“Michael Phelps” – the crowd roars.“Missy Franklin” – the crowd screams.“Ryan Lochte” – the crowd explodes.“Claire Donahue” – a mustached man in a red shirt erupts.The first three give you a sense of the atmosphere the Century Link Center produces. The last one gives you a sense of what this place and this meet means.“If I have a lane, I have a chance.”That line is cliché by now, so let’s change it a bit.“If I have a team, I have a chance.”Claire Donahue made the team. Claire Donahue had a team. Western Kentucky is not the name one traditionally thinks of as a farm team for the Olympic movement. You want those, you want a Michigan, a Stanford, a California (northern or Southern) or, of course, a Florida.At least that’s what people tell you, but in this case they’d probably have been wrong. Instead the shy girl from Lenoir City, Tennessee opted to stay close to home why?“It was the right fit for her,” explains Bruce Marchionda.Fit is what got Claire Donahue a ticket to London. Not the best facilities, not the biggest coaching names, not the biggest conference or scholarship, but fit. The right fit allowed her to find a place where she could develop. Let’s remember this is not a woman who made NCAA’s as a freshman. She did as a sophomore and finished 23rd in the suit-enhanced championships. Fourth as a junior and runner-up as a senior. Donahue and Marchionda did something so few swimmers do throughout their four years – they got faster. Why?Fit.There are 672 college swimming programs out there. That’s more than there were in 2008 but fewer than there were in 2004. They can’t all be Stanford but as the Grinnell’s, St. Olaf’s, and UW-Milwaukee’s of the world have shown you can get someone to this meet and maybe more. That’s not something the UCLA men, Maryland, Syracuse or even Marchionda’s last stop, Clemson, can say because they don’t have teams anymore.But if you have a team, you have a chance.