Watch Hard Knocks. See the stuff coaches tell their players in the locker room. Drowning comment is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of verbal abuse. Or join the military and hear the drill sergeants.

So if the story is that she was a wreck before and now she is good, it doesn’t make sense to credit a person introduced into the situation? Would she really have turned herself around in terms of swimming if hothead was not her coach?

Whether it is “equally” unlikely is the bigger question? When a man succeeds, a woman is supporting his ambitions and promoting a drive. When a woman succeeds, the man is hardly crucial and she always had the potential in her, “with or without” him. (Rolleyes)

Ha. No women would have said crap if a dude just broke a record and the coach, nice or hotheaded, was given credit. The road goes both ways.