At summer club meets he kind of coaches little kids at Hillside. |
But I think I am the only one that feels any pain about that. He just moves forward and does what he needs to do. |
He has a lot of humility. I've never heard him complain, not once, about the events that he's in or about the relays he's in. |
He's an all around swimmer and diver. In fact, he's going to be a big part in a couple of our relays tomorrow. |
I don't think a lot of teams were counting on him to be as fast as he is. He works hard. He hits two-a-days, and last year was really his first time swimming. |
I think that they are an example to the other freshman of perseverance and what can happen if you dedicate yourself to something. And I don't think it is easy. I don't think it is easy dealing with me. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities. |
Rarely will he say, 'I'm happy with that swim' because he has such high goals. And he won't stop until he meets them. |
She had a sweet, sweet 50 in the prelims last year (26.1), so that was kind of what we were chasing and it just didn't quite come down for her this year. So I was hoping there was a 50 sprinter in there with that distant sprinter. |
She talks to all the other coaches and even the assistant coaches. She introduces herself to people. At the big meets there are these huge warm-ups with girls running into each other, and usually when people do that, they come up growling at each other. Joy will pop up and smile and say hello. She's a wonderful person first, then coincidentally happens to be a really great swimmer. |
We kind of had to reinvent him as a sprinter, and he's doing well. |