Dr. Dave Salo, USC Head Coach ASCA Talk Published in American Swimming Magazine

 Dr. Dave Salo:

Currently Head Coach of University of Southern California (USC), one of his many accolades is he was inducted into the ASCA hall of Fame in 2010! He has worked with Aaron Piersol, Jason Lezak, Amanda Beard, Rebecca Soni, Larsen Jensen, Oussama Mellouli and Klete Kellar to name a few of his athletes. Complete Bio available on USC's website:

http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/salo_dave00.html

From Dave Salo's American Swimming Coaches Associations (ASCA) 2010 Talk "If I can do this Anyone Can" published in American Swimming Magazine Volume 2011 - Issue 1.

"I see Chuck Batchelor in the room. Chuck, I hope you don't mind, but I visited Chuck this last year recruiting one of his athletes. He introduced me as "a great coach". I said Chuck wait that is fine, I really appreciate that. Do you know where Chuck trains? Chuck trains in a lower middle class neighborhood in a crappy pool, low roof, not a very pleasant place to be, but he and his swimmers are busting their butts. He bought this van from somewhere. His assistant coach lives out of Boston and uses this van to drive these kids in to the pool. That is a great coach! That is not what I have to do. I have got three 50 meter pools. I got a great opportunity where I coach. A coach like Chuck, to me, is a great coach. I hope you don't mind me embarrassing you, but that is what mean. Chuck is not sitting there bellyaching about the fact that he has got a crappy facility. He is getting it done in a 25 yard pool. I watched him do a workout and it reminded me of some of the work that I do where we are getting up and out of the water. [They] do some fancy stuff that is pretty cool. He is producing really great athletes. That is what we need to leave with here today with is if you can do that in a bucket, you can do it in a 50 meter pool. You can get it done."