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

Cullen Jones<\/strong> never figured he wouldn\u2019t make the Olympic team in 2016, even with the talented field that was waiting for him in the 50 free at Olympic Trials. He was the reigning Olympic silver medalist, and he had a habit of stepping up his game in the biggest moments.<\/p>\n

But in the 50 free final, Jones touched third. Nathan Adrian<\/strong> won in 21.51, one hundredth ahead of Anthony Ervin<\/strong> (21.52). Jones was two tenths back in 21.75.<\/p>\n

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Not prepared for the fallout of finishing third, Jones took it hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was messed up,\u201d he said. \u201cI guess making teams was something I expected to do, no matter where I was. I always knew that I was going to race fast, and I kind of counted on that. So I think it was big that I missed the team because I had to do a little bit of soul-searching after that.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At 32 years old, Jones strongly considered calling it a career, then and there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking about quitting,\u201d Jones said, before correcting himself. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, not quitting\u2014retiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

But not a single person Jones consulted suggested that maybe he should be done. Family, friends and then-fianc\u00e9e Rupi Desai<\/strong> all urged him to give it another four years. Jones\u2019 mother reminded him that LeBron James<\/strong>, then 31, was nowhere close to retiring from the NBA and that Kobe Bryant<\/strong> hadn\u2019t retired until he was 37.<\/p>\n

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And then in August, the 35-year-old Ervin swam in the 50 free Olympic final\u2014the one Jones had expected to be in all along\u2014and Ervin won gold. Jones was happy for his friend, who he had trained with for several months at SwimMAC Carolina in Charlotte, and also inspired.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of me felt like, if he can do it, I can do it, so why should I stop?\u201d Jones said. \u201cTony has moved from place to place\u2014he calls himself a nomad, and he really is. He doesn\u2019t stay in any one place for too long, and I think something about that that I took from him was, \u2018I need to make a change.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

By late October, Jones had resolved to come back, but he needed something different in training. Jones\u2019 run with coach David Marsh in Charlotte had lasted for nine extremely successful years, but it was time for something different.<\/p>\n

So he called Todd<\/strong> DeSorbo<\/strong>, the associate head coach at NC State in charge of the sprint group. Jones had swum at NC State from 2003 to 2006, long before DeSorbo came in with new head coach Braden Holloway<\/strong> in 2011. Jones wanted to train with DeSorbo\u2019s sprint group, and while he was there, he planned on finish up his required credits for graduation.<\/p>\n

DeSorbo and Holloway were enthusiastic when Jones asked if he could return to the Wolfpack, even if they did have a few initial reservations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s always great to have a postgrad or professional swimmer that has ties to your program back in your program,\u201d DeSorbo said. \u201cBut we wanted to sure he was going to be a good influence and have a good attitude. We\u2019ve always heard that he is, but you always have those slight concerns when anybody from the outside comes in. For the most part, though, we were pretty excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when Jones arrived on deck in Raleigh January 1, he was out of shape. Since the Olympic Trials final July 2, he had not been training, and he got to NC State 20 lbs. overweight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Todd was just like, \u2018Oh crap,\u2019\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

On day one, Jones told DeSorbo and Wes Foltz<\/strong>, NC State\u2019s director of operations and assistant sprint coach, that he wanted to and in fact planned on making the World Championships team in less than six months\u2019 time. The coaches were skeptical.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTodd didn\u2019t expect the commitment I was willing to put forward,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWhen I told him I wanted to make the Worlds, team, he looked at me kind of crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Very quickly, Jones got up to speed. He trained mostly by himself for the first three months as the college team was preparing for its spring championship meets. DeSorbo put Jones through aerobic work and yardage far above what he was used to with Marsh, and Jones quickly shed the excess weight.<\/p>\n

After the NCAA championships, Jones jumped into full-scale workouts with the college team, and he fed off the energy and enthusiasm present on the Wolfpack pool deck.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not sprinkling pixie dust on everybody to make them fast. They work really hard, but I think the majority is the environment on deck, the electricity, the energy, the passion on pool deck from the coaches, and it bleeds into the team,\u201d DeSorbo said. \u201cI think (Jones) is definitely feeling the effects of that, and he enjoys it. Being an older guy, getting back into that environment has been something exciting and different and new for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feed off that every day when I have to be up at 5:30 in the morning, and Todd and Braden are singing songs at the top of their voice,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt\u2019s that kind of enthusiasm that gets everyone awake and everyone going, and you see some of the best practices in the morning because everyone gets into it and starts tearing it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swimming with college kids so much younger than him, Jones has embraced the challenges of keeping up daily, even if that means dedicating an enormous amount of time to recovery, and he\u2019s learned to accept the challenges of DeSorbo\u2019s challenging sets head-on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one thing I\u2019ve learned from the college guys is to not cry and moan when the coach puts up a set,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they put something up, my first thought is, \u2018That looks so hard.\u2019 Those guys look at it as, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s do that.\u2019 It\u2019s a big breath of fresh air.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through his training, Jones began to make a believer of DeSorbo, who called Jones one of the most talented and explosive swimmers he had ever coached. By May, DeSorbo agreed that despite his long layoff, maybe Jones did have a shot to get back onto the World Championship team as soon as this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said to me, \u2018Wow, you might actually be able to do this,\u2019\u201d Jones recalled. \u2018I was like, \u2018Yeah, I planned on that. I\u2019m working my butt off here.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also that month, Jones got married to Desai\u2014now Rupi Desai Jones. The two had been together for seven years, so Jones feels that his life hardly changed after his wedding.<\/p>\n

He missed about a week of training for the wedding, but when he came back, DeSorbo saw Jones\u2019 best block of training yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince his wedding, his training has gone to a whole new level,\u201d DeSorbo said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s attributed to Rupi and getting married, but I think he\u2019s training at a level now over the past two weeks that I can see why he\u2019s an Olympic gold medalist, a world record-holder, a former American record-holder. He\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSorbo explained that he won\u2019t put any time or qualification expectations on Jones for this summer or any summer, just like he didn\u2019t tell Ryan Held<\/strong> last summer that he expected Held to make the Olympic team\u2014which he did, finishing third in the 100 free.<\/p>\n

In the NC State sprint group, it\u2019s all about fulfilling expectations of effort on a daily basis, and so far, Jones has done everything DeSorbo has asked.<\/p>\n

But even if it doesn\u2019t work out this year for Jones, he could well end up making a mark on the Worlds team indirectly. Jones has tried to impart his professional approach and his accountability to the NC State sprinters, including Held and the quickly-improving Justin<\/strong> Ress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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And after so many years training in Charlotte, Jones has developed a close friendship Michael<\/strong> Chadwick<\/strong>, who enters World Championship Trials with the No. 2 time in the U.S. in the 100 free.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to think that when I say things to him, it matters, because I\u2019ve known him since he was about that tall,\u201d Jones said, holding up his hand about four feet off the ground. He\u2019s definitely one of those guys that you\u2019re going to see on the Olympic team at some point. He\u2019s going to be part of the next group of sprinters. If we can get him to believe that, we\u2019ll have a great relay.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, though, Jones has no intentions of leaving the sprinting to those in their early 20s. After admittedly losing focus at points over the past four years, and he won\u2019t let that happen again in what he insists will be his final run at an Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that if I was going to do it, I had to do it right,\u201d he said. \u201cIf this is going to be it\u2014and this is definitely going to be it\u2014I want to do it right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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