{"id":12115,"date":"2023-06-12T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:30:28","slug":"time-of-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=12115","title":{"rendered":"Time of his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">James McChesney \u201924 touched the final wall of his 200-meter freestyle swim and popped his head out of the water to see the scoreboard. His time: 1:34:74.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fast enough to be the Division III NCAA national champ. Fast enough to break an NCAA record. And fast enough to be the first DIII male swimmer to crack 1:35 in the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI looked up at my time and had to double check it,\u201d says McChesney. \u201cLike, is that real? It was my fastest swim by almost 2 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">McChesney\u2019s win at the NCAA National Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, in March was TCNJ swimming\u2019s first individual NCAA title since 2006, when Steve Swenson \u201906 took home the gold in the 100-meter breaststroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cJames never steps behind the starting block bearing the pressure of the moment,\u201d says David Dow, head coach. \u201cHe relishes the opportunity to see what he can achieve and embraces the fun that comes with racing other high-level swimmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Picture: John Emerson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimmer wins gold at NCAAs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":12116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12408,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions\/12408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}