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Eric Shanteau ... swimmer, survivor

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Monday, July 6, 2009

By its nature, swimming can be a solitary sport: You cannot talk your way through a workout if your face is in the water. Swimmers have just one constant companion: the black line on the bottom of the pool. It's the only thing that goes with you every lung-searing stroke of the way. That was the existence Eric Shanteau chose, and he has excelled at it -- at Auburn, where he earned a degree in entrepreneurship and family business, and at Texas Aquatics in Austin, Texas, where he has trained sinc ...

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