| Dave Williams |
 Dave Williams returns to the team as co-title sponsor. We are thrilled to have him on board again this year as both an athlete and team sponsor. Along with running a busy coaching business and just finishing up his MBA, Dave also trains many of the TMS-IOS team members.
Dave manages to impress us at every race, despite his limited training time. Have you ever seen this guy swim? And he'll tell you he doesn't have time to the hit the water much. Woe to every competitor if he did!
Imagine being "out of shape" and too busy to train and still making it to Kona or Olympic Distance Tri Worlds year after year! We again look forward to his likely podium performances throughout the season in the NCTS, and at Tri Nationals and Tri Worlds later this summer. |
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I know that you’ve all been anxiously awaiting my bio with baited breath, so here it is.
When I was 8 years old my parents decided that it would be a good idea if I learned how to swim after I got pulled under at the beach and not thinking I was coming back up. I loved to swim, but my first swim coach said something that has pretty much summed up my life ever since. He told my parents that “Christy (my sister) has a ton of talent, Don (my brother) is also extremely talented and strong, and Dave . . . well he works really hard”. I made as much as I could with that, though, and the highlight of my swimming career came when I won the state championship for 9-10 year olds by breaking 30-seconds in the 50 fly. I wonder if I can even do that now! I did continue to swim and was better than average but never great. I was on a couple of state winning relays in high school and swam DII in college earning an All-American in the 200 fly and a relay, but was probably known more for my nerdy academic side than as an athlete. By the way, I did this growing up in a suburb of Pittsburgh so I’m psyched to see the other Steeler fans out there!! We need to get together to catch a game!
As for triathlons, I did my first one with some friends from swimming when I was 15 as cross-training. I LOVED it and won my age group. Always looking for the next big challenge, I have done at least one every year since. As an example of my psyche, when I was 15 I saw the Ironman on TV and read an article that claimed that the human body wasn’t truly prepared for the rigors of the Ironman until the age of 24, so I told everybody that I was going to do my first Ironman at 24. I lived up to my promise. While I really wanted to train for triathlons growing up, I couldn’t until after college because of swimming commitments.
I moved to NC after graduation and decided to train a little bit. It was fun and I made some steady progress. In 2003, I wanted to have a good year and turn pro afterwards. I was right on track with where I wanted to be, but then got some weird, bad, nagging injuries that hampered my hips before Olympic distance worlds and Hawaii so badly that I had trouble walking. Turns out I have really bad osteoporosis, probably from swimming my whole life without any weight bearing activity to counter it. I did Hawaii, but did so much damage that it took about 7 months before I could jog again without pain. So, I dug myself into working and coaching. I consider myself more of a coach than an athlete now and do triathlons solely for fun and camaraderie. I’ve had my coaching business since 2000 and have loved every minute of it. The story there is that I moved here to get a PhD in physical chemistry. After 2 ½ years and getting through all of the classes, I was doing boring research and realized that I was miserable with what I was doing. So, I started Triangle Multisport and switched to get my masters in exercise physiology. Best decision ever! I just graduated last May with my MBA and hope to greatly expand the business and give back to the community.
I look forward to getting to know everyone on the team better and having a fun year!
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