{"id":525395,"date":"2023-03-22T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=525395"},"modified":"2023-03-22T05:08:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T12:08:01","slug":"an-a-student-of-the-sport-destin-lasco-leading-cal-in-pursuit-of-another-ncaa-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/an-a-student-of-the-sport-destin-lasco-leading-cal-in-pursuit-of-another-ncaa-title\/","title":{"rendered":"An A+ Student Of the Sport: Destin Lasco Leading Cal In Pursuit Of Another NCAA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An A+ Student Of the Sport: Destin Lasco Leading Cal In Pursuit Of Another NCAA Title<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The best swimmers recognize the value of process above simply results. For Cal\u2019s Destin Lasco, the combination of training plus other steps to ensure success in swimming and in life beyond the sport makes the experience\u2014not the times and the rewards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>******************************<\/p>\n<p>Consider the list of swimmers who have spearheaded a remarkable decade-and-a-half for California men\u2019s swimming since <strong>Dave<\/strong> <strong>Durden<\/strong> took over as head coach. In that span, which includes 12 consecutive top-two finishes at the NCAA Championships and five national titles, the likes of <strong>Nathan Adrian<\/strong>, <strong>Tom Shields<\/strong>, <strong>Damir Dugonjic<\/strong>, <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong>, <strong>Andrew Seliskar<\/strong> and <strong>Ryan Hoffer<\/strong> all have multiple individual wins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Destin Lasco<\/strong>, a junior from Linwood, N.J., will be favored to join that exclusive group in 2023. Two years ago, Lasco arrived at Cal as a highly-touted recruit and immediately became one of its most valuable performers. When he first arrived in Berkeley, many of the veterans swimming with the program were locked in on the delayed Tokyo Olympics, and Lasco got himself up to speed by observing the more accomplished men in the adjoining lanes, including multi-time Olympic champion Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that time, I was with Murph, Bryce (Mefford), Daniel (Carr), Andy Song, Zheng Quah\u2014all these guys that would throw down in practice,\u201d Lasco said. \u201cI would go underwater, under the lane line and watch them underwater and see how their strokes were different, see what Ryan was doing versus Daniel. That\u2019s how I basically catapulted my success because I was just learning so much from all of them. I wouldn\u2019t ask them too many questions, but I would just observe and see what they were doing and how they were taking care of their bodies after practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A BREAKOUT FRESHMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the end of that college season, the Cal freshman broke out at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-releases-official-mens-division-i-psych-sheet-cut-line-29-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA Championships<\/a> by capturing three individual top-three finishes and three top-two relays. Among Lasco\u2019s individual swims was a second-place effort in the 200 backstroke. He refused to back down before heavy favorite <strong>Shaine Casas<\/strong>, who already had two individual wins under his belt, and Lasco was rewarded with a second-place finish. He also became only the third man in history to break 1:36. Lasco ended up as the Golden Bears\u2019 top individual scorer on a team that finished only 27 points behind national-champion Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were down the last day, Dave in a meeting went down every single step of what we had to do to win the meet, and for me, it was to race Shaine Casas in the 200 back,\u201d Lasco said. \u201cI was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to go for it. I\u2019m going to give this guy a run for his money.\u2019 And we both popped 1:35s in the 200 back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A YEAR LATER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The approach was simple, and Lasco carried it into the national meet one year later in Atlanta, where the Bears wrested the title back from Texas with a 51-point win. Lasco set the tone on the first full day of competition as he knocked almost two seconds from his previous best time in the 200 IM on the way to a second-place finish, even making up ground on NCAA-record-breaker <strong>Leon Marchand<\/strong> on the final length. Lasco finished in 1:38.21, nearly breaking <strong>Caeleb Dressel\u2019s<\/strong> existing record of 1:38.13 in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of that meet, Lasco swam on four Cal relays, all of which finished fourth place or better, and he was entrusted with the anchor leg on all three freestyle relays, including the 200 free relay, a race he learned he would be participating in \u201clike 30 minutes before when Dave told me.\u201d He placed fourth in an extremely tight 100 back final before coming from behind to beat Carson Foster and earn an NCAA crown in the 200 back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018I do not want these kids to experience what (finishing) second place (as a team) is like at NCAAs.\u2019 That was my priority, to put in the work so we didn\u2019t have to experience that, and also to push them to score points and make the finals,\u201d Lasco said. \u201cComing out with the win (in the 200 back) and also having a really deep field in that race\u2014Bryce just came off getting fourth at the Olympics&#8230;Daniel Carr, Carson Foster&#8230;the list goes on\u2014to get my hand on the wall first, especially in a field like that, it was very fulfilling and full-circle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NATIONAL-TITLE HOPES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again in 2023, Cal will have national-title hopes, and Lasco will be at the center of those efforts as a favorite to repeat as national titlist in the 200 back\u2014with Murphy\u2019s American record of 1:35.73 very much in jeopardy\u2014and a contender for the top spot in the 100 back. He faces an uphill battle to get ahead of Marchand in the 200 IM, but he could join the Frenchman in 1:37-territory with just a small drop from last year\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p>Following the departures of Carr and <strong>Trenton Julian<\/strong>, Lasco will play an even more vital role on the Bears\u2019 relays. While he is not known for individual success in freestyle races, he has consistently split 41s on Cal\u2019s 400 free relay, and at the midseason Minnesota Invitational, he posted a 1:30.79 split on the 800 free relay, a career-best by almost a second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat meet (NCAAs), you never know how it\u2019s going to go down, how fast people are going to swim in prelims, so for me, it\u2019s always making A-final and scoring the maximum amount of points that I can for my team,\u201d Lasco said. \u201cWhen I do that, I feel like all the times take care of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Championship teams ride momentum at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA<\/a> Championships, and year after year, Durden\u2019s Cal squads always show up and swim fast, outperforming their pre-meet psych sheet projections by large margins even in years when they don\u2019t win the title. Lasco attributes that success to Cal prioritizing the end-of-season meet above all else, even at the cost of faster times along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially a meet like NCAAs, you have to make sure you have your aerobic base and you have to have your speed,\u201d Lasco said. \u201cWhat I figured out with Dave is you can\u2019t be resting all the time because I have such an intense schedule at NCAAs. It shows with the guys, too. Bjorn (Seeliger) is a big-rest guy, and we just save our juice for March because that\u2019s where champions are made, and that\u2019s where the most pressure is. Pressure forms diamond basically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSITION TO LONG COURSE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Outside of college swimming, Lasco has yet to match his short course success in long course. He placed fifth in the 200 meter back at both the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials and 2021 U.S. International Team Trials, and he tied for fourth in the 200 IM at the latter meet. But Cal practices extensively in long course, including an early January training camp at the Olympic Training Center that consisted exclusively of long course workouts, and Lasco believes that continued work on precise timing in long course will yield strong returns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYards comes natural to me,\u201d Lasco said. \u201cI\u2019ve been blessed to have good underwaters, so that\u2019s all taken care of, but for me, for long course, what I\u2019ve been working on to improve is my tempo. I build my speed in yards off my turns, and in long course, you don\u2019t have turns. It\u2019s all tempo and rhythm, so that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been working on nonstop this past season, my tempo. I keep it simple as that because I feel like I do put in the work to swim a correct 200 long course. It\u2019s having tempo, but not slipping at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, it\u2019s not that next championship or leveling-up in long course that pushes Lasco daily, but the daily grind of getting to that point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat pushes me is enjoying the process and enjoying the grittiness of not only swimming, but the full package of being who I want to be, and for me, that\u2019s being a great swimmer, but also being a great student as well and doing well in both,\u201d Lasco said. \u201cBeing at Cal, it\u2019s super easy to be motivated because of the amount of talent and depth we have at practice every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An A+ Student Of the Sport: Destin Lasco Leading Cal In Pursuit Of Another NCAA Title The best swimmers recognize the value of process above simply results. 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