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Having Fun and Swimming Fast, Leah Shackley Looking Forward to Trials<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leah Shackley<\/strong> has a motto that seems to be working pretty well for her, one she plans to follow to Olympic Trials this summer.<\/p>\n

A happy swimmer, to her mind, is a fast swimmer. Shackley comes off as immensely gregarious on deck, which might inform why she\u2019s so fast in the water.<\/p>\n

So when asked last week as to why in the last two years the Pennsylvania high schooler and NC State signee has gotten so fast, she knows it\u2019s not just about the smile, though the joy doesn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n

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Leah Shackley at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont; Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cNot beating yourself up when you don\u2019t go your best times. Always staying positive,\u201d Shackley said at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Championships. \u201cDon\u2019t time chase, me and Tom<\/strong> (Grassadonia<\/strong>, her coach at Bedford High School) call it. It\u2019s not good to do that. I saw a comment that said happy swimmers are the fastest swimmers, and I think that\u2019s so true.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re loving what you\u2019re doing, you\u2019re happy, you\u2019re going to obviously swim fast because you\u2019re in such a good place mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shackley is in a good place right now, physically and mentally. In her final high school meet, she upper her total to six state titles at the PIAA Class 2A Championships. In the smaller of the two classifications, she went 50.29 to win the 100 butterfly, 1.64 seconds faster than her state record from last year. In the 100 backstroke, she lowered .85 seconds off her state record from 2023 to 50.76.<\/p>\n

She completed three-peats in both events. It\u2019s the second straight year she\u2019s lowered the state record in both. Her winning times were faster than the winners in the Class 3A championships, in the case of the 100 back by more than two seconds.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of a massive improvement for Shackley the last few years<\/a>, one that led to the World Junior Championships this year, where she won a gold medal in the 50 fly and a silver in the 100 fly. As a freshman, she went 52.79 in the 100 free at states; she was 49.13 in the winter. Her first PIAA 100 back title came with a time of 55.65, a time she\u2019s slashed by nearly five seconds in three years. Her 100 fly went from 53.98 as a sophomore in 2022 to pushing 50-point.<\/p>\n

States holds a warm place in Shackley\u2019s heart. She hails from Bedford<\/a>, the seat of a county by the same name. The county, nestled 100 miles southeast of Pittsburgh and 100 miles southwest of Harrisburg up against the West Virginia border, has 48,000 residents. Her hometown has less than 3,000.<\/p>\n

Bedford is located in PIAA\u2019s District 5, one of the smallest of the state\u2019s 12. Not only was she Bedford\u2019s lone swimmer at states, but only one other swimmer from the district made states \u2013 in boys or girls, in Class 3A or Class 2A.<\/p>\n

While this month is less busy than some Marches of the past, Shackley was coming off the TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Westmont. Her final PIAA meet remained a priority, though.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have to stress as much,\u201d she said. \u201cThat sounds funny, but I feel very comfortable here. In the big scheme of things, it can get a little overwhelming when you\u2019re at all these international meets because you don\u2019t know that many people and you\u2019re around all these big names in swimming. So whenever I come here, it\u2019s so nice to have familiar faces and be here, swim fast and have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2A meet was her final short-course meet until she heads to Raleigh in the fall. (It means she’ll eschew Y Nationals, where she won four titles last year<\/a>.) Her focus shifts to long-course, and given her hometown, that endeavor requires planning. She normally trains at Blair Regional YMCA in Hollidaysburg, an hour drive each way. But the nearest long-course pool is two and a half hours away.<\/p>\n

So she\u2019ll shift her training this spring to get some long-course in. She has a long-course meet at Mylan Park in West Virginia in April and will spent two weeks training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. She\u2019ll compete in another long-course meet in Charlotte before Trials.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s used to having to adapt her schedule. She usually does morning workouts at the Y, then works in the afternoons at a Hollister outside Pittsburgh before shifts as a lifeguard. With the end of her high school studies just weeks away, she\u2019ll have time to focus on swimming.<\/p>\n

Shackley holds Trials cuts in four events, but she and her coaches have decided to drop the 200 fly, focusing on the 100 and 200 back and the 100 fly. Despite the depth in those events, she\u2019s a darkhorse contender to get a spot in Paris.<\/p>\n

Shackley isn\u2019t trying to limit herself at Trials. She\u2019s there primarily to have fun, knowing her best chance to get to an Olympics might be four years down the road. But if having fun means she\u2019s doing her best, then the door is open for her to achieve something special.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to put pressure on myself,\u201d Shackley said. \u201cI want to go into it having a fun outlook. No pressure, what happens, happens. I just need to swim fast and I need to stay positive and have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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