Adam Mania Gets a Big Shout Out on USA Swim's Site
BY MIKE GUSTAFSON//CORRESPONDENT
Each month, as part of our “Trials and Tribulations” series, we’ll give you an inside look at an Olympic Trials qualifier. If you have a story to share, please email Trials.Tribulations.2012@gmail.com.
Adam Mania went to the 2004 Olympics as a member of the Polish team (he has dual citizenship). Then, in 2007, he decided that he wanted to try for the United States roster. He missed the U.S. team in 2008, but that won’t stop him from attempting to come back and make the team this year. The former swimmer at the University of Wisconsin, and now professional swimmer, is this focus of this week’s Trials and Tribulations Series. He discusses growing up swimming in a tiny pool in Nebraska, and being a post-graduate swimmer enjoying a new phase of swimming competitively,
coaching and training in Milwaukee with Schroeder YMCA.
Talk about your journey to the Olympic Trials. Where are you at now in training?
I’m trying to get back into the swing of things. I just had strep and tonsillitis. I’m slowly rebounding. The original plan was to hit it hard in January and get a good block under my belt, upping the volume. However, upping the volume is, for me, swimming 5 times a week. If I go over three grand, that’s a long practice. So the goal was 5 times a week, 3-4 grand. Intense, max capacity type training. But being sick put a big wrench into that, and I haven’t been feeling too great this month.
