Sydney Pickrem qualified for the Canadian Olympic Team with a big best time in the 200 IM. She had a dynamite split on the breaststroke leg, but paradoxically, it wasn't really the breaststroke improvements that made that happen.
Holmes has led the men's program since 2004 and has been at Texas A&M for 40 years. Holmes will still coach for another month through US Olympic Trials.
MacNeil is hoping Swimming Canada will make the same exception it made for Brent Arckey, Summer McIntosh's American coach, at last year's World Championships.