Dean Brownley This is Me

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1. 1. The Advocate Messenger -- Serving Danville, Kentucky

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   Published on: 1/31/2003   Last Visited: 1/31/2003

   It was a long way to go, but Centre College swim coach Dean Brownley hopes his team's trip to Florida will pay big dividends the rest of the season.
   
   The Colonels went to St. Petersburg, Fla., over the winter break for eight days of training. It was Centre's first trip to Florida in Brownley's two years as coach, and he said it was an opportunity too good to turn down.
   
   "It's a great opportunity to train over Christmas break," Brownley said. "To be honest, coming back to the normal surroundings of Centre, it just isn't real appealing to the swimmers. Going down there can be very beneficial, primarily because there's nothing to worry about but swimming."
   
   Brownley estimated the swimmers each completed 50,000 meters -- roughly 33.3 miles -- over the eight days of training.
   
   But it wasn't all about work. Senior Aleah Bow said the Colonels had a couple of days in which they had two two-hour practices, while the other days had just one two-hour practice. That left the Centre swimmers plenty of time to enjoy Florida.
   
   "It gave us a chance to hang out as a team and do whatever we wanted to," Bow said.
   
   ...
   Brownley said that since returning, the Colonels have tried to keep that same work ethic for the six weeks left in the conference season.
   
   "We've actually tried to maintain where we were in St. Pete with the exception of not doing quite as much yardage," Brownley said. "We are working more on speed stuff. We've got three more weeks of still getting decent yardage in.
   
   "Then, when we're about three weeks out, we'll start to work on tapering. We'll put in more quality, high-rest swimming and start to really get our bodies ready for the championships."
   
   ...
   Brownley had made the trip before, when he was the head coach at Campbellsville, and found St. Petersburg to be a prime location for recruiting.
   
   He and St. Pete coach Fred Lewis knew each other from Brownley's time at Campbellsville. Brownley said he thinks reconnecting with Lewis will help Centre in its recruiting efforts.
   
   "Two of the three swimmers I got from there were All-American for me at Campbellsville," Brownley said. "It won't help us this year, but in the future, some people coming up will definitely be looking out for us.
   ...
   "We spent the majority of New Year's Day together doing some things, playing frisbee, just doing different fun things," Brownley said. "That grew some unity within the team."
   
   "I didn't really expect anything or know what to expect," Bow said. "I feel like we definitely bonded together and got to know one another because we were with each other for a whole week."
   
   This story ran in The Advocate Messenger on Jan. 14.

2. 2. The Advocate Messenger -- Serving Danville, Kentucky

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   Published on: 1/20/2003   Last Visited: 1/20/2003

   It was a long way to go, but Centre College swim coach Dean Brownley hopes his team's trip to Florida will pay big dividends the rest of the season.
   
   The Colonels went to St. Petersburg, Fla., over the winter break for eight days of training. It was Centre's first trip to Florida in Brownley's two years as coach, and he said it was an opportunity too good to turn down.
   
   "It's a great opportunity to train over Christmas break," Brownley said. "To be honest, coming back to the normal surroundings of Centre, it just isn't real appealing to the swimmers. Going down there can be very beneficial, primarily because there's nothing to worry about but swimming."
   
   Brownley estimated the swimmers each completed 50,000 meters -- roughly 33.3 miles -- over the eight days of training.
   
   But it wasn't all about work. Senior Aleah Bow said the Colonels had a couple of days in which they had two two-hour practices, while the other days had just one two-hour practice. That left the Centre swimmers plenty of time to enjoy Florida.
   
   "It gave us a chance to hang out as a team and do whatever we wanted to," Bow said.
   
   ...
   Brownley said that since returning, the Colonels have tried to keep that same work ethic for the six weeks left in the conference season.
   
   "We've actually tried to maintain where we were in St. Pete with the exception of not doing quite as much yardage," Brownley said. "We are working more on speed stuff. We've got three more weeks of still getting decent yardage in.
   
   "Then, when we're about three weeks out, we'll start to work on tapering. We'll put in more quality, high-rest swimming and start to really get our bodies ready for the championships."
   
   ...
   Brownley had made the trip before, when he was the head coach at Campbellsville, and found St. Petersburg to be a prime location for recruiting.
   
   He and St. Pete coach Fred Lewis knew each other from Brownley's time at Campbellsville. Brownley said he thinks reconnecting with Lewis will help Centre in its recruiting efforts.
   
   "Two of the three swimmers I got from there were All-American for me at Campbellsville," Brownley said. "It won't help us this year, but in the future, some people coming up will definitely be looking out for us.
   ...
   "We spent the majority of New Year's Day together doing some things, playing frisbee, just doing different fun things," Brownley said. "That grew some unity within the team."
   
   "I didn't really expect anything or know what to expect," Bow said. "I feel like we definitely bonded together and got to know one another because we were with each other for a whole week."
   
   This story ran in The Advocate Messenger on Jan. 14.

3. 3. Danville Advocate-Messenger

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   Published on: 12/7/2001   Last Visited: 12/7/2001

   Frank Crossman of Boyle County, Jamie Doctor of McDowell Marlins USA Swimming and Dean Brownley of Centre College think they are well on their way.
   ...
   Brownley coached Campbellsville
   
   Brownley spent eight years as the swimming and soccer coach at Campbellsville University before becoming a volunteer assistant at his alma mater, Louisville, last year under his former coach, Rick Hill.
   
   A chance encounter with former Centre soccer player Chris Priddy, whom Brownley had recruited for the Tigers, led to the coach making a change.
   ...
   "I got to know him through the recruiting process and I was working at a soccer store when Chris came in," Brownley said.
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   Centre is 3-1 under Brownley, and he said the future of the Colonels' program looks bright.
   
   "I couldn't ask for more out of a team than what this team is giving me. Maybe we're not the most talented team I've ever coached or that we'll come up against, but I'll put our work ethic against anyone and everyone," he said. "I'm really very happy with not only our results, but with how hard we've been working. I think at the end of the year, we will really reap the benefits.
   
   "Early indications of recruiting look awful good for us. I have to really do a good job selling not only the school but sell them on the future of Centre swimming, which I feel is very, very bright at this point."