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3-Time NCAA Champion Shaine Casas Will Transfer Out of Texas A&M
For those who don't follow swimming much...this is HUGE, Shaine Casas is one of the best swimmers in the US right now! He was an SEC/NCAA champion in the 100/200 backstroke and the 200 IM and just missed being on the Olympic team this year by tenths of a second. He's the best swimmer in the SEC and aggy has no one on their roster who's even close to his talent level, they went from SEC contenders to pretenders.
I have a very plausible theory on how Shaine came to this decision...
Shaine competed at the Texas Senior Circuit Long Course Meet at a&m the week after the Olympic Trials, he swam the 100 free and 100 fly and set personal best and pool record times in both events. Since he was the top seed in both events Shaine swam in lane 4 for prelims and finals; the fastest swimmers swim in lane 4, second fastest in 5, 3rd in 3, 4th in 6, etc.. They were short on timers for the meet so, for the most part, there were a couple of lanes that had the same timer for the duration of the meet, lane 4 was one of those and the gentleman timing Shaine for each of his swims was a Longhorn...yes, I was that timer. I believe that while he was warming down after each event Shaine pondered what was different about his swims that day as opposed to all of the other meets he'd been in over the last year and that the one thing that stood out above anything else was the fact that he had the same timer for each event and that timer was a Longhorn and that his inspiration didn't come from his home natatorium or his teammates but from the Longhorn logo he glimpsed before he stepped up to the block. While I'm sure being coached by Eddie Reese and the chance at a national championship played at part I don't think that either were the driving force...I'm taking credit for this recruitment!!
For those who don't follow swimming much...this is HUGE, Shaine Casas is one of the best swimmers in the US right now! He was an SEC/NCAA champion in the 100/200 backstroke and the 200 IM and just missed being on the Olympic team this year by tenths of a second. He's the best swimmer in the SEC and aggy has no one on their roster who's even close to his talent level, they went from SEC contenders to pretenders.
I have a very plausible theory on how Shaine came to this decision...
Shaine competed at the Texas Senior Circuit Long Course Meet at a&m the week after the Olympic Trials, he swam the 100 free and 100 fly and set personal best and pool record times in both events. Since he was the top seed in both events Shaine swam in lane 4 for prelims and finals; the fastest swimmers swim in lane 4, second fastest in 5, 3rd in 3, 4th in 6, etc.. They were short on timers for the meet so, for the most part, there were a couple of lanes that had the same timer for the duration of the meet, lane 4 was one of those and the gentleman timing Shaine for each of his swims was a Longhorn...yes, I was that timer. I believe that while he was warming down after each event Shaine pondered what was different about his swims that day as opposed to all of the other meets he'd been in over the last year and that the one thing that stood out above anything else was the fact that he had the same timer for each event and that timer was a Longhorn and that his inspiration didn't come from his home natatorium or his teammates but from the Longhorn logo he glimpsed before he stepped up to the block. While I'm sure being coached by Eddie Reese and the chance at a national championship played at part I don't think that either were the driving force...I'm taking credit for this recruitment!!
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