{"id":471804,"date":"2021-05-08T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=471804"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:51:07","slug":"swimming-world-presents-qa-with-orinda-aquatics-coach-steve-haufler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-world-presents-qa-with-orinda-aquatics-coach-steve-haufler\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming World Presents – Q&A with Orinda Aquatics Coach Steve Haufler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Q&A with Orinda Aquatics Coach Steve Haufler<\/span><\/h3>\n

By Michael J. Stott<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to his videos and ASCA World Clinic presentations, Steve Haufler is one of the country\u2019s most visible and successful stroke technicians. Overlooked are his skills at developing young staff members and his enormous success in securing 19 consecutive Orinda Moraga Pool Association team championships in one of the nation\u2019s most competitive (17 Olympians) summer swimming leagues.<\/p>\n

Coach Haufler\u2019s OCC teams have won the last 19 Orinda Moraga Pool Association summer league championships. As a swimmer himself, Haufler has recorded 85 individual Masters Top 10 finishes (1988-2020) and 21 relay Top 10 performances (1997-2005).<\/p>\n

CREDENTIALS<\/span>
\n\u2022 University of California Santa Barbara, B.A., physical education, 1974; Colorado State University (Fort Collins), M.Ed., 1978
\n\u2022 Masters thesis, \u201cSurvey of the Family Sports Environment and Attitudes toward Recreational and AAU Age Group Swimming\u201d
\n\u2022 Director of Aquatics\/Head Swimming Coach, Orinda Country Club, 1999-present
\n\u2022 Assistant Fall Coach, Orinda Aquatics, 1999-present
\n\u2022 Head Coach, Montclair Swim Team (Oakland, Calif.), 1981-96
\n\u2022 Age Group Coordinator, Concord Pleasant Hill Swim Team (now Terrapins), 1980-81
\n\u2022 Head Coach, Loveland (Colo.) Swim Club, 1978-80
\n\u2022 Graduate Coaching Assistant, UCSB women\u2019s team, 1974-76
\n\u2022 Head Coach, Canyon Swim & Racquet Club (El Sobrante, Calif.), summers, 1972-76
\n\u2022 Owner, Haufler Aquatics Swim School (Oakland, Calif.), 1981-2010
\n\u2022 Featured speaker, American Swimming Coaches Association World Clinic, 2007-present
\n\u2022 GoSwim Productions, featured speaker on nine videos, 2008-16
\n\u2022 Group and team clinician in Dubai, Ireland, Iceland, Sweden, Peru, South Africa
\n\u2022 Senior team captain at UCSB<\/p>\n

Q. SWIMMING WORLD:<\/strong><\/span> How did you get your start in aquatics?
\nA. COACH STEVE HAUFLER:<\/span><\/strong> As a swim instructor at age 14 at Canyon Pool Swim School in El Sobrante, Calif.<\/p>\n

SW: <\/strong><\/span>Between your teaching, coaching and videos, you have helped thousands learn to swim. How did you learn?
\nSH:<\/span><\/strong> With a private instructor in my grandparents\u2019 backyard pool at age 4. After that, I took lessons at various city programs until I started more advanced instruction when I was 10.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/span><\/strong> Who were some of your seminal influences?
\nSH:<\/span><\/strong> Fred and Bill Brown were my summer league and AAU age group coaches. Fred continued as my high school coach. Later on, it was Jack Flanagan at Diablo Valley College and Rick Rowland at University of California, Santa Barbara. As a graduate coaching assistant with the women\u2019s team at UCSB in 1974-76, I shared the pool deck with men\u2019s coach Gregg Wilson. Gregg brought Nort Thornton\u2019s teaching and training philosophy to UCSB. I had a front-row seat!<\/p>\n

SW:<\/span><\/strong> You coached the Montclair Swim Team prior to taking over Orinda Country Club. Do you miss the (USA Swimming) club environment?
\nSH:<\/span><\/strong> Each fall, after my summer season has ended, about 40 of my more dedicated swimmers continue to train with me at Orinda Country Club (OCC). We register these athletes with Orinda Aquatics, and they can compete in fall USA Swimming meets and Junior Olympics if they qualify. So, I coach and train swimmers for USA Swimming events for three months out of the year. That feels about right.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/span><\/strong> What differences do you see in coaching summer league vs. year-round swimmers?
\nSH:<\/span><\/strong> Summer league is teaching and sprinting. Year-round swimming is teaching and training for a variety of distances. However, even though our summer league events are 25s and 100 IMs for 8-and-unders, and 50s and 100 IMs for older kids, I find myself designing practices\u2014at least for 9-10s and up\u2014that prepare swimmers for the 200 IM.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/span><\/strong> What differences in age group swimming do you see between now vs. the 1970s and 1980s?
\nSH:<\/span><\/strong> Coaches have come a long way in the understanding of optimal stroke technique and how bodies move in the water. Now preparation for competition is not just about maximizing hours, volume and doing the hardest sets. It\u2019s become a more interesting sport for coaches and swimmers who want to pay attention to HOW they are swimming.<\/p>\n


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Swimming World May 2021 Issue<\/span><\/h1>\n

FEATURES<\/p>\n

014<\/span> WOMEN\u2019S NCAAs: A NEW NO. 1<\/strong>
\n<\/span>For the first time in the history of the NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Championships\u2014since 1982\u2014the University of Virginia finished first. It was also the first time it cracked the top 5 with its previous highest finish sixth in 2019.<\/p>\n

    \n
  • VIRGINIA\u2019S ROAD TO HISTORY<\/strong><\/span>
    \nby Dan D\u2019Addona<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • NC STATE ADDS TO ACC DOMINANCE<\/strong><\/span>
    \nby Dan D\u2019Addona<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • THE TALK OF THE MEET: MAGGIE MacNEIL<\/strong><\/span>
    \nby John Lohn<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    018 <\/span>MEN\u2019S NCAAs: THE PERFECT RETIREMENT GIFT<\/strong><\/span>
    \nDays before their coach, Eddie Reese, officially announced his retirement from coaching after 43 years, the Texas men\u2019s team won their 15th men\u2019s NCAA national team championship.<\/p>\n

      \n
    • THIS ONE\u2019S FOR EDDIE!<\/span><\/strong>
      \nby Andy Ross<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • SCINTILLATING PERFORMANCES: SHAINE CASAS & RYAN HOFFER<\/span><\/strong>
      \nby John Lohn<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • PATIENCE REWARDED: MAX McHUGH & NICK ALBIERO<\/span><\/strong>
      \nby Andy Ross<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      022<\/span> NCAA D-II CHAMPS: SOME THINGS NEVER SEEM TO CHANGE<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Andy Ross<\/strong>
      \nA year into the pandemic that has completely changed our world, Queens University of Charlotte brought about some stability to the 2021 NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships by sweeping their sixth straight women\u2019s and men\u2019s team titles.<\/p>\n

      023<\/span> NO LIMITS!<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby David Rieder<\/strong>
      \nClaire Curzan has been swimming fast since she was a young age grouper and has continued to do so in high school. Last March, she came within 13-hundredths of the American record in the short course 100 fly, and in April, she found herself within 22-hundredths of the long course U.S. best. She\u2019s versatile, she\u2019s coachable, she has international experience, and she\u2019s moved from a fringe Olympic contender to an Olympic favorite. Curzan is only 16, and her promising future couldn\u2019t be brighter.<\/p>\n

      026<\/span> TAKEOFF TO TOKYO: WHEN IRISH EYES WEREN\u2019T SMILING<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby John Lohn<\/strong>
      \nIreland\u2019s Michelle Smith\u2014a four-time Olympic medalist in 1996 who received a four-year ban from the sport in 1998 for tampering with a doping sample\u2014has been defined as being a poster girl for cheating, and by her willingness to cut corners and take advantage of performance-enhancing drug use to make the leap from an athlete of very-good skill to one of elite status.<\/p>\n

      029<\/span> 50 SWIMMERS, 6 MEDALS<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Dan D\u2019Addona<\/strong>
      \nThe Tokyo Olympics will mark the fourth occasion that open water swimming will be contested on the Olympic level, and even a 10-kilometer marathon race can bring exciting moments and dramatic finishes.<\/p>\n

      030<\/span> JOSH MATHENY: RISING STAR<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Matthew De George<\/strong>
      \nFrom a middle-schooler newly committed to swimming full-time in 2016, the future looks encouraging for 18-year-old Josh Matheny, who approaches the U.S. Olympic Trials for Tokyo in June as a dark horse to make the team in men\u2019s breaststroke.<\/p>\n

      032<\/span> ISHOF: THE ART OF SWIMMING<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Bruce Wigo<\/strong>
      \nThis is the story of Hero and Leander, Lord Byron and the birth of open water swimming.<\/p>\n

      035<\/span> NUTRITION: HYDRATION\u2014BEYOND THIRST!<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Dawn Weatherwax<\/strong>
      \nHydration truly has a daily importance for all kinds of swimmers from age groupers to Olympians to Masters swimmers, but it tends to get more notoriety when the weather gets warmer.<\/p>\n

      COACHING<\/p>\n

      012<\/span> THE POWER OF POSITIVE COACHING<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Michael J. Stott<\/strong>
      \nRelationships built upon honesty, trust and communication go a long way toward cementing a bond between coach and athlete. Coupling that with knowledge of the individual first and athlete second produces a positive working relationship that can last for a lifetime.<\/p>\n

      038<\/span> SWIMMING TECHNIQUE CONCEPTS: MAXIMIZING SWIMMING VELOCITY (Part 1)\u2014STROKE RATE vs. STROKE LENGTH<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Rod Havriluk<\/strong>
      \nSwimming velocity is the criterion measure for swimming performance and is the product of stroke length and stroke rate. This article explains how stroke length and stroke rate vary and how stroke time provides insight into maximizing swimming velocity.<\/p>\n

      042<\/span> Q&A WITH COACH STEVE HAUFLER<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Michael J. Stott<\/strong><\/p>\n

      044<\/span> HOW THEY TRAIN CHARLOTTE SHAMIA<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Michael J. Stott<\/strong><\/p>\n

      TRAINING<\/p>\n

      037<\/span> DRYSIDE TRAINING: THE IM DRYLAND CIRCUIT<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby J.R. Rosania<\/strong><\/p>\n

      JUNIOR SWIMMER<\/p>\n

      047<\/span> UP & COMERS: TEAGAN O\u2019DELL<\/strong><\/span>
      \nby Shoshanna Rutemiller<\/strong><\/p>\n

      COLUMNS<\/p>\n

      008<\/span> A VOICE FOR THE SPORT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

      011<\/span> DID YOU KNOW: ABOUT THE MOREHOUSE TIGER SHARKS?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

      046<\/span> THE OFFICIAL WORD<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

      048<\/span> GUTTERTALK<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n