Breaststroker Sean Mahoney will be joining his fellow Cal Bear alum Anthony Ervin on a complete World Cup circuit, Bolles coach Sergio Lopez revealed in a blog post today. The full schedule is below.
Dubai, UAE – October 2nd-3rd, 2012
Doha, Qatar – October 6th-7th, 2012
Stockholm, Sweden – October 13th-14th, 2012
Moscow, Russia – October 17th-18th, 2012
Berlin, Germany – October 20th-21st, 2012
Beijing, China – November 2nd-3rd, 2012
Tokyo, Japan – November 6th-7th, 2012
Singapore, Singapore – November 10th-11th, 2012
After a six-month doping suspension cost Mahoney most of his first professional season, he returned in 2011 with the best time of his career in his best event: the 200 breaststroke. He ended the year ranked 22nd in the world, but 2012 didn’t treat him as well. He was 2 seconds off of that 2011 time at the Olympic Trials and finished only 13th.
Since then, he has travelled to Jacksonville to train with Lopez at the Bolles School. The two ha previously worked together during the 2006-2007 season when both were at West Virginia. The next year, Mahoney transferred to Cal and Lopez took the job at Bolles. In that one year, though, Mahoney broke the school record in the 200 breast and West Virginia won their only Big East team championship.
Beginning Tuesday in Dubai, we’ll find out if they were able to gel as well in round 2.
Curious to know, are swimmers expected to fund this on their own? That’s extraordinarily expensive ($10,000+!!!!!)! Do most swimmers go to every meet of the world cup, or do they only do a few because of costs?
anonymous2 – they are mostly responsible for their international travel. Local travel, meals, and hotels for a certain number of athletes per federation are covered by the hosts.
Some federations will cover those airfare, others will not. I haven’t seen anything that says the Americans are being covered, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t I assume for the Junior Team trip they are…