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Eventually, Krayzelburg found his way to Mark Schubert, the masterly and demanding swim coach at the University of Southern California. It took Schubert less than a week to give Krayzelburg his verdict: "You can be the best in the world." Last year Krayzelburg, now a muscular 6 ft. 2 in. and 190 lbs., broke the world records in the 100-m and 200-m backstroke...
...Eventually, Krayzelburg found his way to Mark Schubert, the masterly and demanding swim coach at the University of Southern California. It took Schubert less than a week to give Krayzelburg his verdict: "You can be the best in the world." Last year Krayzelburg, now a muscular 6 ft. 2 in. and 190 lbs., broke the world records in the 100-m and 200-m backstroke...
...became Blumkin's best swimmer. But Blumkin knew Krayzelburg would be better off in a big-time environment. UCLA would have been the first choice, but the Bruins had recently dropped men's swimming. The University of Southern California was an easy second choice. Blumkin contacted Trojans coach Mark Schubert. "In all the time I've been coaching, this might have been the most unselfish act I've ever seen," Schubert says. "Lenny had another year of eligibility at Santa Monica, but Stu was looking for what was best...
...Schubert, too, was skeptical at the beginning. Potential world champions don't just show up. Of all sports, swimming is the most measured, timed, predictable. There aren't supposed be surprises. Yet here was a big surprise. Schubert, too, became a fast convert. He offered a scholarship. "This was a totally different level of competition for me," Krayzelburg says. "When I showed up, I was the fifth-fastest backstroker on the team. I wasn't eligible for my first year, so I only could swim in the little, 25-meter pool every day, while the team practiced...
...trying to do too much, Krayzelburg finished fifth in the final. If he'd simply repeated his morning time, he'd have made the team. Trojans teammate Brad Bridgewater went to Atlanta and became the Olympic champion. "I called Lenny from Atlanta the night Brad won the 200," says Schubert, who will coach the U.S. men's team in Sydney. "I told him, four years from now that could be him." "The crazy thing is that it could have been him in Atlanta," Blumkin says. "The trials were such a breakthrough for him, and he just kept improving after that...