{"id":367276,"date":"2019-05-05T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=367276"},"modified":"2019-05-04T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T23:42:11","slug":"swimming-world-presents-mens-ncaa-division-i-mini-feature-daniel-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-world-presents-mens-ncaa-division-i-mini-feature-daniel-carr\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming World Presents “Men’s NCAA Division I Mini-Feature: Daniel Carr”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Men’s NCAA Division I Mini-Feature: Daniel Carr<\/span><\/h1>\n

Second Chance Pays Off<\/span><\/h2>\n

In a four-day meet where Cal utterly dominated the NCAA of the meet happened 30 minutes after the Friday morning prelims session\u2014when most of the swimmers, coaches and fans had returned to their respective hotels for an afternoon of rest. It was an ordeal that started with Cal coach Dave Durden emphatically gesticulating behind the blocks and ended one hour later with Durden on his back!<\/p>\n

With Cal sophomore Daniel Carr swimming in the sixth heat of the 100 back, Durden watched for the first 45 yards as he normally does, with Carr swimming directly in front of the Cal swimmers and coaches in lane 1. But when Carr reached the flags, Durden noticed that the backstroke wedge was still in the water! With Carr swimming at top speed into his second turn, he was about to smack his feet.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Carr nicked the wedge, and it popped into the air. Carr\u2019s reaction was the same as any normal swimmer: he was rattled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to overkick, trying to compensate for that mistake,\u201d Carr said. \u201cI was thinking, \u2018What did I just hit? What happened?\u2019 It kind of threw off the second 50 of my 100 back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back on deck, Durden began screaming at the official behind lane 1, which he later admitted, \u201cI probably shouldn\u2019t have done.\u201d But in the moment, Durden only knew that thanks to circumstances that could be controlled, Carr had lost his opportunity to put forth his best performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI let the emotion of that get the best of me because you know how hard athletes work to get to that point,\u201d Durden said. \u201cYou want things to go right, and you talk about controlling the controllables. That\u2019s very much a controllable: ledge comes out, gets out of the way, and you allow that athlete to have a great performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the race, Carr did his best to move on. He was slated to lead off Cal\u2019s 200 medley relay a few minutes later, and he helped the Bears earn the second seed for finals. And afterward, Durden received some news: his swimmer would get another chance at the 100 back.<\/p>\n

To read the full story of Daniel Carr’s second chance swim at the NCAA D1 Champs,
\ncheck out the May 2019<\/a><\/span> issue of Swimming World Magazine<\/em>, available now!<\/p>\n

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[PHOTO CREDIT: PETER H. BICK]<\/p>\n

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