{"id":377744,"date":"2019-07-07T08:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=377744"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T15:38:13","slug":"steve-roush-to-lead-the-american-swim-coaches-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/steve-roush-to-lead-the-american-swim-coaches-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Roush To Lead The American Swim Coaches Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming World sources have confirmed that <strong>Steve Roush<\/strong>, 60, has been offered the position of Chief Executive Officer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/swimmingcoach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Swim Coaches Association<\/a>\u00a0to replace <strong>John Leonard,<\/strong> who will be retiring on January 1st, 2020 as its longtime Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>Roush has been a proven advocate for elite athletes over the years through his various roles as a collegiate swim coach, executive for USA Swimming, sports partnership director for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), and USOC\u2019s chief of sport performance.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, Roush was widely considered one of the most active advocates of athletes in the American Olympic movement. In the six years leading to the Beijing Olympics, he made more than two dozen trips to China to ensure optimal conditions &#8211; everything from living quarters, to the food they ate, to their training facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to the USOC, Roush was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/roush-snyder-resign-at-usa-swimming\/\">top executive<\/a> at USA Swimming for six years, and before that had been an assistant swim coach at Northwestern and Wisconsin Universities.<\/p>\n<p>Roush found himself in the middle of the 2008 USA Olympic Trials suit controversy when the \u201cShiny Suit\u201d era of swimming was dawning. There was discussion among leaders in the sport that the new technical racing suits should be banned.<\/p>\n<p>The new suits, made of polyurethane and other non-textile, impermeable materials that turned swimmers into &#8220;speed boats&#8221;, a term coined by Germany&#8217;s 2008 double Olympic sprint champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/germanys-fastest-female-swimmer-ever-britta-steffen-to-be-inducted-into-ishof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Britta Steffen<\/strong><\/a>, were so controversial that the Australian Olympic Committee asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn a decision by FINA, swimming&#8217;s international governing body, approving use of the suits. The request was based on the grounds that the suits were performance-enhancing &#8220;devices&#8221; prohibited under FINA Rule SW 10.7. The CAS upheld FINA&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Since the suits were considered legal, USA Swimming&#8217;s International Relations Committee took another approach to get the suits banned. The committee, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-coach-james-jim-martin-wood-leaves-unparalleled-legacy-to-aquatic-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jim Wood<\/strong><\/a>, recommended that the suits not be allowed at the U.S. Olympic Trials due to the possibility that all swimmers may not have access to the new technology. The recommendation was rejected by USA Swimming\u2019s Board of Directors. Roush, as the associate executive director of USA Swimming at the time, had to announce the controversial decision.<\/p>\n<p>Debate about the suits split the world swimming community, some denying the apparel made any difference, many more accepting the obvious truth: the impact was massive and changed the dynamic of swimming in significant ways. That impact is still felt to this day: the top 10 and 100 best performances lists (multiple entries per swimmer) are stacked high with efforts swum in 2008-09 in shiny suits, the era accounting for between 60 and 80% of all top 10s and 100s across all strokes in sprint events and an average across all events and distances of more than 50%.<\/p>\n<p>No change to swimming in history, such as the introduction of goggles and wave-breaker lanes, produced the kind of impact on progression deep through the sport like that delivered by shiny suits. The delivery of that added speed and advantage was not even across all swimmers, nor distances, nor events, some morphologies and types of swimmer gaining more than others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-swimming-amends-rules-regarding-swimsuits\/\">The suits were eventually banned in 2009,<\/a>\u00a0in the wake of 18 months of relentless campaigning by the man who named them &#8216;shiny suits&#8217;, <strong>Craig Lord<\/strong> at <strong>Nick Thierry<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>SwimNews.<\/em> The focus of leading federations, led by USA Swimming, ASCA and its peer body in global waters, the <strong>World Swimming Coaches Association<\/strong>, determined to make the FINA leadership change course. A statement from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/bob-bowman-pulls-michael-phelps-from-international-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bob Bowman<\/strong><\/a> after a FINA Congress vote in Rome to ban shiny suits noted that Michael Phelps would not be showing up to FINA events until a date was set for a return to textile suits.<\/p>\n<p>Roush has some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/30mostswimfluential-john-leonard\/\">big shoes to fill when Leonard<\/a> officially steps down. The American Swim Coaches Association\u2019s core missions has been leadership, education, and certification. All three of those missions have remained firm. 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