{"id":478822,"date":"2021-06-20T03:49:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T10:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=478822"},"modified":"2021-06-20T03:49:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T10:49:55","slug":"tom-shields-builds-from-suicide-attempt-to-heroic-advocacy-and-another-olympic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tom-shields-builds-from-suicide-attempt-to-heroic-advocacy-and-another-olympic-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Shields Builds From Suicide Attempt to Heroic Advocacy and Another Olympic Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tom Shields Builds From Suicide Attempt to Heroic Advocacy and Another Olympic Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, <strong>Tom Shields<\/strong> qualified for his first Olympic team, finishing second behind <strong>Michael<\/strong> <strong>Phelps<\/strong> in both the 100 and 200 fly at Olympic Trials. He went on to earn a gold medal as a prelims relay at the Rio Games. The years following that career accomplishment were among the most difficult of his life as Shields struggled with depression and insomnia from putting too much pressure on himself and his swimming. He assumed he needed to be successful in swimming to support himself and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2018, Shields bottomed out. He stayed awake for three days. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tom-shields-opens-up-about-what-led-him-to-near-suicide-experience-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He attempted suicide<\/a>. He only survived thanks to his wife, Gianna.<\/p>\n<p>Shields only told the world about his struggles with depression in late 2019, with hopes of relieving the stigma of mental health, so that people who were struggling might be more willing to come forward and ask for help.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, Shields was a hero. If his willingness to be vulnerable helped even one person, it was obviously worth it. But at the same time, he was still swimming, flying under the radar somewhat. But in Omaha, Shields would earn his way back to the highest level of the sport\u2014with a completely different perspective than when he qualified in a more expected result in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night, as <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> took a run at his own world record in the men\u2019s 100 butterfly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-xxxxxxx100butterflyxxxxxxxxxxxxu-s-olympic-trials-caeleb-dressel-pops-another-sub-50-100-butterfly-tom-shields-returning-to-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shields took second<\/a>, more than four tenths ahead of third-place finisher <strong>Luca<\/strong> <strong>Urlando<\/strong>. Conversations about the second spot in the 100 fly prior to the meet had been on <strong>Michael<\/strong> <strong>Andrew<\/strong> and <strong>Maxime<\/strong> <strong>Rooney<\/strong>, swimmers with 50-second swims to their credit in the relatively recent past. Not Shields.<\/p>\n<p>But for the second time, Shields successfully navigated the crusher that is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2021\/us-olympic-team-trials-wave-ii-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Omaha meet<\/a>. It\u2019s not easy to come into a meet knowing that much of your swimming legacy depends on the results from one race. Miss out, and that can be devastating for the swimmers, as we\u2019ve seen on so many occasions this week in Omaha. Get the job done, and there\u2019s elation and the highest of highs, but Shields knows better than anyone that the resulting post-Olympics downer can be just as tough to pull out of. As he pointed out, at Trials, opportunities can be won or lost and every action can have massive implications in a swimmer\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrials is hard, man. We train so much for mind, not result. But it\u2019s really hard here. It\u2019s not like Pac-12s or NCAAs. Trials meets are very traumatizing. And people talk about the mental health side of this, and I\u2019ve started to talk about it a little more, and going through this last Trials, it\u2019s like man, maybe it\u2019s the Games experience, because there\u2019s that Olympic hangover, people fall on hard times. I know I did myself,\u201d Shields said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t think it\u2019s exclusive to the people that make the team. It\u2019s the Trials experience and this whole value system. It\u2019s hard to manage. I was thinking about that a lot this week. I tried my hardest today, just go have my swim, focus on what I need to focus on, but it\u2019s really hard. And this is my fourth time doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comparing this meet to his 2016 Trials experience, Shields recalled entering the 100 fly being freaked out about having already qualified for the 200 fly in Rio and having to swim that event at the Games. But this time, he knows who he is at a swimmer, and he\u2019s comfortable as that swimmer. If he never becomes an all-time great swimmer, that\u2019s OK. He\u2019s fully comfortable living in the moment and enjoying the experience he has earned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d love to think I could go really fast,\u201d Shields said. \u201cI still believe I can, but I\u2019m 29. If I were going to be a top, top end earner in the sport, I probably would be by now. So not much is going to change. So I\u2019m more settled in myself and I know what I want to do, and I want to put out good swims and just, 19 or 20 more 100s. I think I can go 50-point. I\u2019ve never done it. But that\u2019s what I\u2019m focused on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From his lowest point two and a half years ago until now, Shields has grown, and he has advocated for important discussions about mental health, discussions that transcend what he or any swimmer could ever accomplish in the pool. 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