In the SwimSwam Podcast dive deeper into the sport you love with insider conversations about swimming. Hosted by Coleman Hodges and Gold Medal Mel Stewart, SwimSwam welcomes both the biggest names in swimming that you already know, and rising stars that you need to get to know, as we break down the past, present, and future of aquatic sports.
We sat down with sprinter turned distance ace Kristen Stege. Stege, now a sophomore at Tennessee, just dropped a PB 9:40 1,000 free in a dual meet against Georgia. She made headlines in February when she won the AAC title in the 1,650, which was her first time ever competing in a 1,650. Stege takes us through her last year of swimming and why she has actually warmed up to distance swimming after adamantly opposing it as an age group swimmer.
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What I gathered from interview she has been training distance program but thought to be sprinter, so it is not like she trained sprint program before? And I wonder what kind of devils those ECU coaches were as now everything is all roses….
Sprinters who can not make in the the glory events switch to boring distance races.
sure, and swimmers that can’t manage to split within four seconds on a 200 become sprinters
Hey, Townley isn’t a sprinter!
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This kind of stuff is my favorite. I find it so cool how the bodies/physical composition of swimmers can alter in a way that they begin to specialize in different events/strokes. I’ve noticed distance freestylers, IMers, and butterfliers are the most likely to have their specialty change as they grow.
Swimswam will the SEC pre-meet predictions be coming out soon? My favorite time of the year <3
I hope they still have it
Which is more common, sprint to distance or distance to sprint (Tom Jager & Ryk Neethling)?
Distance to sprint definitely seems like it would be more common.
I’d say distance to sprint. See it a lot from older guys who return to the sport. Austin Surhoff is a recent example with his success in the 50 and 100 free after years as an IMer. Justin Ress went from training distance (arguably his best event in high school was the 400 IM, where he was 3:50 in yards and 4:24 in meters) to winning the national title in the 50 back in less than two years.
I agree, the two sprint to distance guys that come to mind off the top of my head, would be Casas and Clark Smith.
It has to be distance to sprint. The majority of the age group clubs I know of work with a top-down approach, where the philosophy is that it is critical to ingrain the muscle memory and aerobic base of distance swimming at a young age, or they’ll probably never be able to catch on at all.
@Coleman yall should interview Geena Freriks who swam at Kentucky about this same topic.
Ok
100s are my distance event
Yea, I really need to work on the back half of my 50.
Chad Sprinter gang says just go faster the first half
Incredible story