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Eddie Reese completed his 39th season at Texas (2016-17) by winning his third consecutive NCAA team title. In all, he’s led Texas to an NCAA-leading 13 national team titles, 11 NCAA runner-up finishes, and 31 top-three finishes at the NCAA Championships while being named a three-time CSCAA National Coach of the Year, an eight-time NCAA Coach of the Year, and a four-time ASCA Coach of the Year.
The list of accomplishments for Coach Reese doesn’t stop there! He’s now led his teams to 38 consecutive top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships and 38 consecutive conference titles. Along the way, he’s coached three U.S. Olympic men’s swimming teams (1992, 2004, 2008) including 29 Olympians who have collected 39 gold medals, 16 silver medals and eight bronze medals. His teaching has also helped his swimmers collect 67 NCAA individual championships and 48 NCAA championship relays through the 2017 season.
Coach Reese, the only college swimming coach to win NCAA team titles in four separate decades, has established a tradition of excellence in Austin and set the standard in collegiate swimming through his 39 years at Texas. He’s the winningest coach in the sport’s history with 13 NCAA team titles, a figure that also positions Texas as the winningest NCAA Division I men’s swimming & diving program.
Reese combines his overall theory of how the butterfly stroke should be swam with the realities of the common problems that many flyers experience on their butterfly swimming journey. He’s always believed that too many drills are too many drills, and therefore has a small library of his go-to drills to teach the nuances of the stroke.
This first video segment from his Eddie Reese on Butterfly full-length video shares four simple fly kicking activities that all combine to train a fast kick with little wasted energy.
Identifying common stroke problems for varying levels and ages of flyers is extremely helpful in the advancement of all swimmers. In this second video segment, you will get an idea of how he approaches the most common errors of the stroke along with his suggestions for correcting a particular error.
Among six common errors with corrections demonstrated in the video, this clip reflects the error of rushing the entry into the catch and not exhibiting patience to ride the glide at the front of the stroke that is necessary for fast and efficient fly. Coach Reese believes that this error is a common problem, especially among younger flyers.
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