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

Jay Holmes<\/strong> is an Aggie through and through. The head coach of the Texas A&M men\u2019s swimming team for 14 years and an assistant for the 18 years before that, Holmes has been with the program through plenty of highs and lows, and last month, when his team hosted the SEC championships, he knew that he was witnessing a special effort.<\/p>\n

In their first five appearances at the SEC championships<\/a>, the Aggie men had finished seventh, seventh, eighth, eighth and seventh. But with three sessions to go in the 2018 meet, Holmes\u2019 squad sat in second place, 13 points ahead of perennial powerhouse Georgia.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s a lot of fun. It\u2019s fun having the alums that have been with us before, how much fun they\u2019re having watching it. I\u2019m getting a lot of texts from them, and you can almost hear it in their voices, how excited they are that we\u2019re in the fight,\u201d Holmes said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the very first men\u2019s event of the meet, A&M diver Tyler Henschel<\/strong> won a conference championship on the 3-meter board, and teammate Sam Thornton<\/strong> later finished third on 1-meter. In the racing pool, Mauro<\/strong> Castillo<\/strong>, Angel<\/strong> Martinez<\/strong> and Brock Bonetti<\/strong> each secured multiple top-three individual finishes.<\/p>\n

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Mauro Castillo — Photo Courtesy: Thomas Campbell\/Texas A&M Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, in the last individual race, Castillo, Jonathan<\/strong> Tybur<\/strong>, Tanner<\/strong> Olson<\/strong> and Austin Van Overdam<\/strong> finished second, fourth, sixth and seventh, respectively in the 200 breast. That essentially locked the Aggies into second place, and they finished ahead of Georgia by a margin of 994 to 975.5. The Aggies believed they were primed for a leap forward, and they pulled it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cJason does a great job at getting kids to believe,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cHe\u2019s really good at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJason\u201d refers to Holmes\u2019 third-year assistant coach, Jason Calanog<\/strong>. Calanog arrived during the summer of 2015 from the Bolles School, where his duties included mentoring a young sprinter named Caeleb Dressel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When Holmes was looking for a new understudy, he was seeking someone different than him\u2014different coaching methods, different techniques, different personality. In Calanog, that\u2019s what he got.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully I\u2019m bringing something to the table, but there\u2019s things that I\u2019m going to miss, things that I\u2019m not going to be as aware of as someone who\u2019s different. Jason, he\u2019s different than me. He\u2019s probably more 95 miles per hour than I am. I\u2019m much more 55,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cAll you know is that Jason wants to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

===<\/p>\n

On the surface, Holmes and Calanog might not seem like a match destined to be. Holmes arrived in College Station in 1980 as a swimmer, left for one year and then came back as an assistant coach. He grew up in Corsicana, Texas, about two hours north of College Station, and he has never coached anywhere else.<\/p>\n

Calanog, meanwhile, is more than 20 years younger than Holmes, and before he arrived at A&M in 2015, he had no connection to the Aggies and just one year of collegiate coaching experience as an assistant.<\/p>\n

Calanog is the high-energy rah-rah type, compared to the calm and collected Holmes. But the way Calanog sees it, he\u2019s the perfect complement to his boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe school here is about tradition, so it\u2019s easy to see why people want to swim for him because of the traditions,\u201d Calanog said. \u201cFor me, I can bring the other side\u2014bring the excitement to a conservative school. That\u2019s what makes it a great partnership because you get two sides of the spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure, the two might bring different aspects of coaching, but, as both men emphasized, when it comes to the team and its goals, they are 100 percent on the same page.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe definitely have one goal, and obviously that\u2019s to achieve the highest pinnacle, whatever we can. Whether it\u2019s a national championship in a couple years or the SEC title,\u201d Calanog said. \u201cAs a coach, if you don\u2019t believe that you can win a national title, then why coach?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Calanog mentioned the eventual possibility of a national championship, Holmes grinned. He knows all too well that the Aggies have not even finished in the top ten at the national level since 1999, more than five years before Holmes took over from the retiring Mel Nash<\/strong> as head coach.<\/p>\n

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Jay Holmes & Jason Calanog — Photo Courtesy: Thomas Campbell\/Texas A&M Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

But Calanog\u2019s energy and belief have invigorated the veteran coach and the entire team. In a sport as difficult as swimming, Holmes believes, having that presence on deck daily makes the grind required to achieve big goals not only more tolerable but even fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery team out there is working hard. Every team wants to do well. There\u2019s just a little switch of a difference, and that\u2019s building a culture on your team,\u201d Holmes said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just fun whenever you get a group together that buys into the hook, line and sinker\u2014they\u2019re all in. I think any time you get a group together like that and they\u2019re all in, good things are going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

===<\/p>\n

Sam Kendricks<\/strong>, the meet announcer for the NCAA championships and other major championship meets in the U.S., had not watched the Aggie men compete in almost a year before the 2017 American Short Course Championships. That was the meet moved at the last minute from Austin, Texas, to San Antonio after a leak was discovered in the University of Texas pool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That weekend, under less-than-ideal conditions, Texas A&M stood out. Something about that team was different, Kendricks noticed, and the contrast was jarring.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first time I had seen A&M as a team in about a year, and I was blown away by the change in their attitude, the change in their approach to racing, the change in their approach to each other, the change in the way they interact with their coach,\u201d Kendricks said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThese are things that as an announcer, I\u2019m constantly watching. I can\u2019t talk about it\u2014I\u2019m not describing that action to the world. I\u2019m looking to see something I may have not seen before that maybe could translate into the pool. I started seeing that with A&M last year.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few weeks later, the team finished 16th at the NCAA championships, the highest finish for the Aggies in five years but the event that really made the country notice what was going on in College Station came eight months later.<\/p>\n

When Texas A&M departed the Big-12 conference in 2012, that put a damper on the school\u2019s longtime rivalry with the Texas Longhorns. Initially, all competition between the two schools ceased, but matchups have resumed in some sports in recent years\u2014including in swimming.<\/p>\n

During A&M\u2019s latter days in the Big-12, the Aggies-Longhorns rivalry in women\u2019s swimming was highly competitive, with A&M winning the conference title over Texas in four of the school\u2019s last six years in the Big-12. But for the men, legendary coach Eddie Reese and the Longhorns steamrolled the Aggies year after year.<\/p>\n

The last time Texas A&M beat Texas in a dual meet? 1962. For some context, Holmes arrived in College Station as a freshman in the fall of 1980.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was born in 1962, so that\u2019s easy for him to remember,\u201d Calanog joked.<\/p>\n

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Texas A&M fans at the SEC championships — Photo Courtesy: Thomas Campbell\/Texas A&M Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

In this year of many firsts for the Aggie men, they beat Texas\u2014the three-time defending NCAA champions in addition to the Aggies\u2019 geographic rival. On Nov. 3, the final margin was Texas A&M 158, Texas 142.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a big deal just because it had been so long,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cWe had two people up in the stands who were at that meet in \u201962. One of them was on the team, and one of them had graduated the year before and just happened to be at the meet. For them, that was pretty special, that they were at the last one and they were here when it happened now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, dual meet wins only mean so much in swimming, but the Aggies backed up that success with their runner-up finish at the SEC meet. This month, they get another chance at the NCAA championships, a meet where they have not finished in the top ten since 1999.<\/p>\n

===<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a photo that hangs in the Texas A&M men\u2019s locker room of a pool deck team meeting. The meeting took place at the end of 2016 American Short Course Championships in Austin, and the swimmers organized it themselves. What was said that evening, Holmes later found out, was the spark that set his program on the course it\u2019s on now.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Thomas Campbell\/Texas A&M Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

The Aggie men typically use the American Short Course Championships as a last chance meet for those who have not yet qualified for the NCAA championships, but it\u2019s also a \u201cteam meet,\u201d as Holmes describes it. Everyone on the team, even those already safely qualified, attends and races in some event. It\u2019s the last time the entire team competes together.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Holmes remembers, only two swimmers had qualified for NCAAs already, then-sophomores Castillo and Bonetti. That left the rest of the team scrambling to get cuts\u2014and the men hated being in that situation. So at the end of the meet, they gathered and made a resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that team meeting, supposedly what went down is they looked at each other and said, \u2018Next year, we are not doing this meet like this,\u2019\u201d Holmes said. \u201cThe thing they said they didn\u2019t want to happen again is to be at that meet in such a desperate situation.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In that moment, the Texas A&M men\u2019s swimming program made a commitment to be better.\u00a0No more scrambling at a last-chance meet just to qualify for the NCAA championships and maybe scratching out a few points at that meet. That wouldn’t be good enough anymore.<\/p>\n

The team finished 25th at NCAAs that year after not scoring either of the previous two seasons, and, in 2017, the Aggies jumped all the way up to 16th. Then came this season, on track to be their best since Holmes took over as head coach.<\/p>\n

Calanog helped instill the belief that the Aggies could build towards a national championship, but the team\u2019s expectations for itself were set that day in Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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