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BY JASON LINCOLN
The Battalion
In 1996, Devin Howard made his debut
on the national scene at the Olympic Trials.
He finished 10th, eight places away from a
trip to the Atlanta Games.
Four years later, Howard is returning to
the Olympic Trials. This time he is in posi
tion to swim his way to Sydney for the 2000
Summer Games.
Howard was fresh out of high school at
the time of his first trial. He would soon
join the Texas A&M swim team, where he
slowly worked his way up the national
rankings as he waited for the next chance to
reach the Olympics — the pinnacle of a
swimmers career.
That chance will come on Aug. 9-16 as
Howard will join America’s best swimmers
at Indiana University. Only the top two in
each event will earn a trip to Australia. The
rest will have to wait another four years.
Competing against the best became a ne
cessity as he quickly excelled under A&M
coach Mel Nash and the Aggie program.
In his first two seasons as an Aggie,
Howard began making his mark on the col
legiate scene, twice qualifying for the
NCAA Championships.
Then in 1998-99, as a junior, Howard
stepped up to the next level and began com
peting on the international scene. It started at
the FINA World Cup hosted by Texas A&M.
Howard swam 2:00.58 in the 200-meter
butterfly, his signature event. It was good
enough for fifth place and a top-20 world
ranking. Howard had found his new niche.
His international competition peaked in
the summer of 1999 with a bronze medal
performance in the 200-fly at the Pan
American Games.
“He’s a dogged competitor, and he’s
feisty in races,” Nash said. “There’s an ob
noxious streak in him when he’s racing. But
that is a good thing.”
Howard has been storming the world
scene lately, as he prepares for his
Olympic goal.
After representing the United States in a
pair of World Cups, he joined 12 other men to
be part of the American delegation to the Short
Course World Championships in Athens,
Greece, the site of the 2004 summer games.
Howard came back with a gold medal as
part of the 800-meter freestyle relay.
Howard swam in the morning portion of the
relay that set an American record, while top
ranked U.S. swimmer Neil Walker rested for
the finals.
That evening, with Walker in Howard’s
place, the team set a world record and a new
American record, and Howard returned
home with a gold medal. Howard swam the
200-fly in two minutes fiat, finishing 14th in
the field of over 40 countries.
Over 20 American records and a dozen
world records were set in Athens as the
United States team went on to win the meet.
“The Short-Course Worlds were great be
cause it was the fastest competition I have
ever faced,” Howard said. “It was great get
ting to see some other competition, besides
the same people you always face in the
States. It was a great experience.”
In 1999, after the national meet, Howard
was ranked fifth in the nation in the 200-fly.
After this year’s national meet, he was
passed by two swimmers because he did not
compete.
Howard is qualified in five events for the
Olympic Trials — the 100- and 200-fly, the
200- and 400-individual medley and the
200-free.
“Now I have a little bit of an advan
tage,” Howard said. “I can look back to
four years ago to prepare. Now I am a lot
more experienced physically and mentally.
Things that bothered me then won’t effect
me this year.”
Howard plans to focus on only the 200-
fly and 200-free for the actual trials.
Howard’s current time of two minutes in
the fly is about three seconds shy of the sec
ond-ranked Ugur Taner. Meanwhile, Tom
Malchow dominates the event at 1:55.
“Devin is really coming into his own for
his age,” Nash said. “He’s in range of mak
ing the games. He’s not an odds-on favorite,
but he definitely has a shot to get there.”
Howard has four more months of prepa
ration to drop his time at least two seconds, a
difficult feat for swimmers at his level.
The rest will come from his stubborn,
never-give-in nature to qualify him a spot
in Sydney.
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