University of Virginia issued the following announcement on Jan. 5
UVA math professor Ken Ono works with first-year UVA swimmer Emma Weyant, who won an Olympic silver medal in Tokyo last summer. (Photos by Matt Riley, UVA Athletics)
One of the country’s top collegiate backstroke swimmers holds on to the edge of the pool at the University of Virginia’s Aquatic & Fitness Center. With a device for measuring acceleration strapped to his waist, the Cavalier swimmer waits while a team of researchers led by math professor Ken Ono makes a final check of the equipment that will record every aspect of his performance in the water.
When the starter shouts “On your mark, go!,” the first-year swimmer kicks off of the wall into a long underwater glide.
Barely containing his excitement, Ono paces the pool deck as the swimmer breaks the surface of the water with a long, efficient stroke that could carry him as far as the 2024 Olympics.
“The school record for 100 yards is about 45 seconds,” Ono says. “If he can make this length in 11, that will really be something.”
When the swimmer touches the far wall, Ono checks the result on his watch.
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