Eddie Reese Book

Billy, I thought you would enjoy this if you have not seen it already. 

Some of the proceeds from these two fine men will go to benefit scholarship funds and Texas One Fund for swimming and diving. 

I’m sure you’ve read the book and with Eddie’s voice now captured, we expect this classic to be a standard fixture for every sportsperson. 

Darrell

Sent: Friday, January 19, 2024 at 7:47 AM
From: “Chuck Warner” <andthentheywongold@gmail.com>
To: “Chuck Warner” <andthentheywongold@gmail.com>
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: The First audiobook Ever on the life and career of an Olympic Swim Coach: Eddie Reese

From: ARETE Aquatic Services & eddiereesebook.com

For release on January 19, 2024 

The FIRST audiobook EVER on the life and career of an OLYMPIC swimming coach. 

Seven time USA Olympic swim coach, fifteen NCAA Team titles and head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns men’s swimming team for 46 years, Eddie Reese’s inspiring life and career are chronicled by two of his assistant coaches from his first years at Texas. Former Texas Governor Rick Perry suggested that Coach Reese is the finest man and most effective coach, not just in the highly competitive field of world-class swimming, but in any sport. Eddie Reese’s swimmers have won thirty-nine gold, sixteen silver, and eight bronze medals at the Olympic Games.

The book “EDDIE REESE: Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life”, details training, leadership, and how to teach life lessons to bring the most out of each individual through the process of development in their sport. Coach Eddie Reese’s exceptional combined qualities of kindness, humor and effectiveness have elevated him to the status of national treasure. Eddie has a simple formula for success in swimming and life: “Take care of yourself, take care of each other, and the rest will take care of itself.” The audio book includes a new Epilogue with reflections on Coach Reese’s career.

Five-time Head Swim Coach of National Teams at the Olympics Bill Sweetenham said “Eddie Reese, no person a better coach and no coach a better person. This book says it all. A Master class from a true genius in our sporting world.”

Mack Brown, Head Football Coach at the University of North Carolina said, “The lessons in this book are invaluable for anyone interested in becoming a better leader.”

Narrated by: Eddie Reese, Chuck Warner, and Dana Abbott. The audiobook was produced by Emmy-winning SueMedia Productions (NY,NY). Recorded in New York City and Austin, Texas.

The book is available on Blackstone Audio, Audible (Amazon) and www.eddiereesebook.com. 

Winners and losers typically have the same goals but obviously different outcomes. Goals are good but without a system of practiced habits in place, goals alone will not lead to success. It’s not the goals that determine success, systems do. “You will not rise to the level of your goals. You will fall to the level of your systems.

Kubick says of Reese “He is a brilliant human being”, “He’s brilliant at reading people and understanding people. Alcalde says that Reese has a “combination of smarts, intuition, hard work, and a dash of serendipity”.

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Reviews on the book include former Governor Rick Perry, Coach Mack Brown, and NBC Olympic Broadcaster Rowdy Gaines. The first round of sales with a hardcover, color pictures (65 pictures in the interior, 51 colors), with a dust cover is now sold-out. There were 200 “Legacy Editions” available. 

Coach Reese says, “Teaching physical education in the elementary school has more than qualified me to coach college swimming.”

All the proceeds go to the Reese-Kubik Legacy Campaign (men’s swimming and diving endowment) at the University of Texas. 

While Coach Reese has made a lot of wise decisions, the best one was hiring Coach Kubik. I think Coach Reese would agree that Coach Kubik contributed to many of the swimming honors and records listed below. 

Rick Carey said that the only relief he got from the monotony of training is the sarcastic humor of Longhorn coach Eddie Reese Eddie would say to Rick “I said swim slow, that isn’t fast enough to be slow”.

As of 2017 Reese and Kubik’s teams have won an incredible 32 consecutive conference titles.

• Reese has coached 42 individual NCAA champions, 204 All-Americans, and 26 Olympians who have won 29 gold medals.

• In 1992 he was selected as the coach of the men’s swimming team at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

• Coach Reese was voted NCAA Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year eight times: 1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2001.

• Reese is American Swim Coaches’ Association Coach of the year in 1991, 2005, 2006, and 2009.

• He wins the coveted CSCA award in 1991 for the coach who contributes the most to the sport of swimming.

• In 2002 Coach Reese was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and in 1996 joined the Texas Longhorn Hall of Honor.

• In 2002 Coach Reese was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

• In 2011 Coach Kubik was inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor.

Eddie Reese developed the “wheels” method, which involved a swimmer pulling himself up the Ramps at Memorial stadium on a 2 x 4 plank with lawnmower wheels on the back.

This training technique helped the swimming stars in this photo reach the pinnacle of the swimming elite.

Left to Right: World Champion Nick Nevid, American Record Holder Clay Britt, Olympic Champion Steve Lundquist, World Record Holder William Paulus and Greg Hannigan, “Reese Swimmers” in 1984 a weekend of crawling through a two-mile, eighteen inch cave.

To order the book please visit www.eddiereesbook.com .