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Jarod Arroyo<\/strong> has crafted the last several years of his swimming life to reduce uncertainty. It\u2019s why the Puerto Rican record holder deferred his enrollment<\/a> at Arizona State University after graduating high school in 2019, hoping to enroll after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It\u2019s why he relocated to Tempe in high school to train with Pitchfork Aquatics.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s why, amid the uncertainty wrought by COVID-19 on the college swimming season, Arroyo found peace in the Sun Devils\u2019 announcement last month that its entire team would redshirt<\/a> the 2020-21 season as the NCAA and its conference sort out competition dynamics. It\u2019s another item on the list of possible obstacles cleared, Arroyo knowing exactly where his training and college eligibility stand.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly for me, it couldn\u2019t have been more perfect,\u201d Jarod Arroyo told Swimming World<\/em>. \u201cI know for other athletes, that\u2019s not necessarily the case because they don\u2019t have the competition of the Pac-12 and NCAAs, but in terms of me and my swimming, it\u2019s perfect for me. I don\u2019t really have any uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arroyo has played the long game angling toward the Tokyo Olympics. While the COVID-19 postponement has changed the trajectory, it hasn\u2019t altered the journey\u2019s focus.<\/p>\n

Arroyo moved from Utah back to his native Arizona at age 16. He enrolled at ASU Prep Tempe and was part of the inaugural graduating class<\/a> at that charter school in 2019, continuing his swimming tutelage under Fernando Canales<\/strong> at Pitchfork Aquatics. The gap year before college was aimed at best preparing to reach Tokyo.<\/p>\n

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The change to the plan wrought by the coronavirus has been an unexpected complication, but one he\u2019s taking in stride.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s been like a roller coaster of emotion,\u201d Arroyo said. \u201cIt is a big letdown not having the Olympics this year, especially when I was so close to qualifying and on track to qualify. But after quarantining for five months or however long it was, I came to the realization that everything happens for the reason and next year, if they have the games, I\u2019ll still be able to compete. And since then, I\u2019ve just tried to keep my head up and focus on what I can do instead of what I can\u2019t control, which is whether the Games will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pause in competition came just as Arroyo\u2019s momentum was cresting. At the TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Knoxville in January, he set a best time in the 400 individual medley<\/a> at 4:16.67, bettering his Puerto Rican record. The time brought Arroyo within a second of the Olympic A cut (4:15.84) and perpetuated his confidence that it was only a matter of time before he whittled away that last eight-tenths of a second.<\/p>\n

That swim came on the heels of a productive summer of 2019, Arroyo doing the World Championships-Pan American Games double. In Gwangju, he finished 18th in the 400 IM, 24th in the 200 IM and 30th in the 200 butterfly. With a quick turnaround to Pan Ams in Lima, Peru, he took fifth in the 400 IM<\/a>, albeit more than four seconds slower than at Worlds and six seconds shy of his Pro Swim Series time. He was 10th at Pan Ams in the 200 fly and 10th in prelims of the 200 IM before withdrawing from the B final.<\/p>\n

But then came COVID-19, the incremental shutdown of the swimming world in March and a halt to that progress. Since then, Arroyo describes the challenge of restarting as primarily mental. He\u2019s been in the water since early July, an early return that he\u2019s grateful for, after trying to stay in shape at home during quarantine. He\u2019s been elevated to training with Bob Bowman\u2019s<\/strong> elite group at Pitchfork.<\/p>\n

The physical perseverance will come with time and effort, to which he\u2019s no stranger. But in talking with Canales, he\u2019s tried to square away the mental aspect.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Canales) told me, you never lose that good work that you do in the pool unless you take like a year off,\u201d Arroyo said. \u201cWe called it a pause in my momentum. It didn\u2019t go away and it didn\u2019t get better; it just paused for a while. So now that pools are opening up and going into the fall season, I\u2019m deciding to continue that momentum gain, and I feel like I haven\u2019t lost anything, I just need to get back to it. It\u2019s been more challenging than I thought, but I think that\u2019s what everyone is feeling right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The emotional impact of competition is never far from Arroyo\u2019s mind, given what representing Puerto Rico means to him. Such is his profile as a Puerto Rican athlete that three years ago, he was one of 25 athletes to earn a $25,000 training grant<\/a> from one of the island\u2019s favorite sons, actor and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda,<\/strong> to defray costs of training and travel. It even came with an invite to see Hamilton<\/em> with Miranda in San Juan, though Arroyo\u2019s training obligations meant he had to decline.<\/p>\n

With all the island has been through, from the leveling by Hurricane Maria in 2018 to a series of damaging earthquakes<\/a> that have roiled throughout this year to the specter of COVID-19 that luckily hasn\u2019t hit the island as hard<\/a> as many other places, it offers Arroyo a certain perspective. And in the mental battle to remain on track, his focus on what it means to swim for Puerto Rico is integral.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepresenting Puerto Rico for me is such a great honor,\u201d Jarod Arroyo said. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful that I have the opportunity to do that. \u2026 Even though (Puerto Ricans) have been through so many trials and hardship, they still get so much happiness out of life, and to be able to represent people like that, it\u2019s such a great honor for me personally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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