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How a Year Away from Water Polo is Helping Maddie Musselman Build Toward Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maddie Musselman<\/strong> decided to play it cool and see how long it would take.<\/p>\n

For the 2022-23 academic year, while rehabbing a hip injury and resting physically and psychologically for the hectic final year\u2019s push to the Paris Olympics, Musselman is taking time to focus on her other career. She\u2019d relocate from sunny California, where she\u2019d been a college star at UCLA, to Philadelphia, to attend a selective pre-physician assistant program at Temple University.<\/p>\n

When it came time for the obligatory meet and greets with her small cohort of students, Musselman wasn\u2019t going to blare the trumpet about her gold-plated extracurricular activity. Instead, so far from the mecca of water polo, she wanted to see just how long her \u201cjust another student\u201d aura might last.<\/p>\n

The answer was, well, about as long as it took to get through introductions, when one of her peers recognized the name, did a little Googling and got to break the news to the room that a two-time Olympic gold medalist and the MVP of the Tokyo Olympic Games was in their midst.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t embarrassed, but I was like, how did you, on the first day I showed up?,\u201d Musselman says with a laugh. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to say anything, I was going to try to be a student and not have the student-athlete label over my head, but he was just like, \u2018you\u2019re so awesome.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018thank you?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

However much notoriety usually comes with walking through the world as one of the top athletes in her sport, Philadelphia has granted Musselman even more anonymity. It\u2019s punctured from time to time \u2013 like when grabbing dinner on the Main Line and getting a text the next day from U.S. coach Adam Krikorian<\/strong>, that a starstruck Villanova water polo player had spotted her and sounded the alarm to her coach and up through the chain.<\/p>\n

It also provides a chance to prepare for the Paris Olympics without outwardly looking like it. As the Americans chase a fourth consecutive gold, one of the team\u2019s leaders has compartmentalized the two years leading up, with a year focused on her world outside of water polo to set up a year where she can give her maximum in the pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to have this mental break for myself, and to prepare myself for life after water polo and pull together my goals for whenever I\u2019m done playing,\u201d she said. \u201cThis year is kind of like that perfect opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing toward Paris<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s a term that Musselman drops often: A growth mindset. It applies to her studies, to the path of the national team, to the collision of those aspects of her aspirations. And it\u2019s important to know that growth for Musselman as a water polo player in 2023 can come while out of the water in 2022.<\/p>\n

Some of that is not by choice. Musselman spent six years at UCLA, around two Olympic redshirts, owing the COVID-19 postponement of the Tokyo Olympics. Her career accolades are historically voluminous: The all-time leading scorer in UCLA history with 251 goals, she was a four-time All-American. The 2022 MPSF Player of the Year was named a finalist for the 2022 Cutino Award<\/a> and for the 2022 Sullivan Award as America’s top amateur athlete<\/a><\/p>\n

Internationally, she\u2019s been with the U.S. since her senior year of high school. The U.S. has won all four World Championships, dating to 2015, that she\u2019s been part of. She led the way at the latest last summer, scoring 20 goals, second-most in the tournament, including five in a 9-7 win over Hungary in the final<\/a>, to earn tournament All-Star recognition. She was named the 2021 Swimming World<\/em> Water Polo Player of the Year<\/a>. .<\/p>\n

All that took a physical toll finally paid by hip surgery in July upon her return from Budapest. It would keep her out of the water through mid-November, time she\u2019d already planned to fill academically. In the spring, she was awarded one of 24 Pac-12 post-graduate scholarships<\/a> to attend the Temple program, a Pre-Health Post Baccalaureate Program to prepare<\/a> her to work in the medical field.<\/p>\n

Rehab has expanded her physical horizons. She\u2019s still limited to drill work in the water and lap swimming for fitness, not the most engaging activities for her. She\u2019s dabbled in new types of exercises \u2013 fitness classes, yoga, boxing and Pilates \u2013 that wouldn\u2019t have been in her repertoire to get her competitive fix.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust kind of fun, everyday activities that I know I can take advantage of now that will keep me in shape and that are kind of fun and different to excite me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to stay motivated when you\u2019re not surrounded by teammates, in my opinion. Swimming on your own is really hard. Lifting by yourself is really hard. But joining some of these classes, I feel like I\u2019m surrounded by people that are working hard and to compete with, whether they know that or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s still connected to teammates, for instance tuning in as a young squad went to the FINA World League Super Final this fall. She was back in California around the Thanksgiving holiday, and she\u2019ll join the team in January for a training trip to Australia. But until the senor group reconvenes next summer, she\u2019s free to do her own thing. That\u2019s the dynamic under Krikorian, with so many veterans with ample interests outside of the sport who know their responsibilities to the team and when to flip the switch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we come back, it\u2019s going to be all water polo, every single day, day in and day out,\u201d Musselman said. \u201cAnd the best way to prepare myself for that is what I\u2019m doing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Philadelphia story<\/h4>\n

When she\u2019s not in the classroom, Musselman has indulged in all of Philadelphia\u2019s offerings. Sports have played a big role.<\/p>\n

For her Californian upbringing, the Musselman family is no stranger to the East Coast. Dad Jeff Musselman<\/strong> is from the Philadelphia suburbs in Doylestown; he played baseball at Harvard, then in the big leagues with the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets<\/a>. Mom Karen played soccer at Rutgers.<\/p>\n

Maddie Musselman was thus a de facto Philadelphia sports fan, and she\u2019s relished an unusually prosperous autumn of Philadelphia sports. That includes trips down Broad Street to watch the Phillies surprising run to a National League pennant and to see the NFL-best Eagles play. She also adventured to New York for the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all part of the adventure of being far from home for the first time, a distance that really wasn\u2019t possible given how geographically condensed the elite water polo world of California is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s obviously some nerves that come with moving, especially to a place where there\u2019s not much water polo \u2013 I can\u2019t just show up to a pool deck and there\u2019s a water polo goal and there\u2019s a team playing,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in California, you can kind of go anywhere and experience that. But I think that\u2019s what\u2019s unique and special about moving to a new area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musselman\u2019s work in the classroom is in service of a laser-like goal on Paris. (On the possibility of the Los Angeles Games in 2028, Musselman demurred: \u201cL.A. is too far out to think about,\u201d she said. \u201c\u2026 It\u2019s on the horizon. It\u2019s somewhere. It\u2019s not a yes or a no.\u201d) The more she accomplishes now, the less she\u2019ll have hanging over her head in 2023 when it\u2019s all water polo all the time.<\/p>\n

In that way, working toward her post-water polo goals is the same as working in the pool. And if along the way she can help influence a few new fans, that\u2019s a bonus, too.<\/p>\n

So far, she\u2019s making headway, one classmate at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people have no idea what water polo is when I explain it,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then some people are like, \u2018oh my gosh I\u2019ve heard of that.\u2019 Sharing the world of water polo with some new people is also kind of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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