Going the extra length

The swim coach of Seguin High School in Arlington, Texas, says you can’t overstate the underachievement of his school’s swim team; he measures success by his athletes not getting disqualified. So when Gerald Hodges – a pretty-good athlete who couldn’t swim – joined up, it was because he couldn’t bear not being good at something. Steve Hartman talked with Hodges about how he was able to measure success in the final lap.