{"id":496502,"date":"2022-09-20T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=496502"},"modified":"2022-09-20T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:46:40","slug":"special-sets-revisiting-the-spectacular-days-of-age-group-legend-chas-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/special-sets-revisiting-the-spectacular-days-of-age-group-legend-chas-morton\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Sets: Revisiting the Spectacular Days of Age-Group Legend Chas Morton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Special Sets: Revisiting the Spectacular Days of Age-Group Legend Chas Morton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time is an evil mistress, especially when related to advancing maturity and\/or milliseconds in a competitive endeavor. Consider this: Of today\u2019s 186 individual national age group records, only seven are older than the 1983 11-12 long course 100 fly standard (58.74) set by <strong>Chas Morton<\/strong>. Never heard of him? Maybe you\u2019ve heard of the others &#8211; Olympians all: <strong>Sippy Woodhead<\/strong>, <strong>Mary T. Meagher<\/strong>, <strong>Jesse<\/strong> <strong>Vassallo<\/strong> and <strong>Bobby Hackett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t feel sorry for Morton, a prodigy at Nashville Aquatic Club, three-time USA Swimming National Team member and a team captain at Stanford. He is now a successful attorney in Franklin, Tenn., living not far from where he rewrote virtually all the NAG records for which he was eligible. While <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Andrew<\/strong> and <strong>Thomas Heilman<\/strong> are more recent age-group phenoms, Morton was literally in a class by himself in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Did Morton benefit from excellent coaching? Absolutely. It was a time when Australian legend <strong>Don Talbot<\/strong> was on site coaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tracy-caulkins-the-40th-anniversary-of-a-record-lost-in-a-career-of-gains-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tracy<\/strong> <strong>Caulkins<\/strong><\/a>, the world\u2019s best female swimmer. From 1980-83, Morton trained with <strong>Joe Goeken<\/strong>, followed by future University of Texas assistant <strong>Kris Kubik<\/strong>, then by <strong>John Morse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While Morton aspired to be like Caulkins, he was surrounded by training partners who set NAG records and who frequented the top 16 age group lists. In the 10-and-under group, <strong>Christy Campbell<\/strong> was a standout in the SCY and LC 100 fly. <strong>Hollie Morgan<\/strong> held short and long course standards in the 50 and 100 back. <strong>Kim Gilbert<\/strong> was an NAG record holder in the 11-12 LC 100 breast and finished first in the top 16 rankings (breast and IM) five times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very competitive group,\u201d Morton muses.<\/p>\n<p>Morton began his assault on NAG records as a 10-and-under in 1982 when he set all of the SCY records except the 50 breast. \u201cMostly, I remember how motivated, competitive, smart, goal-oriented and coachable he was,\u201d says Goeken. \u201cAs a young coach, it was quite an experience to work with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was Kubik who oversaw Morton\u2019s development during the 1983-84 short course season when he rewrote all the 11-12 records. By the end of the long course season, he also held NAG marks in the 50 back, 50-100 fly, 200 IM and was a member of the NAG record-setting 200 free relay and the first-place 200 medley relay quartets.<\/p>\n<p>Two factors called a halt to Morton\u2019s age group dominance. One was shoulder surgery following the 1984 long course season. The second was the cessation of his physical maturation. \u201cAt my tallest, I was 5-9 when my hair stood on end,\u201d he says. Yet at the end of the 1986 long course season, Morton held 30 SCY and LC NAG records\u2014more than any other swimmer. In the 10-and-under age group, he had 10 SCY and one LC marks. In 11-12, he possessed 10\/4. In 13-14, 2\/3. And in the 15-16 category, he was still producing top 16 fly and IM times, three in the top five, plus one other top 16.<\/p>\n<p>A flash in the pan? Not really. His aquatic adventure continued through the 1988 Olympic Trials before he became a two-time CSCAA All-American (plus eight honorable-mention honors) and won three Pac-10 IM titles for Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ishof.org\/honoree\/honoree-skip-kenney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Skip Kenney<\/strong><\/a> at Stanford.<\/p>\n<h3>Morton in Training<\/h3>\n<p>Goeken was NAC\u2019s head age group coach when he first saw Morton at age 9. \u201cWe had a set of 20 x 100 on 1:30. He just got in and swam. Back then, his best time was a 1:08. On that set, he just got faster and down to a 1:02 or 1:03. He wasn\u2019t the prettiest swimmer\u2014he had long arms and was short, but he was very competitive with a phenomenal kick. If he\u2019d been swimming today, he\u2019d have been the best underwater kicker ever. When he was 11-12, he broke a minute kicking fly with a board,\u201d says Goeken.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, Morton\u2019s swim sets have been lost to time. Goeken\u2019s records disappeared during his many moves. \u201cWhen I was swimming, I kept a log book diligently, but didn\u2019t save them,\u201d says Morton. \u201cWhat I generally remember was aerobic base training. I don\u2019t recall doing a lot of sprint and race-pace work, but I\u2019m sure we did some. The prevalent thinking back then was long-term rather than short-term development, so my early success was a bit in spite of the training we did. Yardage was in the 5,000 range each day. We may have hit six or more on some days,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only set I can recall was a broken mile\u201411 x 150. I think they were on 1:45, and Coach wanted me to hold under 1:30. I was slugging along at 1:31, 1:32 for the first few, and Kris had one of the cute senior girls come stand behind the blocks. I held 1:28s after that and wound up under 16:30, which is what we wanted to do that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe was in touch with the coach at San Jose Aquatics. I remember seeing sets and times that <strong>Luis Nicolao<\/strong> and <strong>Mark Taliaferro<\/strong> were doing, and then our group would see if we could do them, too. I don\u2019t recall the sets or how we stacked up, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goeken\u2019s recollection is \u201cwe used to do a lot of quality\u2014a lot of volume. Our junior kids did a number of fast 100s on 2:00\u2014IMs, test sets. We\u2019d go 10 x 100 IM\u2014I was so into it&#8230;I spent all my time putting practice records up on a board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter holding all the 10-and-under NAG records except the 50 breast in his first meet as an 11-year-old, Chas set the 11-12 national record in the 200 IM. The old mark was 2:04; he went 2:02 and ended up getting to 1:56. He also swam a 500 free in 4:49 when he was 11,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKris had him as a 12-year-old when he went the 1:56 and :51 in the 100 fly. Chas held every 11-12 record at one time and made junior nationals after just turning 12. Around the same time, I recall him pushing a 100 IM and going under the national record. As a 13-year-old, he went 3:57 in the 400 IM and 1:52 in the 200 IM. Kris said that year he\u2019d have won the Tennessee high school championship in that event as a seventh grader.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Real Deal<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cChas was a phenomenon in the South,\u201d continues Goeken. \u201cHe was gifted, an early maturer, but he had that combination of talent, smarts, desire, and he was unbelievably competitive. He was also one of the most coachable kids I ever had\u2014a little cocky because of his confidence, but he listened to everything you said. If you asked him to work on something, he just did it. He would set a goal in his mind, and his body would take over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis first best stroke was fly, then back and free. His breast wasn\u2019t good, but he ended up swimming it at meets. In practice when given a choice stroke, he chose breast and soon thereafter set an NAG record in the 200 IM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Olympic glory may have eluded Morton, his legacy lives. A legend in his day, 39 years later he remains an age-group superstar with an unmatched portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael J. Stott is an ASCA Level 5 coach, golf and swimming writer. His critically acclaimed coming-of-age golf novel, \u201cToo Much Loft,\u201d was published in June 2021, and is available from store.Bookbaby.com, Amazon, B&amp;N and book distributors worldwide.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Sets: Revisiting the Spectacular Days of Age-Group Legend Chas Morton Time is an evil mistress, especially when related to advancing maturity and\/or milliseconds in a competitive endeavor. 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