Leon Marchand & Grant House on ASU Swimming Being Cut to #1 in 10 Years: Episode 126

Coming off perhaps the most impressive dual meet performances ever, including Leon Marchand breaking the NCAA 400 IM record, Leon Marchand and Grant House of Arizona State tell us what’s in the water in Tempe that has ASU swimming so fast right now. The Sun Devils are a decade removed from the program being cut and later reinstated - few could have foreseen this success. Legendary Coach Bob Bowman is building a high performance factory at Arizona State as the college team is among the best in the NCAA and some of the best professionals in the world have flocked to swim under his tutelage. Double IM World Champion Leon Marchand shares what its like to swim in an IM group with a combined 10 Olympic and World Championship medals, and Grant House, a 1:30 short course yards 200 freestyler who finished 2nd at NCAAs explains the mentality and the team chemistry that is the foundation for the success ASU is having right now. Enjoy! 0:00 - 7:55 Intros and Leon recaps his 400 IM NCAA Record 7:55 - 17:42 Grant breaks down the Arizona State team dynamics 17:42 - 32:26 Leon discusses the IM training group at ASU 32:26 - 38:27 Getting to know the ASU Men’s swim team 38:27 - 48:49 Grant and Leon discuss their goals for 2023 Men’s NCAA Championships 48:49 - 51:58 Leon discusses his pre race routine 51:58 - 56:47 Rapid fire More on this race from Léon:    • How Leon Marchand broke the 400 IM NC...   MERCH: www.socialkickswim.com SUBSCRIBE:    / @socialkickswim   LISTEN: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... FOLLOW:   / ​