001keep sing all right Wildcats it's Friday we're going to have some fun today we're in the pool everybody's favorite spot at West Chicago high school and look who I Came Upon three time not one time not two time but three time state champion Brady Johnson how you doing today congratulations on your recent success in thank you I'm doing good I'm excited to be here is it your first time on Friday Funday this is my first time on Friday Funday I've watched it all right so we got a big fan here on Friday Funday we want to get to know you a little bit so congratulations on the three state titles you won one last year as a junior two this year a senior did you ever think you would want let alone repeat win three
002was that even in your Realm Of Consciousness so obviously the goal is to win you don't want to win and just stop we constantly want to keep improving so the goal this year was to get the state records not just get the win thankfully we broke both of them and I couldn't be more happy when you were a kid did you think that this was possible you think someday I'm going to be a stay champ or was the goal just hey I want to swim and have some fun so when I was seven I started in this pool and I look up at that record board and I just saw all those fast times I was like oh I want to be one of them so it's no sec swimming is a grueling sport tough
003how many hours a day do you swim so I swim anywhere from 2 hours to 4 hours a day on weekends you know I'll spend 6 hours at the pool and then I'll be lifting for 2 hours afterwards so long sessions almost all the time why do swimmers dye their hair we dye our hair this dates back to before my parents even went to high school it's just a tradition you know other sports do it I see hockey players do it all the time you know it's just a fun time right before our Championship season where the whole team gets together and we just want to do something crazy you know good team bonding activity how tall are you 6'4 and how much do you weigh I'm 210 lb wow so you're like the size
004of like a small dolphin swimmers are notorious for their appetite take me through like the day of a big race what do you eat so in the morning I'm stacking up as much protein as possible eggs sausage bacon all that and then right before my race I will usually have some type of sugar so any sort of electrolyte drink Gatorade all that Donuts so after a race You've Won obviously you're able to celebrate what do you have to eat to celebrate afterwards so after a big competition you know we've been resting for 2 weeks eating healthy so we'll go all out crazy we usually go some pizza joint Burger Joint anything that we can stuff our faces with we we get to it so you can eat a whole pizza in one city oh yeah
005done done before so join swimming you can eat pizza as much as you want all right so swimmers have to have that race mentality right before they go usually like playlist music what's the song that gets you going number one song I listen to before every race is command by Kesha getting so next year you're going to Arizona State University congratulations as you're getting ready to leave West Chicago to graduate in just about 8 weeks anything that you're like left undone or have you accomplished everything is there anything that you still want to do you know if I could choose anything it'd probably be to have one last race in this pool this pool right here have you ever raced a 45-year-old man I haven't no well you're about to all right wild cats we're
006almost ready to race have you ever raced anybody in a swim shirt before I don't think so this is my first time okay we'll see if it increases my drag at all you know I haven't swam in a little while so if you don't mind give me a little bit of a head start I get 25 M Head Start we'll do a 50 down and back you think you can beat me totally we'll [Music] see take your Mar when you want to give up try again keep on swimming keep on swimming when you want to give up try again keep on swimming keep on [Music] swiming [Music] good [Applause] job all right wild cats don't let anybody tell you that swimming is easy my goggles fell off I'm going dive in otherwise I think I
007would have won great race Brady good job thank you thank you here's your participation award thank you thank you I earned this I earned this and I feel like I deserve it Friday March 15th 2024 raced Brady today did good almost beat him next time is my time all right wild cats hope you had some fun today dive into the weekend think you can do better Cannonball than me I think I can no way [Music]