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Steady Diet of Racing at Florida Putting Joshua Liendo in Position for 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

The messaging from Swimming Canada through 2020 and into 2021 highlighted a dearth of racing, even by COVID-19 pandemic standards. One of the last major nations to hold its trials for the Tokyo Olympics and one of the most heavily impacted by pandemic restrictions, the program persevered at the Summer Games despite being short on competitions in the lead-up.<\/p>\n

Those conditions factored into the decision by Joshua Liendo,<\/strong> who identifies first and foremost as a racer, to head south for college swimming at the University of Florida. He\u2019s thrilled by how his first year in Florida has worked out.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Liendo; Photo Courtesy: Scott Grant\/Swimming Canada<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m getting world-class racing down here, regularly, which is great,\u201d Liendo said by phone last week as he preps for NCAA Championships. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s just going to be that much better because by the time I get to Worlds, it\u2019s going to be that I\u2019ve been doing it so much and so often that it\u2019s only going to make me better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liendo has flourished in Florida, accelerating a trajectory well underway before he left Canada. At the SEC Championships, he won the 100 butterfly<\/a> in 44.11 seconds. He was second to Tennessee\u2019s Jordan Crooks<\/strong> in both the 50 freestyle (Liendo went 18.39) and the 100 (41.24). All three are NCAA A cuts.<\/p>\n

Liendo split 18.20 off the end of the Gators\u2019 silver-winning 200 medley relay and 18.02 as the Gators won gold in the 200 free relay. He helped Florida win the 400 medley relay, swimming fly, in an SEC record and was part of the runner-up 400 free relay. The Gators have a chance to topple NCAA records in both the 200 free relay (they were .11 off the 2009 standard of Auburn) and the 400 medley relay<\/a> (.26 away from Texas\u2019s 2017 mark).<\/p>\n

He\u2019s being driven forward by friend and foe alike. He and Crooks tangled in each individual event in SECs in College Station, Texas. The competition seems to have brought out the best in both, and the Caymanian is a likely rival on the international stage for years to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cRacing him, I\u2019ve learned a lot, and then there\u2019s that competitive aspect about it where every race is close,\u201d Liendo said. \u201cI\u2019m always on my toes, and Jordan is a great guy. He\u2019s really humble, he\u2019s a nice dude and a talented athlete, and it\u2019s always a pleasure to race against him. I\u2019d race against him all the time if I could, because I feel like I get better from racing him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fun in the Florida Sun<\/h4>\n

The team atmosphere in Gainesville about speaks for itself. He\u2019s surrounded by outstanding sprinters \u2013 Florida went second, fourth, seventh and eighth in the 100 free at SECs, for instance. He shares a team with Olympians Alberto Mestre<\/strong> and Alfonso Mestre,<\/strong> not to mention Gator Swim Club\u2019s rolodex of post-grad standouts. A group that counts Anthony Nesty<\/strong> as the head coach and Katie Ledecky<\/strong> as a graduate assistant has no shortage of motivation and knowhow on deck.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a large group of guys that can all go fast at any given time and at practices,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s always someone to push me in practice, which I find really good. The group dynamic, we always have fun in practice, it\u2019s a really good time to be with them in practice and obviously at meets. I\u2019m having a lot of fun and I\u2019m enjoying it a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

College life is an adjustment, but Liendo has managed fairly well. At 20, he\u2019s on the older side for a freshman, but he\u2019s grateful for the help he\u2019s gotten from Florida in his transition.<\/p>\n

A thornier change is to short-course yards, even if the results don\u2019t necessarily prove it. It\u2019s a different discipline from the short-course meters he trained at the High Performance Centre in Ontario. The vagaries are pronounced for a sprinter, with execution of turns and starts so precise and the margins vanishingly small.<\/p>\n

Liendo credits Crooks with being better in those areas than he is, which is one dimension in which he\u2019s using the Tennessee sophomore as a measuring stick.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely a big adjustment,\u201d Liendo said. \u201cEven at SECs, I\u2019m still missing my turns, stuff like that. It\u2019s almost a different sport, the way you have to think about it \u2013 very detail-oriented, not as much swimming even, lot of underwaters and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking (Way) Ahead<\/h4>\n

The Gators have had a stranglehold on the SEC, winning 11 straight men\u2019s titles<\/a>. But their sights are set higher this year, to be players on the national scene.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been trending in that direction under Nesty, and attracting talent like Liendo is a big reason why<\/a>. Florida hasn\u2019t won an NCAA title on the men\u2019s side since 1984. Its last top-two finish was in 1985. The Gators were third each of the last two seasons and five times in the last decade. But they\u2019ve dropped as low as eighth (in 2012) and were fifth in 2018, the last time the meet was held at the University of Minnesota, this year\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

This year seems more open. With the emergence of Arizona State, the duopoly of California and Texas, which have claimed sole possession of the top two spots each year since 2014, seems in jeopardy. It could create an opening for Florida to do something special<\/a>, and the Gators know it.<\/p>\n

As contenders in all five relays and depth that should pack A finals across the board, hope is palpable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started talking about it at SECs,\u201d Liendo said. \u201cWe\u2019re close to these records already, so with the team that we have and as well as we\u2019ve done, the whole group has improved and they\u2019ve gotten a lot better, even when you look at them from last year. We were talking about NCAAs and seeing what it takes to be at the top and who we have to beat and the things we have to do in order to win. That\u2019s where our head is at right now, and we\u2019re in a good spot right now to do something special at NCAAs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liendo seems to be in an interesting spot in the quadrennial Olympic cycle, shortened to a three-year wait after Tokyo\u2019s postponement. Liendo is a figurehead for the Canadian men\u2019s program, with Olympic experience and international pedigree that he\u2019s only burnished since Tokyo. He gleaned bronze medals in the 50 free and 100 free at the World Short-Course Championships in 2021. He added bronze in the 100 free and 100 fly at Worlds in Budapest, then capped a busy summer of making up for lost racing time with gold in the 100 fly and bronze in the 50 free at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n

The pressure of a looming Olympics is always there, Liendo said, if less prevalent before the countdown clock ticks under 12 months to Opening Ceremonies. But Liendo would be lying if he said that one eye isn\u2019t always on Paris.<\/p>\n

Luckily, his short-term aspirations in Gainesville and his long-term international hopes are aligned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of know the next steps I need to take to continue getting better, so I feel like this year, with the World Championships and coming down here and getting a lot of racing in NCAAs, I\u2019m using it as a prep for this Olympic year,\u201d he said. \u201cI try to always be good in all the races I do and to keep improving, so I\u2019m looking at this year to learn from it and I\u2019m going to take what I learned from this year to take into the Olympic year next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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