Before being honored with the Male Performance of the Year and Male Athlete of the Year awards at Golden Goggles,\u00a0Caeleb Dressel\u00a0<\/strong>stopped on the red carpet to talk with\u00a0Swimming World<\/em> about his dominant summer and his return to college swimming at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n

Dressel explained how thinking back on his record-tying seven-gold-medal performance at the World Championships only urged him back into hard training and towards his final season in NCAA swimming and towards next summer’s major long course championship meets.<\/p>\n

Dressel also discussed his surprising swim in the 200 IM from the Purdue Invite this past weekend, where he became the ninth-fastest performer in history for short course yards, and\u00a0he explained how he could display his versatility in the future.<\/p>\n