Developing Olympians: Sergio Lopez on Coaching Ryan Murphy & Caeleb Dressel
07/16/2024 01:07 PM
By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam
In the SwimSwam Podcast dive deeper into the sport you love with insider conversations about swimming. Hosted by Coleman Hodges and Gold Medal Mel Stewart, SwimSwam welcomes both the biggest names in swimming that you already know, and rising stars that you need to get to know, as we break down the past, present, and future of aquatic sports.
Sergio Lopez has built up programs everywhere he’s been a head coach. Currently, he’s the head coach at Virginia Tech, but he also won a conference title while captaining the West Virginia program. His most legendary stop, though, may have been being the head coach at the Bolles School Sharks, where he coached Olympic champions Ryan Murphy, Caeleb Dressel, and Joseph Schooling, who were all in high school at the time.
Listen to Sergio think back to coaching Murphy and Dressel and what he recalls about what he learned as a coach by working with such immense talents.
- 0:00 Sergio Lopez Introduction
- 1:30 Preparing VT Swimmers for Paris
- 7:50 Murphy & Dressel Making 3rd Olympics
- 11:17 Managing Different Kinds of Athletes
- 14:30 Developing High Schoolers
- 20:13 Making a Plan for Murphy to Make the Olympics
- 23:31 Watching Dressel Practice
- 26:38 Relationship Now
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