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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Madisyn Cox<\/strong> was 50 meters from the finish in the biggest race of her life. In the 200 IM final at the U.S. Olympic Trials, she was in third place with just the freestyle leg to go, but she turned only two tenths behind leader Maya DiRado<\/strong> and just a tenth behind Caitlin<\/strong> Leverenz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember turning after the breaststroke and thinking, \u2018I feel good. This is it. Let\u2019s do this last 50,\u2019\u201d Cox recalled.<\/p>\n

She had already been fourth in the 400 IM at Trials, swimming a lifetime best time of 4:38.85, but Cox had never expected that she would make the team in that event. So when she got back to her hotel room the night after the 400 IM, she told roommate Maggie D\u2019Innocenzo<\/strong> that she would make the Olympic team in the 200 IM.<\/p>\n

\u201cMag, I\u2019m making this team,\u201d Cox said that night. \u201cAnd she was like, \u2018Yeah, I know.\u2019 I remember being so confident because that 400 IM felt so good\u2014I had so much energy, I never died, and I felt like my strokes were all put together really well.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps those were brash words, but Cox had plenty of reason to be confident. She had won the silver medal in the 200 IM at the World University Games the year before. She had been third in the 200-yard IM in a loaded heat at the NCAA championships.<\/p>\n

Carol Capitani<\/strong>, her coach at the University of Texas, could tell that Cox truly believed she was going to finish in the top two.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that belief is all anybody wants at that point going into finals of your best event,\u201d Capitani said. \u201cThere are no guarantees\u2014I think she knew that\u2014but you can\u2019t make the team unless you believe you can make the team. You are not going to make any team unless you believe, 100 percent in your heart, that you can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

With 50 meters to go in the final, Cox\u2019s proclamation to D\u2019Innocenzo was on the verge of validation. A top-two finish and a spot on the Olympic team were within reach.<\/p>\n

But at that moment when the thought clicked in her head that she was only 50 meters from a trip to Rio, that\u2019s when everything fell apart.<\/p>\n

Cox\u2019s final 50 meter-split was the slowest of anyone in the final. DiRado ended up finishing first, while\u00a0Melanie Margalis<\/strong> touched out Leverenz to pick up the second spot on the Olympic team. Cox was fourth with a time of 2:11.24.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

That was a blow that would take a while to get over\u2014certainly more than the 15 hours Cox had before she was scheduled to swim in the prelims of the 200 breast. She ended up finishing 34th in that event, her time more than four seconds slower than her lifetime best.<\/p>\n

But just days after Trials ended, Cox was back in the pool training. She was set on swimming through the rest of the summer and going to the U.S. Open in early August, but coming off such a big blow, Cox found the pool was not the refuge that it typically was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking, \u2018I don\u2019t care. Swim this off,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cWhenever anything\u2019s wrong, I always go to swimming, but that kind of backfired because swimming was what was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, she figured out why it bugged her so much that she had come up just short.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was ashamed, definitely. I\u2019m from a small town (Lubbock, Texas), and a lot of what I do is for them and to represent them. I felt like I kind of had let them down a bit,\u201d Cox said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI was fine personally,\u201d she added. \u201cI gave it what I had, and overall for myself I was fine with Trials. I think it was more the disappointment I felt I had brought on to others.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took a little bit of a nudge from Capitani to snap her out of it.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Andy Ringgold\/Aringo<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhat we just had to figure out was, \u2018Okay, here\u2019s what we can do. You can keep dwelling on the past, or you can figure out ways to get better. You have your senior year in front of you, you have a team to lead, and you have a job to do,\u2019\u201d Capitani said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen everything\u2019s going well, that\u2019s not when you figure out what you\u2019re made of. It\u2019s when you have to get through the tough times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon enough, the funk would pass, and Cox did swim at the U.S. Open, recording lifetime bests in her breaststroke events and coming close to her Trials times in the IMs. Life would return to normal as Cox entered her senior year at Texas.<\/p>\n

Unlike most college students close to graduation (she has two more semesters of classes to go), Cox has long known exactly what she wants to do with her life\u2014go to medical school and perhaps become a dermatologist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve always wanted to go to med school,\u201d she said. \u201cSciences were always my thing growing up, and my dad is in the medical profession, so he was a big influence on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, while her passion for medicine can wait a few years, swimming has a finite end-point. Even before she twice finished fourth in Omaha, Cox had planned on swimming professionally and making another attempt at an Olympic team in 2020.<\/p>\n

If she had any hesitation about the decision to commit to three more years, those doubts were erased at the Short Course World Championships in Windsor, Canada, where she won bronze medals both the 200 and 400 IM. It was the 400 IM of which she was the proudest, especially after a prelims swim that she called \u201cthe worst-feeling race I think I\u2019ve ever had in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember vomiting afterwards. It was absolutely terrible. Didn\u2019t even think I could walk down stairs. It was a moment where I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t do this. I\u2019m not made for this race. I can\u2019t do it.\u2019 And I remember seeing the board and seeing that I made the A-final, and at first my heart just dropped, and I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t do it again,\u2019\u201d Cox said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of had this little heart-to-heart with Carol. We were like, \u2018That race plan didn\u2019t work. It sucked, honestly.\u2019 We just totally turned it around. I had one of the best night 400 IMs of my life, and I think that right there really taught me, it doesn\u2019t matter how you feel or what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That race gave Cox a glimpse into her capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like everyone in the world was at Short Course Worlds, but there were some pretty heavy hitters there and knowing she could medal\u00a0was big,\u201d Capitani said. \u201cKnowing that she\u2019s better long course, I think that gave her a boost of confidence looking forward to this World Championship Trials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those Trials will be Cox\u2019s target meet for 2017, and she will again aim for a spot on a team more prestigious than any she has made before. But before that, Cox had one final NCAA championships\u2014and some unfinished business\u2014to attend to.<\/p>\n

One year earlier, the Longhorns had bottomed out at the national championship meet, finishing 15th. Cox described that meet as \u201cthe worst it can ever be and will ever be.\u201d The Longhorns had more than just small improvements in mind for the 2017 championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe took a lot of heat after last year\u2019s performance. A lot of things were said, and it kind of hurt a little bit, but I think it fueled us more than anything,\u201d Cox said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be prouder leading that team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Texas ended up finishing fifth, just a half-point behind fourth-place Georgia. Cox\u2019s college career was over, but less than four weeks later, she was back in the racing pool, competing in her preferred long course for the first time since August\u2014and for the first time ever, as a professional\u2014at the Arena Pro Swim Series event in Mesa, Ariz.<\/p>\n

Life, though, really has stayed the same as it would be any other summer, and Cox figures she won\u2019t notice any difference in the pro lifestyle until the next college season starts and she cannot compete in dual meets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have to go to compliance meetings anymore,\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s a perk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cox plans to stay in Austin and continue training at the University of Texas for the next three years. After almost four full years together, she has full confidence in Capitani.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s really not an intimidating person, but I remember being recruited and even through my freshman year I was so scared of her,\u201d Cox recalled. \u201cObviously, she\u2019s not intimidating at all. She cares about us as people more than anything, and once I realized that it was easy to start trusting her. We just figured each other out, and I think 95 percent of my progress is due to that.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cox first arrived at Texas having never made an international team, and three years later found herself just on the outside of a trip to the Olympics. It\u2019s the work that she put in over that span and even since that gives Capitani such firm confidence that Cox\u2019s upward trajectory will continue.<\/p>\n

She has figured out the commitment and effort required to become an elite swimmer, Capitani explained, so her mindset is to \u201coutwork everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe loves to race, she loves to go fast, and if she stopped loving that, she would be done,\u201d Capitani said. \u201cShe\u2019s not motivated by times\u2014she\u2019s motivated by racing and learning how to get her hand on the wall first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Capitani describes Cox as \u201cparticular\u201d and \u201csuperstitious,\u201d explaining that she has certain rituals that she will go through before every race and certain colors of clothing and swimsuits that she will and won\u2019t wear when she\u2019s at meets\u2014and one food item she absolutely has to eat.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>I eat a turkey sandwich before I swim every single race,\u201d Cox said. \u201cJimmy Johns is what I try to go for. Sometimes I have to be flexible\u2014when I go to international meets and what not and they don\u2019t have Jimmy Johns. Make sure it\u2019s a turkey sandwich but preferably Jimmy Johns.<\/p>\n

“I did it one meet, I swam a really good race, and I just never stopped doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next month, Cox will visit the same Jimmy Johns location in Indianapolis that she ate at before her final NCAA championships, as she prepares to battle for a spot on the World Championships team in her best event, the loaded 200 IM.<\/p>\n

But whatever happens in Indy\u2014if she makes Worlds or not\u2014her long-term plan won\u2019t change. She will keep on swimming\u2014and eating Jimmy Johns turkey sandwiches\u2014until her love of racing fades away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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