Three years ago, Jones finished 43rd out of 45 in Olympic trials for the 200m backstroke, his signature event. Now he is keeping pace with Cal alum and six-time Olympic medalist Ryan Murphy as they…
Keaton Jones at the Spieker Aquatics Complex on the campus of UC Berkeley on Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Berkeley, Calif. Jones is heading to the Summer Olympics for the first time as a member of the U.S. swim team. If the NBC cameras had caught footage of Keaton Jones’ parents when the results lit up on the scoreboard at the USA Swimming Olympic Trials last month, it wouldn’t have been pretty.
This time around, he had the swim of his life, registering a 1:54.61 that was just 0.28 seconds behind Ryan Murphy, a four-time Olympic gold medalist. His second-place finish secured his spot in Paris this summer. “He was 5 or 6 and he was so terrible,” said Elizabeth Jones. “He was not good. But he loved it. He had so much fun, made all these friends.”
A former world champion when she was 10, Sherman was on the path to representing her native Romania at the Olympics one day when tragedy struck. She was hit by a car and came away with thoracic outlet syndrome in her shoulder. Her career was over. “When she put that into perspective I was like, OK, I need to attack every workout,” he said. “That was huge for me. She prepared me so well.”
The lesson? He had to relax and enjoy himself. Too much pressure, too many nerves, and he would sink. “It derailed him, but I told him, ‘Even before mono you were doing some incredible stuff,’” Durden said. “He may have not had the performances yet in the pool, but we have two world champions in Hugo Gonzalez and Ryan Murphy, and an American record holder, Destin Lasco, training next to him. You see what he was doing every day next to them and that doesn’t go away just because you have mono.”
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