After an outstanding performance at the 2017 FINA World Championships, Team USA’s Caeleb Dressel has been named Male Swimmer of the Meet. In his first World Championships, Dressel won 7 gold medals. Individually, he won 3 World Championships titles: the 50 free, 100 free, and 100 fly. He was also a member of 4 champion relays.
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel wins 50 free at the 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel and Nathan Adrian – 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel and Nathan Adrian – 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel wins 50 free at the 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel wins 100 fly at the 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel wins 100 fly at the 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel wins 50 free at the 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
Caeleb Dressel 2017 World Championships Budapest, Hungary (photo: Mike Lewis)
I want to see Schooling breaking the WR first. Hopefully next year Asian or Commonwealth Games.
The Sea Games are up next for Joseph in late August.
Yup but i doubt he will break the WR in SEA. It is not a major meet and not necessarily to have very gd time to win in regional meet.
Did anyone notice during the men’s 400 medley relay interview with the USA men that Caeleb Dressel looked quite a bit shorter than the other guys. I know Grevers is 6’8″ and Cordes and Adrian are 6’5″ and 6’6″. Dressel looked about 6’1″ instead of his listed 6’3″.
Just curious…….
Adrian is huge.I saw him very close in a press room and his 6-6 looks seven feet tall!Fratus is small for a sprinter(listed sometimes as 6-2, but up close he looks like 6 even).I saw a pic of Dressel and Fratus, I can say Dressel is not only 6-1.
Cordes/Adrian/Grevers are all 6’6″
Yeah, I know.But Adrian sturdy physique makes him looks much bigger than Cordes.Lean swimmers(like Ervin) look smaller than heavy muscle ones.
Grevers is 6’8″.
Love the photos!
Me too!!!
Don’t recall any photo vault having this many comments before.
Me neither….. What other Photo Vaults should SwimSwam produce? We try to push out interesting ones.
Sjostrom!!
Dressel Fever..
Part of it’s the Dressel phenomenon. Proablay a bigger part of it is the crushing withdrawal from such an exciting Worlds (for which Dressel produced the most excitement).
Grevers didn’t exactly come back from the dead. Third at OTs (first at the 50 in final) with a 52.6 and 52.7 in semis and finals. I really think he overtrained for OTs. He looked way too thin compared to his just ripped as hell look he had Budapest and at London. Now, Grevers (not Schooling) should’ve been the guy GM Mel was talking about when he was saying more rest after OTs/Rio could make you faster.
As for LaCourt, he’s happy to be out of the drug testing pool, so now if he wants to pee purple, he can.
Yeah, GM Mel — why were you so high on no training = faster Schooling?
….more muscle mass with age.
I also think swimmers with a big backgrounds make gains when they take extended breaks after the Olympics. Ideally, any unnoticed injuries heal (and all elite swimmers suffer from tiny tears, shoulder inflammation, etc)
So, that’s it.
I thought Schooling would go at least 50 low in the 100 fly, enough to win (I could’ve seen a 50.4 winning). Dressel up-ended the event (and all sprint frees). We’re living in the Dressel era now.
The more muscle mass with age is pretty imperceptible between 21 and 25 for most elite swimmers/athletes who have already been 3 years into an elite college strength and conditioning program, unless they were distance swimmers who later up the muscle growth-inhibiting effects of intense aerobic exercise and became middle-D or sprinters. Schooling is, what, 20? And a very slight guy. None of the active/former UT guys —- Schooling, Haas, Conger, Licon, Smith — are big muscle mass guys. They come down off of intense training tapers, totally unrelated to muscle mass. Phelps bulked up later, but only because he dropped the catabolic effects of training up to the 400 IM. Same with Lochte. Haas may bulk up as he… Read more »
Muscle mass for swimmers who have been performing at a high level changes, 18-20, especially for men. You go from looking like a kid to looking like a man in college. You pack on muscle. Also, swimmers do so much more elite-level training as age groupers (the long grind of base-work), that taking an extended rest after an Olympics makes sense. You have to come back hard and train smart, but rests help the healing process.
But Schooling is 22. Whatever muscle mass he was going to put on — which, by his looks and his body weight wasn’t much — he would have put on, according to your argument a few years ago. He still doesn’t look like “a man” in terms of more heavily muscled. He’s not resting off of much intense on-land resistance work. Frankly, none of the UT guys are — none of their lead guys would be what you call “chiseled.”
You’re right, Bigly. The physical transformation of Murphy and Dressel in college to muscular beasts was very dramatic, and what GM Mel is generically referring to. However, that physical transformation didn’t happen to Schooling: he did not pack on a great deal more muscle. He’s going to need to if he expects to get on the podium again the rate a newly committed to mid/shorter distances Guy is going and the freakish potential of Malik and Dressel.
So what’s the evidence that Schooling had a “big background,” compared to say, LeClos, Phelps, or Cseh who all had years of swimming the 200 fly and 400 IM double, or even Conger who swam the 500 freshman year at UT? None of the Bolles guys came out lighting up 200 LCMs right away in college off of some magical big base. Dressel won the 50 free and didn’t final in the 100 his first NCAAs. Murphy dropped 4 seconds in the 200 LCM back through college. Santorelli? The weakest events at Bolles during that era were actually “big background” events —- 200 IM, 500 free.
Schooling was 1:56 2-fly at 16. I don’t think you can pop a 1:56.67 in 200-fly that young without a big base of work…… Taking a rest, post Olympics, when you’re older, then coming back even stronger in the 100m fly makes sense….. So, I’m basing my calculation off of 2-fly background (and 2-fly background lasts for many years). Most swimmers who pop great 2-flies early on experience a hard 2-3 years of fly training, those years when you learn “not to fear” fly. Schooling’s got that in the tank…. My takeaway from Worlds is that 100 fly is so damn fast, 50 mid-to-plus simply doesn’t cut it anymore. You have to be on your training now or you’ll get… Read more »
Schooling should take up the 200 fly more internationally he was 1:56 so young and the event is much more open then the 100 fly now that caeleb is ripping 50.0 and 49 highs time after time, I think he should take up the 2 fly more, lazlo won’t be around much longer to contest it, seto is to inconsistent on the big stage and sato and kenderesi are tough but with proper training I could see him going 1:52 high like Le clos did in 2012 and that would surely win and we know he can be decent 1:56 at 16 and 1:37 in yards
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It’s obvious that he just doesn’t like it: he scratches it whenever he can. Malik is the future of the 200 fly. Those Hungarians are just born with insane endurance.
I really don’t think an aerobic base magically stays around for three years, and for a 100 fly, it’s really over-rated. The energy systems for a 100 fly and 200 LCM fly are completely different. You train the energy system, and it either stays with you, or it decays rapidly, as it did with Schooling, who has stayed at 1:56 even to this year, and is it did with Phelps and his 4:10 IM at London. The other take away is that the 100 LCM fly is no longer a finesse event, 200 flyers can’t magically be the best (as Phelps was and Cseh tried to be), and non-powerful guys are not going to win. Dressel has Schooling by 25-30… Read more »
Schooling lost to himself in this meet. He is not motivated enough. It’s better to lose now than losing at the Olympics.
A shout out for Adrian ( who probably and secretly wish one day to win a World championship title ) with his Class act at the ned of the 100 free – which is clearly depicted in one of the pictures . What a great heart and Captain .
One photo says it all. Adrian looks so proud! He is genuinely happy for him. Love it
Just seems like such a great sportsman and cerebral swimmer. Dressels instagram post is testimony to great leadership!
Did the same thing (not raising the hand, though) rushing over from his lane to congratulate Ervin after his Rio win. Same joy for a teammate’s success.
Schooling could take a lesson from this, especially since he’s never going to beat Dressel.
Schooling gave Caeleb a hug in the water after the race
He was trying to dunk him. Only chance for a future gold.
Sarah gets the crown this year without a doubt
Gotta love Caeleb, The boy became a man in Budapest!
And Schooling went back to being a boy.
I was wondering when the Schooling ripping would start again. He has a medal in the 100 fly at three consecutive international meets, an outstanding accomplishment.
And then there’s this: http://www.todayonline.com/sports/le-clos-schooling-keep-your-head-focus-what-youre-good. In other words, Chad says, I’ll take the 200 fly, you stick to the 100 fly with that Dressel guy.
Milak mightt have something to say about that
No he actually didn’t say that.
agreed, outstanding swimmer, check the link from Crooked D in the article, there is an embedded interview with Schooling. It’s clear he is hard on himself and now very motivated to get back to work. Actually his persona and competitiveness reminds me of phelps (pre Rio). looking Fwd to the next showdown.
Not really going back to a boy. More like carrying Dressel’s water bucket.
Please dont jeer at other swimmer. This is so rude.. He is a great swimmer. At least he is an individual Olympic gold medalist, but Dressel not yet for now. Pls show respect.