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Usher Competing for National Titles
The Laramie Boomerang Feature Story
March 25, 2004
By Bob Hammond LARAMIE, Wyo. - When University of Wyoming star breaststroker Scott Usher was a senior at Grand Island (Neb.) High School, he never gave much thought about swimming competitively in college. "I was okay (as a swimmer), but I didn't think I was good enough to swim in college," Usher said while preparing for this weekend's NCAA Swimming Championships at the Nassau County Aquatic Center in East Meadows, N.Y., on Long Island. But a strange and wonderful thing happened to the Cowboy junior All-American. The more he trained, the more his times kept going down. They kept going down until he had his name firmly etched in the Wyoming and Mountain West Conference record books. "It has been a lot of fun," Usher said. "I didn't do a lot of yardage when I was in high school and there weren't a lot of older kids to train with. Things just kind of took off after I came to Wyoming. T.J. (Tom Johnson) is a great coach and he has really helped me. He knows a lot about the breaststroke because it was his stroke in college." As a freshman at UW, Usher developed enough to finish first in 200 breaststroke and fifth in the 100 breast at the MWC Championships. That was only the beginning.
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