MUNCIE — Standing along the side of the pool, Laura Seibold-Caudill points to the water, smiling.
It's the middle of the boys 100 backstroke and there's a pack of swimmers near the starting blocks. That's not who the Delta coach is looking at, however. She's got her eyes nearly a full pool-length ahead. That's where one swimmer — whose work ethic Seibold-Caudill compares to that of Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder Lilly King — is cruising to another victory during a tri-meet against Burris and Fort Recovery in mid-January.
That swimmer is Delta junior Brady Samuels, who would go on to win the race with a time of 54:01, fast enough to break a 23-year-old pool record by a full second.