American swimmer Michael Andrew has revealed that for the primary time in his aggressive swimming profession, he’ll now not prepare primarily together with his father Peter Andrew as coach within the new quad.
On the newest episode of The Social Kick podcast, Andrew, 25, says that he is aware of who he’s going to coach with however can’t reveal that but – he’s ready for some last approvals – and is at the moment coaching largely by himself with no coach.
Peter Andrew has coached Michael since he was an age grouper in Aberdeen, South Dakota, the place Peter was the coach of the Aberdeen Aquaholics, the place the nuggets of the pair’s now-famous USRPT method to coaching first developed whereas working steady relay practices with younger age groupers.
The household subsequent moved to Lawrence, Kansas, the place a two-lane pool that Peter constructed on the household’s property served as Andrew’s coaching floor till 2018. They then moved to Southern California, the place they educated collectively out of varied swimming pools.
The 2 have turn into an iconic pair in swimming. Whereas not the one parent-child teaching pair on the elite stage of the game, that they had a uncommon mixture the place they have been largely coaching 1-on-1 or in small teams, and the place Michael stayed together with his dad as an alternative of coming into the NCAA system (ala Erin Gemmell).
Michael Andrew extra not too long ago posted on his social media accounts about transferring to Huntington Seashore, California, and now he has confirmed that he’ll now not be coaching together with his dad as his coach.
“I, over the couple of weeks publish Trials, realized that I wanted to do one thing completely different to get again to the place I as soon as was. My want to alter that didn’t come out of pondering my dad will not be a ok coach or that my dad will not be able to it, as a result of we’ve achieved some fairly astronomical issues collectively, which is absolutely thrilling, and one thing that…we are going to all the time have that platform and he’ll all the time be an unimaginable coach. However we now open up the avenue for each of us to study in some completely different capacities.”
Among the many USA Swimming Membership Excellence program squads close by Huntington Seashore are Golden West Aquatics, Irvine Novaquatics, and SOCAL Aquatics Affiliation. The Swim Crew, which is making an attempt to reform a professional group round coach Brett Hawke after the resignation of Mark Schubert, can also be not distant.
He says that he and his father nonetheless work collectively in clinics and as co-owners of the MA Swim Academy and in outreach for the USRPT programming. Michael says that he has nervousness about folks perceiving that this transfer is him rejecting his household and USRPT, however that his father helps his choice.
He says that he’s most excited concerning the alternatives to elevate persistently and prepare in a bunch of professionals which might be “at his stage” and “pushing him day in and day trip.”
Since changing into the youngest American to show professional in swimming at age 13 in 2013, Andrew has had a storied profession together with one of many most-prolific age group record-setting runs the game has ever seen, breaking information of behemoths of the game like Michael Phelps.
Andrew’s profession has included setting a World Report and profitable Olympic gold because the breaststroke leg of the American males’s 400 medley relay on the Tokyo Olympics, 7 World Championship medals in lengthy course, one other 11 in brief course, 4 World Junior Championship gold medals, and nearly 100 medals on the Swimming World Cup tour. His 58.14 within the 100 breaststroke is the present American Report within the occasion.
His dad additionally served as the top coach, and his mother because the Normal Supervisor, of the New York Breakers workforce of the Worldwide Swimming League.
Michael Andrew didn’t qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Crew. On the U.S. Trials, he completed fifth within the 50 free (21.81), eighth within the 100 breast (1:00.11 after a semis 59.65), and sixteenth within the 100 fly (52.98). All occasions have been considerably slower than his bests.
Within the clip, Andrew additionally says that he’ll race within the World Aquatics World Cup Sequence within the fall.
