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The 2012 NCAA Championship Swimmer of the Meet, started off his senior season on the World Cup Series. In this interview with Garrett McCaffrey, Tom Shields talks about how the experience sharpened his racing skills. He also talks about his approach to his senior season with the Cal Bears. He’s already got 4 individual NCAA championships and 2 team titles and he says the Cal men are in a better spot this fall than ever before.
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Host Garrett McCaffrey is a Division I swimmer who spent 4 years covering the sport as a journalist. His talents in front of and behind the camera brought the swimming community such fan favorites as Split Time, McCaffreyCap, the Morning Swim Show, and numerous swim meet broadcasts. Garrett now coaches club swimming and competes as a masters swimmer. Through posting training videos, interviews and races online, Garrett has created a readily available community for swimming fans to have a dialogue and learn from the best in the sport. Garrett hosts SwimSwam News, SwimSwam Interviews, and SwimSwam Event Recaps.
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Great interview! What a thoughtful and grounded young man. It is obvious there is, has been, and will continue to be, AMAZING leadership within that Cal program. Proud of my buddy Double D! Good luck guys!
He sounds exactly like Seth Rogen 🙂
Great interview, both of you.
Big fan of Tom shields. He seems to have a “bro” attitude on life and swimming. But what makes me like him is he is also well spoken and seems intelligent.
And he’s crazy fast
He sounds dumb, but listen to his words. He’s very intelligent. Unlike Ryan #jeah Lochte.
That was supposed to go under swimfan’s comment.
This guy is so much fun to watch. His relentless energy and enthusiasm is contagious and inspires me to have a different outlook on my swimming. I think we have ourselves a future coach here…..
Great attitude from a great guy. Best of luck to him this season and next summer! Go Bears!
he is gonna rock for Usa team pretty soon along with Conor Dwyer ! those guys are the future
of Us swimming .