{"id":570534,"date":"2023-10-13T03:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T10:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=570534"},"modified":"2023-10-14T07:09:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T14:09:56","slug":"jack-alexy-has-walked-through-door-to-american-sprinting-prominence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/jack-alexy-has-walked-through-door-to-american-sprinting-prominence\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Alexy Has Walked Through Door to American Sprinting Prominence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jack Alexy Has Walked Through Door to American Sprinting Prominence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>With <strong>Caeleb Dressel\u2019s<\/strong> future uncertain, with a generation of sprinters aging out, with the American men looking desperately for a steady source of medals, <strong>Jack Alexy<\/strong> has taken advantage of the opportunity before him and has swum his way into American sprinting prominence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With his cerebral outlook, <strong>Jack Alexy<\/strong> would\u2019ve put two and two together.<\/p>\n<p>He would\u2019ve read the tea leaves in the American sprinting environment, would\u2019ve seen the veterans from the last Olympics now absent, would\u2019ve spied a place for himself in the new generation of talents. Once he made a pair of NCAA finals in the spring, Alexy would\u2019ve glimpsed the paucity of Americans in the ready room and understood just how rarefied the air of American sprinting is.<\/p>\n<p>Alexy assembled an outstanding 2023, one that seemed years in the making. But the beauty of this summer\u2019s explosion onto the international scene was how well it met the opportunity before him.<\/p>\n<p>The five medals he earned at the World Aquatics Championships\u2014men\u2019s medley relay gold; silvers in the men\u2019s 50 and 100 meter freestyles plus the mixed 400 free relay; and a bronze in the men\u2019s 400 free relay\u2014have cemented Alexy\u2019s place among the American swimmers to watch in the year leading to Paris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROMISE REALIZED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Athleticism runs in Jack Alexy\u2019s veins. The fact that those veins fill a 6-foot-7, 215-pound frame offer pretty solid evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Alexy\u2019s grandfather is <strong>Bill Ebben<\/strong>, an All-American forward at Detroit Mercy who played eight games in the NBA as a third-round pick of the Detroit Pistons in 1957-58, the organization\u2019s first year moving from Fort Wayne. Mom, <strong>Lynn Ebben<\/strong>, was a standout guard at Notre Dame in the mid-1980s, winning a pair of conference titles. Jack and <strong>brother Rob<\/strong> both swim at Cal. His <strong>older brother, Max<\/strong>, swam at Delbarton School, and <strong>sister, Kate<\/strong>, was part of Kenyon\u2019s Division III powerhouse, while the family all contributed to Greater Somerset County YMCA\u2019s well-regarded program.<\/p>\n<p>Jack was an outstanding youth swimmer. A junior national champion in the 100 free in 2019, he set the third-fastest time ever in the 15-16 age group in that event at Phillips 66 Nationals that summer. He entered Cal in the fall of 2021 as the fastest 100 freestyler in the nation in his high school class.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_530393\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530393\" data-attachment-id=\"530393\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/jack-alexy-has-walked-through-door-to-american-sprinting-prominence\/jack-alexy-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jack-alexy-2023-US-Nats-0859-Enhanced-NR.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Peter H. Bick&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;OM-1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;jack-alexy-&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1687910101&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Peter H. 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Bick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jack-alexy-2023-US-Nats-0859-Enhanced-NR-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jack-alexy-2023-US-Nats-0859-Enhanced-NR.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-530393\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jack-alexy-2023-US-Nats-0859-Enhanced-NR-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"jack-alexy-\" width=\"403\" height=\"288\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-530393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His watershed moment came at Olympic Trials in 2021, where Alexy finished 10th in the 100 meter free. His time of 48.69 downed the national age group record for 17-18-year-olds that belonged to Dressel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople would ask me, \u2018Oh, do you think he is going to make the Olympics some day?,\u2019\u201d said <strong>Patrick Savidge<\/strong>, Alexy\u2019s coach at Delbarton. \u201cI would answer, \u2018I don\u2019t know, he\u2019s still young. It\u2019s hard to tell his path.\u2019 The 2021 Trials when he went 48.6 and broke the national age group record, that was a swim that was like, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s incredible!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For all his youth success, Alexy\u2019s road to the senior international scene has had a few bumps. Despite the NAG, he didn\u2019t make a final at Olympic Trials, finishing 10th in the 100 free, 17th in the 50 free and 33rd in the 100 back.<\/p>\n<p>His transition to Cal wasn\u2019t smooth, and the momentum from his NAG into Berkeley fizzled during his freshman year. He placed third at the Pac-12 Championships in the 100 yard free (41.93 seconds) and sixth in the 50 (19.35) in the spring of 2022. While he was on relays that helped the Golden Bears win an NCAA title, he didn\u2019t score individually, finishing 23rd in the 50 free and 100 free.<\/p>\n<p>The dip in form lasted into the summer, when he was seventh in the 50 meter free at International Team Trials, but a non-factor in the relay reckoning for the 2022 World Championships. He finished 24th in the 100 free, his time of 49.97 nowhere near his best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy whole freshman year, adjusting to college life and college training was really tough,\u201d Alexy said at Trials this season. \u201cEveryone at Cal is very supportive and helps us achieve success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BREAKTHROUGH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With a year to acclimate, the results have fallen into place in 2023. Alexy had a massive NCAAs, helping Cal win another national title. After three A-finals at Pac-12s, including a runner-up finish in the 100 free, he cracked the top eight in both the 100 free and 50 free at NCAAs. He took the silver medal in the 100 with a time of 40.92 seconds and finished sixth in the 50 free. He was a key part of three Cal runner-up relays, the Bears steadily collecting points to add another banner.<\/p>\n<p>Alexy regards himself as better in the long-course pool, and his short-course excellence furnished plenty of confidence for that season. He came out firing at Phillips 66 Nationals, winning the 100 meter free with a best time of 47.75 seconds in prelims. He added a runner-up result to <strong>Ryan Held<\/strong> in the 50 free in 21.63. His goals in Indianapolis at Trials were modest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just trying to make the Worlds team,\u201d he said then, \u201cwhether it be an individual or relay spot, and very happy with that time and my place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Savidge, who started coaching Alexy when he was a sophomore at Delbarton, isn\u2019t surprised by Alexy\u2019s understatement. It\u2019s part of the way he approaches the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really is a quiet kid, and I think a lot of that is he\u2019s doing a lot of analyzing and introspection and stuff like that,\u201d Savidge said. \u201cHe\u2019s always brought that to swimming. He\u2019s always thought about his races and what went well, what he could have done better. He\u2019s never been that loud celebration guy, the one smacking the water and going wild. A lot of times, that\u2019s what he\u2019s thinking about after a big race: \u2018Wow! That was awesome, but how can I learn from this, and what can I do to keep doing it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexy understood the opportunity at Trials. Of the five swimmers to take part in the 400 free relay that won gold in Tokyo two years ago, two (<strong>Bowe Becker<\/strong> and <strong>Zach Apple<\/strong>) are retired. With Dressel not at his best and <strong>Brooks Curry<\/strong> enduring an off-2023 by his standards, the door was wide open for someone\u2014<em>anyone<\/em>\u2014to grab relay spots. Meanwhile, <strong>Blake Pieroni<\/strong> is lurking for a return to his past strength.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the youth movement that swept in. Alexy led the way in 47.93, 5-hundredths up on Notre Dame\u2019s <strong>Chris Guiliano<\/strong> and 6-hundredths ahead of <strong>Matt King<\/strong>. The top five finishers, with Held fifth, were separated by 15-hundredths of a second. Most of the squad that would go on to win bronze in the 400 free relay in Fukuoka were first-timers at major international meets.<\/p>\n<p>Once in Japan, Alexy raised his level. He shook off a woeful start in the semifinals of the 100 free, in which he scraped into the final in eighth place by just 2-hundredths of a second, to nab a medal from an outside lane. <strong>Kyle Chalmers\u2019<\/strong> torrid final 50 in Fukuoka swept him up, but Alexy ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/jack-alexy-fills-void-as-rising-u-s-sprint-star-with-opportunistic-silver-medal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with silver in 47.31<\/a>, making him the 13th fastest performer all-time and second among Americans only to Dressel. His time of 21.57 in the 50 added a second silver, again behind an Aussie in <strong>Cameron McEvoy<\/strong>. He finally ascended the top step on the podium by anchoring the men\u2019s medley relay to gold in 47.00.<\/p>\n<p>The parallels to an American sprinter of the past seem apt, and Alexy invoked him after his performance at Trials. Alexy\u2019s international exploits put him on par with Dressel and former Cal legend <strong>Nathan Adrian<\/strong>. While it\u2019s only one outstanding summer, that\u2019s the echelon Alexy is pushing into.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not only a great legacy at Cal but a great legacy of sprint freestyle in the USA,\u201d Alexy said. \u201cObviously, Nathan Adrian\u2014pretty big shoes to fill\u2014but I feel like I\u2019m in the right direction, making my college team proud and also my country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Alexy Has Walked Through Door to American Sprinting Prominence With Caeleb Dressel\u2019s future uncertain, with a generation of sprinters aging out, with the American men looking desperately for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":530390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122077],"tags":[70001],"class_list":["post-570534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","tag-jack-alexy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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