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So much so that when a friend asked Torres if coaching might be in her future once her daughter went off to college, the Olympian\u2019s answer was, \u201cyes and no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would take the right situation to grasp the 12-time Olympic medalist\u2019s attention, to pique her legendary fire to defy the odds. Boston College was just that situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t want to be thrown in a situation where everything&#8217;s just great and you have these top swimmers,\u201d Torres said by phone, a week after BC hired her to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympian-dara-torres-named-head-coach-at-boston-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s swimming and diving programs<\/a>. \u201cNo, I want to build. I want the challenge of bringing this program sort of back up again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torres\u2019 first coaching position is going to be a rebuild from just about the ground up, tasked with rejuvenating a program that was suspended last September for the entire season due to a hazing scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Torres represents \u201ca fresh, new chapter,\u201d in the words of BC Athletic Director <strong>Blake James.<\/strong> She replaces <strong>Joe Brinkman,<\/strong> whose staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/boston-college-swimming-program-suspended-indefinitely-for-hazing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was suspended in September when the season was paused<\/a> and dismissed in January, with the program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/boston-college-suspension-will-continue-through-august-coaching-staff-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially suspended through August<\/a>. Brinkman had been starting his second season in charge.<\/p>\n<p>An icon of swimming, Torres has never been far from the sport. She\u2019s also never been bashful about taking on a challenge, the more naysayers the better it seems. Doubting the winner of four Olympic gold medals and five-time Olympian \u2013 who came out of retirement at age 33 to make the Olympics in 2000, then did so again in 2008 age 41 \u2013 carries a certain peril.<\/p>\n<p>Coaching, though, has never quite fit into the 57-year-old\u2019s priorities. A single mother, she has devoted the last 18 years to her daughter, Tessa, who starts college this fall. That left time to be many things, including an author, speaker, spokesperson, clinic coach and master\u2019s coach. But coaching at the club or college level was not something she had time for.<\/p>\n<p>Torres didn\u2019t necessarily plan on coaching as an empty-nest alternative. But she followed the events that cost Boston College its season and reached out to the university to see if there was a way she could help.<\/p>\n<p>When the job posted, Torres again reached out, with the first resume she\u2019d compiled in her life and for the first ever series of job interviews. Her ideas and passion for the position helped her land it.<\/p>\n<p>The perspective that she\u2019s bringing is clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese kids have gone through a lot this past year,\u201d she said. \u201cI just think they need a reset, a fresh start, a fresh set of eyes, someone who can help motivate them and help them learn from what happened in the past, but you learn and you move forward and you look to the future. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s a lot of moving parts of this job, and it was something that I really wanted to be a part of, especially with the tradition at BC of being such an incredible school, the tradition there and their mission statement and what they&#8217;re about, I thought that it would be a great fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though short on coaching experience, Torres is long on life experience. She\u2019s swum for the likes of <strong>Randy Reese, Mark Schubert<\/strong> and <strong>Richard Quick,<\/strong> coaches who have won dozens of NCAA titles and from which she takes both dos and don\u2019ts. With four older brothers and a long history of training with men, she understands gender dynamics in the pool. When it comes to taking on challenges in the face of prevailing sentiment \u2026 that requires no explanation given her track record in.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s clear-eyed about the challenges. Boston College is at the bottom of the ACC (the men and women each finished 12th <a href=\"https:\/\/bceagles.com\/news\/2023\/2\/18\/swimming-eagles-best-nine-school-records-at-acc-championships.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the conference championships in 2023<\/a>), with few resources to contend with its much larger, public institutions. That was true even before last year\u2019s fiasco. Her job will require more fundraising than the average college coach\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>But the starting point also sets a floor from which Torres is confident she can lift the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince they&#8217;ve been at a low this past year, I feel like they have nowhere to go but up,\u201d she said. \u201cI thrive on challenges. This obviously is going to be a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I Want to Build\u2019: Dara Torres Embraces Challenge of Boston College Coaching Job Coaching was never the plan for Dara Torres. But then again, it also wasn\u2019t the plan. 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