{"id":585289,"date":"2024-05-13T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=585289"},"modified":"2024-05-13T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T12:20:23","slug":"tribute-jon-urbanchek-inspired-entire-swimming-community-to-keep-it-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tribute-jon-urbanchek-inspired-entire-swimming-community-to-keep-it-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute: Jon Urbanchek Inspired Entire Swimming Community to &#8216;Keep it Moving&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jon Urbanchek Inspired Entire Swimming Community to &#8216;Keep it Moving&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the U.S. swimming community lost a legend when Jon Urbanchek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-jon-urbanchek-iconic-olympic-michigan-coach-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died at age 87<\/a>. Over the next few days, tributes poured in from across the swimming community, athletes who swam for Urbanchek at the University of Michigan or as professionals as well as from other coaches. Almost all of the memorials invoked Urbanchek&#8217;s favorite phrase, his approach for life both in swimming and outside the sport: &#8220;Keep it moving!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly each comment can summed up as such: great swimming mind but a better person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong>, who swam in Urbanchek&#8217;s group during training camp prior to her first Olympics in 2012, said, &#8220;he has been a coach, a mentor and a friend since then. I learned so much from his kindness and care, and I know all of my coaches have learned much from him, too.&#8221; <strong>Emily Brunemann Klueh<\/strong>, a former U.S. National Team swimmer and current mental health staffer with the organization, wrote, &#8220;The impact you had on me, my career, my family is like none other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A powerful statement from\u00a0<strong>Katie Hoff<\/strong>, who swam for Urbanchek at a USA Swimming training center in Fullerton, Calif., asked rhetorically, &#8220;how do I articulate the joy and meaning that you&#8217;ve brought to SO many lives, including my own?&#8221; Hoff added, &#8220;Thank you for always caring about me as a person first and athlete second.&#8221; Hoff recalled how Urbanchek would pretend to forget the assigned workout twice per week&#8221; and how he provided &#8220;infectious energy that made me want to stay in the sport even when I was going through it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At Michigan, Urbanchek led the Wolverine men to an NCAA team title in 1995, and following his retirement as head coach in 2004, successors\u00a0<strong>Bob Bowman<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Mike Bottom<\/strong> both begged Urbanchek to stay on as an assistant. Bowman and Bottom each publicly shared their remembrances, with Bottom&#8217;s statement calling Urbanchek &#8220;the Yoda to world swimming, add on the sense of humor and occasionally needed warm hug. His wisdom grew and spread over the decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So few people are universally beloved, but Urbanchek was part of that exclusive club, a genuinely kind man to all. Even as one of the sport&#8217;s elder statesmen in recent years, he brought a youthful joy and energy to all sorts of pool decks as decades leading Michigan led into six years assisting the Wolverines, the stint coaching professionals in Fullerton, some time assisting\u00a0<strong>Dave Salo<\/strong> at the University of Southern California and finally a few years as USA Swimming National Team Technical Advisor.<\/p>\n<p>There were hundreds of championship meets over that time, but perhaps none were\u00a0<em>less<\/em> significant than his appearance at U.S. Masters Nationals in Riverside, Calif., in April 2017. That was the meet where\u00a0<strong>Ryan Lochte<\/strong>, then training with Salo and Urbanchek at USC, made his first racing appearance since the infamous gas station incident at the Rio Olympics. Lochte was still serving a USA Swimming suspension at the time, but USMS allowed him to race, and Urbanchek followed.<\/p>\n<p>Were these the most competitive swimmers in the world? Of course not, but Urbanchek was in his element. &#8220;We have tremendous competition in the pool and good vibrations all over this deck,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It still feels like I\u2019m in Coachella Valley right now, all the vibrations coming over here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"585291\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tribute-jon-urbanchek-inspired-entire-swimming-community-to-keep-it-moving\/jon-urbanchek-gang\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1493569292&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00050505050505051&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jon-urbanchek-gang\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-585291 size-medium-small\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang-267x200.jpg 267w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jon-urbanchek-gang.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Urbanchek set up a tent in one corner of the deck marked off with caution tape and a sign reading &#8220;Jon&#8217;s Gang.&#8221; It was an exclusive group, but maybe not considering all the people on deck who knew the coach.<\/p>\n<p>I interviewed Urbanchek at that meet mostly about Lochte&#8217;s return to swimming, but the conversation delved far beyond that. He mentioned how he enjoyed assisting his successors at Michigan, Bowman and Bottom, &#8220;because the buck stops with the head coach. If something goes wrong, go see him! I&#8217;m just an assistant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Urbanchek recalled how he ended up on deck part-time at USC: Salo knew he was living in Los Angeles and asked for help, and Urbanchek&#8217;s wife,\u00a0<strong>Melanie<\/strong>, had graduated from USC. Urbanchek recalled her saying, &#8220;You gave your life to Michigan. How &#8217;bout giving the remaining of your life to my school, to USC?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He shared how the &#8220;Keep it moving!&#8221; mentality was infectious among the swimmers he was working with at the time. &#8220;I go to USC and see all these people, young and enthusiastic. I suck it all in and shove it right back to them. They always ask me, \u2018Jon, what makes you so happy?\u2019 I say, \u2018I have caffeine, and I also have your energy.\u2019 Usually I have a quad latte. That\u2019s four shots,&#8221; Urbanchek said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They ask, &#8216;Jon, what makes you so happy? It\u2019s 5 a.m, 5:30.\u2019 \u2018Heck, I\u2019ve got my juice. I still enjoy it. Probably keep doing it as long as I\u2019m healthy. Just because I\u2019m retired, my wife says it doesn\u2019t mean you stop coaching. \u2018I want you out of the house for three days a week.\u2019 I\u2019m doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And at one point in the conversation, Urbanchek actually took credit for Lochte breaking the world record in the 200 IM, albeit in a joking manner, harkening back to when Lochte qualified for his first Olympic team in 2004 and he swam in Urbanchek&#8217;s group leading up to the Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re doing some IM work, and I see him doing an old pivot turn on IM from back-to-breast. I said, &#8216;What the \u2014 how the hell did you make it to this level if you don\u2019t know how to do a crossover turn?'&#8221; Urbanchek said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Katie Hoff was on the team, so I said, \u2018Hey Katie, how about showing Ryan how to do the crossover turn?\u2019 And she couldn\u2019t get it. Ryan couldn\u2019t get it. So I\u2019m on deck just like this with my board shorts on. &#8216;(Gosh darn) it! I\u2019ll jump in and show it to you. (Darn)!\u2019 Finally, he set the world record for 200 IM \u2014 I guess he still has the record. I said, &#8216;Ryan, you owe me five percent of that. That was my turn!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>That conversation on a sunny spring day in Southern California was classic Urbanchek: begin with a few specific questions, and end up spending 14 minutes laughing and smiling at Urbanchek&#8217;s spirit and zeal. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/news\/2017\/11\/10\/jon-urbanchek-receives-inaugural-ioc-coaches-lifetime-achievement-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first coach to receive the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s Lifetime Achievement award<\/a>, and the reasons go far beyond his ability to write a workout. Simply, the man could inspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Urbanchek Inspired Entire Swimming Community to &#8216;Keep it Moving&#8217; Last week, the U.S. swimming community lost a legend when Jon Urbanchek died at age 87. 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