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Jessica Stephenson heightens training ahead of Commonwealth Games

Sep 03, 2010 Sports

With preparation for the Commonwealth firmly underway, Guyana’s sole swimmer for the Games and 3-time Carifta gold medallist, Jessica Stephenson has stepped up her training with a 2 week training session at South Florida Aquatic Club, based in Coral Springs.
Stephenson was fortunate to have swum directly under Coach Michael Lohberg, who is widely acknowledged to be one of the top 3 breast stroke coaches in the world.
Coach Lohberg is a renowned Olympic Coach who has qualified swimmers for every Olympic Games from 1984 through to 2008, where he had 8 swimmers compete at Beijing including 12 time Olympic medallist Dara Torres. Another of Coach Lohberg’s swimmers – World 100m breast stroke Champion and Olympian Vlad Polyakov  was also kind enough to spend time with the 15 year-old Jessica and encourage her in her breast stroke pullouts.
Jessica will be competing for Guyana at the Commonwealth Games next month in all three breaststroke events (50m, 100m and 200m).
Stephenson commented: “Although the time I spent at Coral Springs was short, the experience was fantastic; to get in the pool each day with Olympians and World Champions inspired me to work even harder to ensure that in the not too distant future, I will be up there with them. Coach Lohberg was so generous in helping me and his love of swimming and his swimmers was so evident, I felt privileged to have been there with them.”

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