World Record Holder Caeleb Dressel Spending The Week Coaching At Virginia

World Record holder Caeleb Dressel is spending the week coaching up in Charlottesville, Virginia with the University of Virginia and their professional group.

Dressel spent his collegiate profession at Florida and skilled in Gainesville till he modified coaching bases final fall in October. He reunited with Steve Jungbluth, who was one of many coaches at Florida earlier than becoming a member of Sporting Jax Aquatic Club out of Jacksonville, Florida.

“Caeleb‘s Coach, Steve and I have known each other since Ryan Held and Caeleb made the Rio Olympic team together,” said Virginia head coach Todd DeSorbo. “Now that Caeleb is training one-on-one with Steve they thought it would be a good opportunity to get out and just have a group of train with for a little bit. So Caeleb is just here hanging out doing some different things and being around a group setting. He’s good pals with the Walsh’s and KD and he’s simply been coaching alongside Gretchen attempting to select up new suggestions and seeing what he can study and luxuriate in himself a bit.”

Virginia shouldn’t be the primary cease for Dressel since his teaching change as Dressel has additionally hung out in California with Aquatic Sports Performance (ASP) and is receiving energy help from Sean Kao of ASP.

Back in December, Dressel talked about how he hoped to make a journey as much as Charlottesville someday quickly, though nothing was deliberate on the time.

While at Virginia, Dressel, the boys’s 100 butterfly World Record holder, is ready to practice alongside the ladies’s 100 butterfly World Record holder Gretchen Walsh as Dressel’s finest time is a 49.45 and Walsh lowered her personal World Record with a 54.33 earlier this month on the Fort Lauderdale Open. Dressel was additionally on the Fort Lauderdale Open and swam to a 51.26 100 fly, his quickest 100 fly for the reason that 2024 Paris Olympics.

In addition to Gretchen Walsh, Dressel can also be capable of practice with fellow dash freestyler Kate Douglass. Gretchen Walsh and Douglass each maintain the American Record within the LCM 50 free whereas Dressel holds the boys’s 50 free.

On the boys’s facet, Dressel has an opportunity to coach with Thomas Heilman who represented the US within the males’s 100 fly on the 2025 World Championships.