doing it. So I just kinda cut it loose and had fun with those people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within a week, his phone blew up with club coaches from all over who had been at the meet asking if he would come to announce their meet. Less than a year later, he got a call from then USA Swimming Assistant Executive Director Mike Unger<\/strong> asking if he wanted to come announce Nationals. He accepted, and his first Nationals was Minneapolis in 1997. He has been announcing at the national level ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never intended for swimming to be what it\u2019s been in my life, much less announcing as well, but that\u2019s my story, that\u2019s my path,\u201d Kendricks said.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve ever been to a meet or even watched a webcast with Kendricks announcing, you have undoubtedly heard his trademark call to action: \u201cCome on folks, let\u2019s get \u2018em home!\u201d He picked this up during his time coaching under Quick.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the thing\u2019s Richard would do, is you would always hear him screaming from across the pool ‘GET HOME! GET HOME!\u2019\u201d Kendricks said. \u201cHe would turn to the team and say, \u2018come on, get \u2018em home.’\u201d<\/p>\n

That kind of intensity is not something Kendricks brings to announcing himself. But he has always remembered that kind of passion fondly and tries his best to instill that into the crowd with the classic, “come on folks, let’s get these guys home!”<\/p>\n

“Every once in a while we can put together a moment with the crowd that is special,” Kendricks said. “But those moments are special because of what the athletes accomplish.”<\/p>\n

Of all the meets Kendricks announces, Junior Nationals is one of his favorites because of the impact that it can have on the future of the sport. At the 2016 Juniors in Minneapolis he was reading results from the 2012 Junior Nationals and pointing to people who made the 2016 Olympic Team and how they fared in that meet. The message was simple: Some kids on the deck at that Junior National Championships in Minneapolis are going to make the Tokyo Olympic team in 2021. It is just a question of who. And it may be some of the kids you never saw coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole purpose of Juniors in my eyes is to elevate young people and show them that Juniors is just a jumping-off point and anything is possible from there,\u201d Kendricks said. \u201cIf a few kids walk away with that message, then I\u2019ve done my job.\u201d<\/p>\n

He’s done it superbly for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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