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Morning Splash<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Madison Kennedy<\/strong> finished third at Olympic Trials. In 2016, at 28 years old, she had her best shot at making the exclusive Olympic team in the 50 free\u2014she entered the meet with the top 2016 time of any U.S. female\u2014only to come up short.<\/p>\n

Kennedy finished two tenths behind Trials winner Abbey Weitzeil<\/strong> and 15-hundredths behind runner-up Simone<\/strong> Manuel<\/strong> in the 50 final. Both women, teenagers at the time, had already qualified for the team in the 100 free, but not Kennedy. She trained for seven years after college and then waited until the last day of the meet for that gut punch. That brutal gut punch.<\/p>\n

Two years later, Kennedy is 30 and married. She still lives in Charlotte, where she first moved to train with David Marsh<\/strong> and his elite squad at SwimMAC Carolina. She\u2019s still swimming, but not with a high-profile professional squad. And as for regrets: \u201cNo\u2014and that\u2019s not just a canned response,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

Kennedy is not one for canned responses. She\u2019s something of a free spirit, at least by the standards of a relatively buttoned-up sport like swimming\u2014rainbow hair and all. She\u2019s stubborn, and she admits that. So she will live with the results of doing things her way.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaybe people would say, \u2018She could have trained more. She could have done this more,\u2019\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cMaybe even David would say that. Maybe even Teri (McKeever, who coached Kennedy at Cal) would say that. Maybe even my parents would say that.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cHonestly, I did everything I thought I needed to do. I had no regrets. Really. That was my best time at the time. I swam as best I can. I did really well. I did my best. There can be no regrets or sadness.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kennedy left Omaha bummed that she didn\u2019t get the experience of traveling to Rio\u2014she had never been\u2014and of competing against the best in the world in her events, but losing out on the title \u201cOlympian\u201d never bothered her.<\/p>\n

In addition to swimming, Kennedy had been working two part-time jobs in the leadup to Trials: as an \u201ceducator\u201d (in sales) at Lululemon and teaching an exercise class several times per week. She made most, but not all, of Marsh\u2019s practices. After Trials, Kennedy resumed working at Lululemon, resumed teaching her exercise classes and continued swimming\u2014but on her own.<\/p>\n

Four days per week, typically Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. No more than 3000 yards or meters per practice. She has learned to trust her body to determine what she needs in a given practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I get older\u2014and I\u2019m not that old\u2014that\u2019s what I don\u2019t think about, \u2018I need to do this time,\u2019 or \u2018I need to have all these yards in,\u2019\u201d Kennedy said, taking on a nagging tone. \u201cIt\u2019s just, \u2018What feels good today?\u2019 or \u2018What do you need to do even though you don\u2019t want to do it? Okay, we\u2019ll do this hypoxic set or this dive set?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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In her solo quest, Kennedy relied heavily on some of the tactics she picked up from her previous coaches, particularly McKeever and Marsh. Kennedy reflected on how McKeever drilled confidence into her swimmers to perform under any circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018Dang, she was teaching all of this stuff so long ago,\u2019 and most of us don\u2019t ever really get to implement that,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cJust to listen to yourself, to think about what you really need to do and be a strong person\u2014it doesn\u2019t matter if you are a strong woman, strong man, strong whatever\u2014just be yourself, strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n

After that first year on her own, Kennedy found herself back at U.S. Nationals and back in the final of the 50 free, but she couldn\u2019t keep pace. She ended up seventh in 24.95. What happened? Well, during her first year of training solo, she had avoided long course like the plague.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just didn\u2019t do it,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

Kennedy had spent a large chunk of that season training in a 33\u2153-meter pool\u2014and when she swam her 50 free races that year, she noticed herself fading about two-thirds of the way through the race. So she added long course back to the program, swimming Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Olympic-sized format.<\/p>\n

The positive results have showed: Her 50 free times so far in 2018 have included a 25.07 at the TYR Pro Swim Series Mesa, a 24.88 at the Kentucky Derby Pro meet and a 25.11 at the Charlotte UltraSwim.<\/p>\n

She learned her lesson: Long course training helps. Who knew? (\u201cWell, everybody,\u201d Kennedy interjected.)<\/p>\n

Kennedy was a personality psych major at Cal, and she sees herself eventually pursuing a Masters degree in that field\u2014and her current sales job at Lululemon, Kennedy said, is \u201cfor sure a study in personality psychology.\u201d But in the meantime, she\u2019s going to keep swimming and showing up to big meets throughout the year \u201cas long as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI look pretty good. I feel pretty good. I\u2019m swimming pretty well. It\u2019s fun,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cPeople walk by (at a meet), and they\u2019re like, \u2018\u2018Oh, Madison, she\u2019s still hanging on,\u2019 and if that\u2019s what they think, that\u2019s fine. But that\u2019s not how it always is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure, Kennedy would like to maybe break an American record or add to her catalogue of experiences that already includes trips to the Pan Pacific Championships, Pan American Games and Short Course World Championships. More trips would be fun\u2014but that\u2019s not why she\u2019s swimming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to break an American record. There\u2019s cool things\u2014like going to the Olympics, maybe\u2014but I don\u2019t think those are my goals,\u201d she said. \u201cI guess it would just be to have success the way I want to be swimming.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, Kennedy\u2019s motivations for swimming are not the same as your typical pro swimmer who\u2019s 30 years old. And no, maybe she\u2019s not \u201call-in for 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

The life advice Kennedy might pass along to a younger post-collegiate swimmer debating their future in the sport, the people \u201cwho are 23, and I\u2019m friends with them, and you know who they are?\u201d Also much different from the standard party line.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet to the bottom of why you\u2019re swimming,\u201d she said, and do what fills you up\u2014if that\u2019s the standard 10 practices per week or, like Kennedy, just four.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be your whole identity, but it is my identity. I am a swimmer,\u201d she said. \u201cWe always tell them not to be that, but it\u2019s because people are only swimmers. Be a swimmer, and be a girlfriend, or be a boyfriend, or be a this, but be a swimmer for sure because you won\u2019t have it all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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