The Superstar of Canadian Swimming Summer Mcintosh has decided to make a training change to help in its search for five gold medals in the next Olympic Games.
In an exclusive interview with CBC Sports, Toronto’s 18 -year -old girl said this will be her training last season at the Sarasota Sharks facilities with coach Brent Arckey, who helped her win three gold medals and a money at the Paris Olympic Games last summer.
And he is looking at Bob Bowman, who trained the American Michael Phelps to a record of 23 Olympic gold medals, including eight in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, to help her. Bowman has a lot of experience in helping a swimmer with a multiple events program, more recently the previous Olympic Games when Frenchman Leon Marchae won four gold medals.
“Bob trains the best of all time, swimmer Michael Phelps, to be able to do all those events is definitely an attraction,” McIntosh said. “As I advance to my career, I still want to continue developing other events.
“Just to reflect on the last three years I’ve been in Sarasota, I have grown as much as a person and a swimmer. Brent coach really pushed me to be the best swimmer I could be. I will always appreciate my years here. It has been a great career.”
McIntosh will continue to train with Arckey while preparing for the World Championship in Singapore at the end of July, and Arckey is expected to be on the site as part of the Canadian training team.
McIntosh expects to visit the University of Texas in early March, where Bowman leads the swimming program and also directs a professional program. She said she is not interested in joining an NCAA program, but due to the strict recruitment guidelines of the NCAA, Bowman cannot comment on McIntosh.
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The Native of Toronto and the three -time Olympic champion will leave his training base of Sarasota, Florida, after this summer’s world championship. Among his future options he could be joining the American coach Bob Bowman, former coach of Michael Phelps, in Texas.
“I am discovering a professional team that I could join,” Mcintosh said. “The NCAA is a great option, but for me personally, I think a professional team makes more sense because it makes much more flexibility and is much more individual.”
“Obviously, I am making a rain of ideas about where I should continue not only as a swimmer, but also develop as a human being and where it could be a good place for me,” Mcintosh said.
Bowman served as a coach in the US Olympic team. UU. Since 2004-2016, and was a coach of the Arizona State University from 2015 to 2024. The 59-year-old man moved to U of Texas last year and leads what is widely considered as the main training group in the world, including Marchand and Regan Smith and Simone Manuel of the United States.
Arckey said he can’t think of many coaches or places in the world that would better adapt to Mcintosh than Bowman and the University of Texas.
“If you can find me a better place, then I am all my ears,” he said. “It is a great opportunity. I have supported this all the time. I want to make sure that I will improve and spread its wings. It is just a reflection on us.
“I have had the opportunity to work with Bob and I have nothing more than respect for Bob. When summer began to talk about all this, this was undoubtedly one of the options we launched there.”
Under Arckey, McIntosh has accumulated world records, innumerable world championship titles and his four Olympic medals. No Canadian athlete had won three gold medals in a single game before Mcintosh in Paris. She was appointed Athlete of the Year of Canada by 2024 and was also appointed female of swimmers of the year by World Aquatics.
“From the moment I stepped on the deck just as a visitor, I knew that coach Brent believed in me. When I moved for the first time here, I never thought I would go with all the medals and records and all the things we have achieved,” he said.
Arckey said the decision comes with mixed emotions, but that it is grateful for all the experiences that both have had and the memories they have created.
“I am proud of her. I am proud of what we have done. Obviously, I will be sad to see her leave, but at the same time part of what I do as a development coach is to encourage these children to leave the nest,” he said.
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The domination of the world of swimming of Toronto’s native shows no signs of stopping, breaking records one after another. While Mcintosh prepares to compete in Singapore this summer, Brittany Maclean of CBC Sports immerses himself on his unprecedented trip, as well as what follows for this Canadian icon.
“When summer came here, I said, Canada, we will take care of her because I knew how great it could be and how important it is for the country. Summer is a special and special child.”
John Atkinson, high performance director of Swimming Canada, said Arckey played an instrumental role in Mcintosh’s success.
“Brent was open to try different things, different camps, different events, but did not overload it. It would have been quite easy to add two more events this last year,” Atkinson said. “The coach is a massive part of that with each athlete. He has done an excellent job working with her.”
McInth said that he will add a fifth event to his program in the next World Championship this summer, and for the 2028 Olympic Games. The four basic foods in his program have been the 200 -meter butterfly, 200 m of individual potpourri, 400 m of free style and 400 m individual, in which he has the world record. She just broke the Canadian records and the Commonwealth in the 800 m freestyle with a time that would have won gold in the Paris Olympic Games last summer.
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Toronto’s summer, McIntosh, captured the 200 -meter silver medal that established a new Canadian record time of 1: 59.96 in Budapest.
McIntosh competed in the 200 -meter back blow in the World Championship of Short Courses in Budapest last December, winning silver.
The 800m free and 200 meters have not appeared as regular events in their program and is not prepared to say whether it will be the 800m or 200m back blow that will be part of your program in Worlds this summer.
“I definitely want to do five individual events. How that looks, I still don’t know,” he said.
“Summer can do what he wants in sport. He has the gifts to do that. He trains and works very hard. It depends on it in what he wants to do,” said Arckey.
And she wants to accumulate gold medals at Los Angeles Games in three years.
“I think just putting my hand on the wall first and as much gold as possible is always the goal for me. The final result is to win at all costs and whatever is necessary,” McIntosh said. “Upon entering Paris, that was my goal. I stayed a little below that, but in general I am very happy with that.
“I think that obtaining my first Olympic medal and being silver, having what it felt really motivated me not to get more during the meeting.”
Arckey said that while all gold records and medals have been notable, it is how summer evolved in life that makes it more proud.
“I remember orthopedic devices,” said Arckey, with a smile. “He has become stronger and has become an incredible young woman. This is how I will remember all this. And that is what I expect for anyone who comes here.”
