{"id":528405,"date":"2023-05-12T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=528405"},"modified":"2023-05-12T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:52:18","slug":"passages-masters-champion-coach-geoff-mykleby-leaves-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-masters-champion-coach-geoff-mykleby-leaves-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: Masters Champion, Coach Geoff Mykleby Leaves Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Passages: Masters Champion, Coach Geoff Mykleby Leaves Legacy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adam Mania<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The swimming community lost a legend over the weekend. Dr. <strong>Geoff Mykleby<\/strong>, also known to some as Molar, The Party Planner, Wolfpack, Dr. Deluxe (I\u2019m sure there are more nicknames) succumbed to a long battle with cancer wrapped in his Big Shoulders Open Water swim shirt that would be his last race. He was 70.<\/p>\n<p>To know Dr. Mykleby\u2019s dying wish, was him in a nutshell\u2013 He wanted as many of his Schroeder YMCA and Cedar Rapids YMCA friends to come out and race together at YMCA Masters Nationals in his honor. He tirelessly called to try to get as many people to come out and do what he always did. Bring swimmers together.<\/p>\n<p>We FaceTimed him from the pool deck. We texted him our splits. We bombarded him with lots of selfies from the bar. With a Seagrams VO&amp;7 in hand, his fave drink.<\/p>\n<p>Mykleby was the reason I kept swimming after college. I had just competed at World Championships and had graduated college at Wisconsin, but was unsure if any more racing would be in my future. I was feeling pretty burnt out\u2013 doubles every day and ~7000 yard sprint practices will do that to you. Coincidentally however, Mykleby happened to be the dentist to some of my friends in Milwaukee and he got in touch with me for some private lessons for a high school swimmer he was mentoring. After a couple pasta dinners he convinced me to move to Milwaukee and train\/coach at the Schroeder YMCA with <strong>Dave Anderson<\/strong> and <strong>Matt Miller<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That decision changed my life. But not just the competing. It was how I would treat swimming in my heart. A gift. An opportunity. A family. Anytime you meet a swimmer, prepare to get sucked into a long conversation. There is a profound bond when you have a shared trauma of staring at that black stripe on the bottom of the pool for endless, painful hours.<\/p>\n<p>As I got to know Mykleby more and more I realized that he was in the business of helping swimmers everywhere. He would volunteer his time giving free clinics in underwater dolphin kicking all over Wisconsin and Illinois. He donated time and money to get the Westgate Pool in Omaha going again, one of his childhood summer league pools. He would go to all the national meets and take pro swimmers out to fancy dinners and ask how he can help them continue swimming. He knew that pro swimming was not easy, nor lucrative. He frequently helped recent college swim grads make connections to kickstart their careers. Even convincing quite a few swimmers to become Dentists themselves. He frequently visited the swimmers at NC State, his alma mater, and gave pep talks, spreading the gospel of the meaningful togetherness that swimming brings. He would give pep talks to the kids at Schroeder as they prepared for YMCA Nationals. He would arrange for young swimmers to enjoy the ISHOF museum with a guided tour from Bruce Wigo. In return for free dental work from him, he would request us to give lessons to those who didn\u2019t have the financial means to pay for them. Mykleby didn\u2019t have children. So swimmers everywhere were automatically his family.<\/p>\n<p>His social circle was unparalleled. I\u2019ve never seen someone shake so many hands on a pool deck. He was also the dentist for the Milwaukee Brewers, frequently giving his season tickets away to swimmers. Sometimes they would even be a bribe. \u201cIf I give you these tickets, you have to come to masters practice tomorrow, and bring a friend.\u201d You\u2019d be surprised how many couples he introduced to each other because of their swimming backgrounds. If he found out you had once been a swimmer in your past, he was 100% determined to get you back in the water. \u201cSwimming doesn\u2019t have to be what it used to be for you,\u201d he would say.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_528407\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-528407\" data-attachment-id=\"528407\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-masters-champion-coach-geoff-mykleby-leaves-legacy\/team-mykleby\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1204,1605\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"team-mykleby\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;team-mykleby&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Adam Mania&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-700x500.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-768x1024.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-528407 \" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby.jpeg\" alt=\"team-mykleby\" width=\"314\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby.jpeg 1204w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-150x200.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-675x900.jpeg 675w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-245x327.jpeg 245w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/team-mykleby-533x711.jpeg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-528407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Adam Mania<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He coined a term that I hope everyone adopts regarding swimming in adult life. He called it the \u201cExecutive Taper.\u201d In high school and college\u2013 as we all know\u2013 swimming means serious business. But after that, as real life ramps up, swimming should stay on taper. If you\u2019re gonna go to an evening masters practice, make time to grab drinks afterwards. If you miss this week, no big deal. Just try again next week, life will be ok! Only got 20 minutes? That\u2019s 20 more minutes of aqua therapy that you wouldn\u2019t have had. Being in the water should be a spiritual experience no matter how many yards you do. And intervals? Forget it! We called that \u201cGoing on the Molar.\u201d Because that time you spend on the wall chatting and waiting for the next interval,\u00a0 \u00a0is just as valuable as the yardage. He believed that whatever you\u2019re in the water for, do it because you want to, not because you have to. And if you feel you have to, figure out how to change that to want to.<\/p>\n<p>Mykleby never let his diagnosis keep him out of the water. If he couldn\u2019t swim, life wasn\u2019t worth it. His last race would be at the Big Shoulders Open Water in Lake Michigan where he was carried out to the lake\u2019s edge. I talked to him on the phone after that and would be hard pressed to remember him happier. That includes after he broke the USMS National Record several years back.<\/p>\n<p>Setting a US Open record. Making the US National Team. Winning a National title. Going best times after college yet swimming a fraction of the yardage. Being a masters coach. And giving countless lessons to aspiring swimmers everywhere. Making the best damn friends imaginable. All never would\u2019ve happened if not for him. I\u2019m sure there are plenty more of you whom he has had a tremendous impact on. And countless more hilarious stories. And whether you knew him or not, I hope you make your way back to the pool, and do a couple extra dolphin kicks for our departed friend Dr. Geoff Mykleby.<\/p>\n<p>RIP old friend and may the swim gods let you go past 15m for eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Mania<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There will be a service in Milwaukee for Mykleby on June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passages: Masters Champion, Coach Geoff Mykleby Leaves Legacy By Adam Mania The swimming community lost a legend over the weekend. 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