{"id":328393,"date":"2018-09-10T13:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=328393"},"modified":"2018-09-10T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:28:13","slug":"gregg-troy-goes-in-depth-about-his-storied-coaching-career-and-caeleb-dressel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/gregg-troy-goes-in-depth-about-his-storied-coaching-career-and-caeleb-dressel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Troy Goes In Depth About His Storied Coaching Career and Caeleb Dressel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swimming World TV’s\u00a0<\/em>Brent Rutemiller\u00a0<\/strong>sat down with former head coach of the University of Florida\u00a0Gregg Troy\u00a0<\/strong>to talk in depth about his storied coaching career.<\/p>\n

Troy recently retired<\/a> from college coaching after the 2017-18 school year but is still coaching a small elite group at Gator Swim Club in Gainesville.<\/p>\n

Troy is currently the coach of\u00a0Caeleb Dressel\u00a0<\/strong>and Troy talked about the similarities and differences (4:39) between Dressel and other superstars that Troy has coached. Troy coaches Dressel along with\u00a0Jan Switkowski<\/strong>,\u00a0Mark Szaranek\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Ryan Lochte<\/strong> at Gator Swim Club. Troy compares his coach to swimmer relationship with Dressel to\u00a0Tom Brady\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Bill Belichick\u00a0<\/strong>(5:25) in how they handle themselves.<\/p>\n

Troy used that Brady – Belichick comparison as a way to explain how a lot of the older swimmers in the sport such as\u00a0Nathan Adrian\u00a0<\/strong>are knowledgable about swimming and know exactly what they need every day to make themselves better.<\/p>\n

Troy pinpointed what makes Dressel so great (6:35) including his ability to make a change during a meet. “You can see him get better.”<\/p>\n

Troy also gave a grade of the 2018 summer and how he felt the swims went with Dressel’s transition into the professional ranks<\/a>\u00a0(7:53) and if any negative performances can take a toll on him (8:28).<\/p>\n

He said the negative points in a season can define a career since every swimmer encounters them. It is just a matter of how each swimmer can react to those downs.<\/p>\n

Troy said short course isn’t exactly off the table yet (9:08) since Dressel’s NCAA career is complete.<\/p>\n

Gregg Troy is staying in Gainesville and talked about how not training with the college team will be different for him and Dressel (10:37). He also talked about how his life is different now in September without being at the beginning of a college season (11:36).<\/p>\n