{"id":350649,"date":"2019-02-08T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=350649"},"modified":"2019-02-07T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:47:16","slug":"swimming-world-presents-how-they-train-laura-fornshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-world-presents-how-they-train-laura-fornshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming World Presents “How They Train: Laura Fornshell”"},"content":{"rendered":"

How They Train: Laura Fornshell<\/h2>\n

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Some athletes get better with age. Such is the case with Laura Fornshell<\/strong>, a 5-8, 155-pound junior at Fresno Pacific University. Fornshell was named the female Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference Championship Swimmer of the Meet in 2017 and 2018, and was a two-time College Swimming National Swimmer of the Week.<\/p>\n

Josh Christensen<\/strong>, her coach at FPU since 2016 before taking over as head women\u2019s coach last summer at Indiana State University, says, \u201cAs with all of our distance swimmers (at FPU), Laura put in the work to swim distance, but we always kept up the speed work as well. This allowed her to be extremely versatile from the 50 to the 1650 freestyle. We trained a lot of IM, too, which offered her variety and kept things from getting too monotonous. Laura had some great training partners who helped her mature and develop as well,”<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst and foremost, Laura is a racer who is at her best in the biggest moments,\u201d he says. \u201cHonestly, she usually outperforms her training\u2014a special athlete who just has a different gear when needed.\u00a0 She also feeds off the team atmosphere, which has really driven some of her improvements.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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To read more about Laura Fornshell and Coach Christensen’s training, check out the February 2019 issue of Swimming World, available now. Swimming World subscribers can download this issue in the Swimming World Vault<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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