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But for many USA Swimming members, competing in Olympic Trials is a pinnacle of a career, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wave-i-olympic-trials-regardless-of-situation-still-an-experience-of-a-lifetime\/\">a defining line-item on a swimming CV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership team at USA Swimming sought to balance those objectives in the face of COVID-19-related challenges that limited the number of swimmers that could be at Omaha at one time for Trials. And the bifurcation of the meet into last week\u2019s Wave I and the Wave II meet for Olympic selection starting Sunday provides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2021-us-olympic-trials-notes-should-wave-i-stay-how-many-first-time-olympians-will-be-named\/\">a new way of looking at Trials in non-pandemic times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s important at USA Swimming is every kid gets a chance and has the opportunity to make Olympic Trials when they\u2019re that fast,\u201d Hinchey said a press conference in Omaha Friday. \u201cSo to keep that promise was really a key objective for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hinchey, who became USA Swimming\u2019s President and CEO in July 2017, is in the midst of his first Olympic cycle at the helm. It\u2019s the most unique one in more than a generation, given the postponement from 2020 and the attendant challenges of restarting sports after months of shutdowns. That has had ramifications not just for elite swimmers but for clubs, schools and colleges across the countries, issues that are both logistical and financial.<\/p>\n<p>For the U.S. Team Trials, it was unclear into the spring if they could happen in any format. Only after the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-olympic-swimming-trials-to-be-split-into-two-waves-for-better-social-distancing\/\">decided to split it into Wave I and Wave II<\/a> did conditions nationally, with a rapid rollout of vaccines, improve so that arenas at sporting events are increasingly full and sports is back closer to normal. Hinchey said Friday that his worst nightmare for Trials in the COVID-19 era is for swimmers with a chance to get to the Olympics to be denied a chance to compete to get there. Writ large, that was the central conundrum of Trials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> was one of those initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/analyzing-the-pros-cons-of-a-two-wave-olympic-swimming-trials\/\">hesitant about the plan<\/a>. Like many swimmers, he draws on inspiration as a teenager just happy to be in Omaha \u2013 in his case, in 2012 \u2013 with no realistic shot of qualifying for the Olympics. But that experience, of swimming in a lane next to star or competing against a college veteran, is fuel for the fire four years down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Dressel was concerned that young swimmers would miss out on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/event\/2021\/06\/04\/default-calendar\/u.s.-olympic-team-trials-wave-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during Wave I<\/a>. But after he and <strong>Ryan Lochte<\/strong> arrived in Omaha and saw the enthusiasm from <strong>Brendan Hansen,<\/strong> USA Swimming\u2019s Director of Team Services and a veteran of four Olympic Trials in the pool, Dressel reconsidered that stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a problem with the whole wave situation because I related to being that young kid in 2012 where I got to swim in the same pool as Ryan, I got to swim in the same warmup lane as <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> and felt like that was taken away from Wave I,\u201d Dressel said. \u201cOr so I thought, until talking to Brendan and seeing the photos of the kids having their moment in the same pool at the same time but instead of saying my stupid name on the scoreboard, they got to see their name up there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it completely flipped on me of a worry that I thought was something that was being taken away from them was actually given to them where it wasn\u2019t overshadowed by the big names here at Wave II. So I was really happy for the kids where you could see the genuine excitement where it looked the same emotion that some of the big names in Wave II that you\u2019re going to see. So nothing was taken away from them, I\u2019m really glad it worked out like that and it was genuine excitement where they were in the same pool, they were at the same venue, while we might not have been there at the same time, to them it was real and it makes me really happy to see that. And they can take the moving forward to four years from now where there will be someone from Wave I who will be on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hinchey related a similar story, arriving on night one of Wave I and seeing <strong>Camille Spink<\/strong> of Nation\u2019s Capital Aquatic Club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-trials-wave-i-day-one-prelims-haebig-swims-101-5-100-back-spink-massey-take-top-seeds\/\">win the women\u2019s 100 freestyle<\/a>. In the old format, Spink would\u2019ve left Omaha having improved her time, a significant but ultimately private triumph. Instead, she got an evening swim with the finals treatment on TV and in the arena.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s something that Hinchey said resonated deeply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing that emotion in the 100 free was tremendous,\u201d Hinchey said of Spink. \u201cAnd knowing that if she had just come to traditional trials, it would\u2019ve been great and she would\u2019ve raced and had a great time. But the chance for her to come back and get a second swim, go under the lights and then get faster again, that\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I think the small talk in the back room is like, maybe we keep this going, maybe there\u2019s a way to do this successfully for everybody because again, watching these kids enjoy this spotlight that they earned is tremendous and very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a year, Tim Hinchey and his leadership team at USA Swimming knew their plan for Olympic Trials would require two aims. 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