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EDDIE REESE: Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life
Welcome! Celebrate the joy and compassion of Eddie Reese. Discover new insights into his genius and the success of the sports world's greatest dynasty. Immerse yourself in this chronicle of his life and feel the magic.
Book Reviews
Rick Barnes, Basketball Coach #1 Ranked U Tennessee
I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it, He's a master of his craft. He works his sport better than anybody I've ever seen. He understands it. He gets it. He understands how it all comes together — mind and body. And he understands competition, what second is, and what it takes to be first.
Mack Brown, Football Coach U North Carolina, 2005 National Champions at Texas
Coach Eddie Reese is a legend in the coaching world and an icon at the University of Texas. He became a great friend to me during our time together at UT and he represents the best of what it means to be a coach and mentor. The lessons recounted in this book are invaluable for anyone interested in become a better leader.
Aaron Peirsol, 5-Time Olympic Gold Medalist & World Record Holder
An emotional and educational read. Although I swam for Eddie for eight years, I still learned more about him from reading this book.
John Leonard, Executive Director American Swim Coaches Association
This is a brilliant read…..insightful, warm, funny and filled with meaning…just like Coach Reese himself.
Don Heidary, President American Swim Coaches Association
There are few times in a life when one is humbled by an exhibition of life and of its depiction. This is one. This book is a must read, not simply for those in the aquatic world, but for every human being searching for a compass in life and a value system that breeds irrefutable respect and unparalleled success. This is the living example. While this story is powerful and inspiring, its presentation is equally so. Chuck Warner is the preeminent author in the world of swimming and masterfully intertwines the extraordinary success of Coach Reese with the powerful virtues that laid the groundwork for that success.
Bill Sweetenham, Head National Team Coach at five Olympic Games, coached nine world record holders.
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.
Audio Book Production
Produced at Radio Waves Studios, New York City
Book Types
The PERFECT Holiday Gifts!
HARD COVER
$59.95 USD
Hard Cover available with full color interior (65 pictures, 51 of which are color). The authors will donate a significant portion of the proceeds to The University of Texas Eddie Reese & Kris Kubik Men's Swimming & Diving Legacy Campaign.
SOFTCOVER
$22.95 USD
Color soft cover. Sixty-five interior pictures are black and white. The authors will donate a significant portion of the proceeds of each copy to The University of Texas Eddie Reese & Kris Kubik Men's Swimming & Diving Legacy Campaign.
Audio Book
$14.95 USD
Audio Book available December 8, 2023. Read by the authors and Eddie Reese. Features new epilogue by Eddie Reese reflecting on his storied career.
The Authors
Both authors were on Coach Reese's first coaching staff at Texas in 1978. They were there, each day, in the initial years of transformation of a "regional" program into one of sport's greatest dynasties ever. For each one, the experience was a "fork-in-the-road" of life, just as the Texas Swimming experience under Coach Reese has been for so many young men.
Chuck Warner
This is the third book that Chuck Warner has authored. The first two (Four Champions, One Gold Medal and ...And Then They Won Gold) have been highly acclaimed and continue to be popular reads. As a coach, Warner's swimmers achieved success at the highest level of the sport and his teams won national titles. He is a 3-time USA national team coach. He has served as past president of the American Swimming Coaches Association & on the Board of Directors for the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Dana Abbott
Dana Abbott swam at Tulane University and coached in Mississippi and Alabama before starting grad school at Texas. After working 1978-80 with Eddie Reese, was head coach at Katy (TX) High School for 25 years, and 15 more years in Katy at St. John XXIII College Preparatory. He has been a speaker/clinician locally, nationally, and internationally, president of TISCA and twice president of NISCA. Has previously worked with Chuck Warner on "And Then They Won Gold" and several magazine articles.
Photographers
We are very grateful to have the contributions of multiple photographers including Peter Bick (long-time premiere photographer for Swimming World Magazine), Andy Ringgold, Texas Sports, and Taylor Brien.