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\nSpecials Sets: The Development of Paige Madden<\/span><\/h1>\n

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

The University of Virginia\u2019s Paige Madden played an important role in the Cavaliers\u2019 first-ever women\u2019s NCAA swimming and diving team championship in March, winning four events. Greg Davis, her club coach, remembers when she was also a successful age grouper, and shares some of her City of Mobile sets when she was 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When talent and work ethic convene, the sky is often the limit. So it wouldn\u2019t surprise Greg Davis, Paige Madden\u2019s City of Mobile age group coach, if June\u2019s Olympic Trials doesn\u2019t once again find the University of Virginia senior\u2014and this year\u2019s four-time NCAA national champion (200-500-1650 free, 800 free relay)\u2014representing the United States in another international competition. Consider her background:
\n\u2022 14x NCAA All-American
\n\u2022 13x ACC champion
\n\u2022 2x ACC Swimmer of the Meet
\n\u2022 2x medalist at the 2019 World University Games (gold 4 x 200 free relay, silver 200 free)
\n\u2022 2x USA Swimming national junior team member
\n\u2022 2x NCSA champion in 400 meter freestyle
\n\u2022 7x NISCA All-American
\n\u2022 11x Alabama high school state champion
\n\u2022 Top three all time at University of Virginia (200-500-1000-1650 free, 200 back)<\/p>\n

IN THE BEGINNING<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u201cI saw incredible talent and potential in Paige from the very first day,\u201d Davis says of his then seventh-grader. I had seen her develop through our age group program, was excited to work with her, and I felt she wasn\u2019t even close to reaching her full potential once graduating high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Davis found was an extremely coachable student of the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer work ethic and leg drive were incredible. Her kick is phenomenal and has always been one of her biggest assets. No matter the practice, test sets or meets, Paige loved to race. Her mental focus and intensity were superb,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

With a training focus of long-term development, IM\/technique, heavy kick and quality over quantity, Madden swam part of every workout at race pace. \u201cShe trained hard and fast every day, averaging nine workouts a week (5,000-6,000 yards per afternoon practice) through her high school years,\u201d says Davis.<\/p>\n

\u201cMorning workouts averaged 2,000-3,500 with heavy emphasis on speed and power development\u2014i.e., power racks, parachutes, fins\/paddles, stretch cords (resistant and speed-assisted). Paige\u2019s dryland training included core strength work, weights (Olympic lifts, power circuit, etc.) and yoga. During holidays, we increased the yardage and number of sessions,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Paige was one of, if not the most, intrinsically driven athletes, both in training and in the classroom, that I\u2019ve worked with,\u201d he says. \u201cWhether it was the weight room or pool, she was always on a \u2018mission\u2019 and had no other goal except to make herself better each and every day. I very rarely, if ever, had to get on her about intensity. In six years of coaching Paige, I never witnessed her going easy, slow or bagging sets. She was a machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer focus was always on making herself better. No matter how much it hurt or how hard she had to work, she left it all in the pool, every day. She always wanted to take care of business and get herself to the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcademically, it was no different. Every travel trip, whether it be a plane, bus or van, Paige was studying\u2014books out and always working on her academics. She is the true epitome of a student-athlete.\u201d (The ACC thought so, too, selecting her as its 2020 Co-ACC Scholar Athlete)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

CITY OF MOBILE SETS<\/span><\/strong>
\nFollowing are two sets that Madden did at age 15 as a run-up to the NCSA meet in spring 2014, when she finished fifth in the 200 yard free (1:46.08), third in the 500 (4:43.26) and eighth in the 1000 (9:52.28). At 16, one year later, Madden qualified first in the 500 (4:45.29), won the final\u2014which was swum as a 400-meter race (4:14.56)\u2014and collected a third in the 500 and eighth in the 1000.<\/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