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LAKELAND — McKeel junior Chance Swinburne swam 50.03 to complete seventh within the 100-yard freestyle final 12 months to fall in need of qualifying for the state meet by simply 9 hundredths of a second. It was the second 12 months in a row he got here up simply in need of qualifying for state.
But that was then.
Swinburne swam 49.10 at meet in September, which might have positioned him fourth finally season’s area meet, and he’s on a tempo that ought to put him comfortably within the combine for a state berth finally this season. He credit an adjustment he has made within the strategy of his swim stroke after altering swim golf equipment final winter.
After swimming for Rip Tide in Lakeland, he swims for SLAC in Clermont. The proprietor and head coach for SLAC is Don Gibb, a former head coach at Florida State who swam 42 seconds within the 100 free in faculty at Florida within the early ‘80s.
“He’s really taught me,” Swinburne said. “I went from doing a stroke that’s very outward like the fly, to doing a straight arm. It’s vastly improved how well I swim. So I think it’s less about just the growing in age, and more really solidifying that technique.”
McKeel coach Roy Wilshire agreed with that assessment.
“It’s definitely helped him because I know coming out of last season he was already talking to me about it, that he wanted to change his stroke,” Wilshire said. “I didn’t quite know where he was heading with it. He’s swimming more the straight arm freestyle now, and it’s been very effective. His timing is right and he’s doing well, with it. So I’m very pleased, for him.”
With so much of athletics being muscle memory, Swinburne, who as first-team, all-county selection last year, has put in a lot of work to master the new technique.
“I would say it’s nonetheless a piece in progress,” he stated. “The first meet I broke 50 (seconds) was in Clearwater. I learned the stroke at the meet as I was, swimming. He guided me through it in the warmups and it really just clicked on the 100.”
Swinburne, who swam for Lake Wales as a freshman, was the county champion within the 100-yard freestyle however completed the season because the second-best swimmer within the occasion within the county. Lake Wales’ Marcos Cabrera, whose greatest stroke is the 100 breaststroke, swam the 200 particular person medley at county earlier than switching to the 100 free at districts for his second particular person occasion.
Whether or not they’ll be a showdown between Swinburne and Cabrera within the 100 free at county or within the postseason — Lake Wales and McKeel are in the identical district — is unclear as Cabrera would possibly keep on with the 200 IM as his No. 2 occasion after the 100 breast.
Swinburne, nevertheless, is solely centered on getting sooner in his occasions. He swam the 200 free final 12 months the place he was No. 2 within the county to George Jenkins’ Dylan Cardosi, who’s now in faculty. This 12 months, Swinburne second stroke has been the 50 free.
The 100 free, nevertheless, stays his focus as it’s his strongest occasion, and it’s unlikely that Swinburne has swam his quickest instances within the occasion. Like cross nation and monitor, coaching for swimming is geared to peaking within the postseason. Swinburne’s objective is to get right down to underneath 48 seconds this season, however maybe a much bigger objective, the place a quick time in fact might be key, considerations the state meet.
“I’m trying to get at least the finals,” he stated. “I’m past the point where entering the states would be big for me. I really want to push how far I can go into it.”
Wilshire stated Swinburne definitely has sooner instances forward of him this season.
“Last year, he could just never quite get it under 50 (seconds), and he can swim easily under a 50 now, 48 high, 48 mid. Forty-nine is just not, I won’t say not a challenge, but now it’s just very achievable most every time he gets in the pool. Last year, he was always right there, low 50s. He changed his tactics on how he swims, also, actually swims the event. He was always kind of a hit the 75 (yards) and then chase you down. He’s just changed his tactics that way, and it’s also helping.”
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