At summer club meets he kind of coaches little kids at Hillside.

She talks to all the other coaches and even the assistant coaches. She introduces herself to people. At the big meets there are these huge warm-ups with girls running into each other, and usually when people do that, they come up growling at each other. Joy will pop up and smile and say hello. She's a wonderful person first, then coincidentally happens to be a really great swimmer.

She had a sweet, sweet 50 in the prelims last year (26.1), so that was kind of what we were chasing and it just didn't quite come down for her this year. So I was hoping there was a 50 sprinter in there with that distant sprinter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

I don't think a lot of teams were counting on him to be as fast as he is. He works hard. He hits two-a-days, and last year was really his first time swimming.

But I think I am the only one that feels any pain about that. He just moves forward and does what he needs to do.