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Newcomer Hunter Armstrong Looking to Drum Up Medals in Tokyo<\/strong><\/p>\n

The decision for Hunter Armstrong<\/strong> wasn\u2019t easy. He loved both activities, though in different ways. He was good at both, but in order to be great at either, he\u2019d have to commit. The days of doing both had long-since passed, at least at the level to which he aspired.<\/p>\n

No, Armstrong isn\u2019t talking about what has become his swimming origin story, when the backstroker\/sprint freestyler from Dover, Ohio, had to choose between football and swimming in the summer of 2018, finally devoting himself to the sport that will take him to the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n

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Hunter Armstrong; Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

Instead, Armstrong was faced with a similar decision three summers earlier. Since sixth grade, he\u2019d played in the concert band at Dover, a town of 13,000 people in Eastern Ohio with a football stadium that seats 5,000. But upon entering high school, sticking with marching band in the percussion section wasn\u2019t something that could coexist with being a linebacker and wide receiver on the gridiron. Armstrong has long had a flair for performance \u2013 see his card trick to unveil the captains at U.S. Olympic Team camp in Hawaii<\/a> \u2013 so he thought long and hard about what to give up.<\/p>\n

And swimming then? While others who finished behind him at last month\u2019s U.S. Olympic Trials were pounding out yards and setting age-group records, Armstrong was a part-timer, gets his fix of sports in other ways.<\/p>\n

With that unique journey, you won\u2019t offend Armstrong by asking if his spot representing the United States in the men\u2019s 100 backstroke feels a tad unlikely. He freely admits to that and all that followed his sensational Trials performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been crazy,\u201d Armstrong said by phone last week from the U.S. training camp. \u201cI haven\u2019t really gotten to see my family or anyone from town, but my phone has been blowing up. It\u2019s crazy. Luckily it\u2019s a pretty good distraction being down here in Hawaii. I\u2019m just training and hanging out with teammates, so I\u2019m not thinking about how much I miss home. It\u2019s all crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal for Armstrong entering Trials was a top-six finish to put him on the national team for the next year. It wasn\u2019t until he trounced his personal-best with a 54.46, then a 53.69 back-to-back at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis on May 15 that an Olympic berth seemed plausible.<\/p>\n

Though he still deemed a trip to Tokyo as \u201cpossible, but unlikely,\u201d his parents had to be the one to break the good news to him that it might be more than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since TYR Pro (in May), my parents have been saying, \u2018this is a potential. You have a shot,\u2019\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t want to believe that I had a shot because then I would be disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armstrong swam well enough at Trials to leave no doubt. He set best times every time out, from 53.28 in prelims to 52.67 in semifinals to 52.48 in finals. At every stage, as swimmers with bigger pedigrees faded, only he and Ryan Murphy were left to punch tickets to Tokyo<\/a>, in an event that the U.S. hasn\u2019t failed to win gold in since 1992.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how a part-time swimmer in 2018, someone who never won a state championship in high school (he finished runnerup twice to Florida standout Adam Chaney<\/strong>), who finished 13th at March\u2019s NCAA Championships in the 100 back (his highest finish, to go with 21st in the 50 free), who started at West Virginia before transferring to Ohio State<\/a>, ends up representing the deepest swimming program in the world at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

At a certain level, the former Crimson Tornados linebacker understands that. Even when he compliments himself, it comes with a little jab, saying that his increased comfort in the long-course pool is because he, \u201clacks all the little details,\u201d the technical aspects like turns and breakouts that short-course rewards more. (The more compassionate assessment: His 6-foot-6 frame means he\u2019s able to transfer exquisite amounts of power in a technically clean stroke that outswims his peers).<\/p>\n

One thing he will take credit for is how hard he\u2019s worked in the weight room at Ohio State. He didn\u2019t hit his true growth spurt until the summer before his senior year of high school, and he didn\u2019t have a proper weight-training regimen until arriving in Columbus.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely crucial. I do not think I\u2019d be anywhere close to where I am now without our weight program,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 I\u2019ve gotten a lot stronger with just how much harder our swim workouts are, but that is basically a fraction of the improvement compared to what I\u2019ve accomplished in the weight room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with just the 100 back \u2013 and its place in the prelims of the medley relay \u2013 on his docket for Tokyo, Armstrong is sticking with freestyle-heavy training in Hawaii. (He finished 19th in the 100 free in Omaha.) He\u2019s in a training group with Bowe Becker<\/strong> and Caeleb<\/strong> Dressel<\/strong>, where he says coach Gregg Troy<\/strong> has to frequently remind the uber-competitive trio that there are no medals for the winner of warmups.<\/p>\n

It might, objectively speaking, be a surprise that he\u2019s going to Tokyo. But that doesn\u2019t matter when he gets in the pool there. He flourished in the crucible of Trials. He\u2019s an Olympian. It\u2019s hard to lessen the pressure that he already didn\u2019t feel, but with his objectives accomplished and then some, he\u2019s free to fly in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrials, I feel like that\u2019ll be the hardest meet I have to compete in,\u201d Hunter Armstrong said. \u201cIt helps not having many expectations. I feel like there\u2019s no pressure on me because no one expects me to do anything, but obviously I want to succeed, I want to represent the United States the best that I can. But I try to stay grounded in the fact that I\u2019ve already achieved so much more than I had anticipated, so anything from here on out is just the cherry on top.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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