Just keep swimming

I love swimming! I mean, who doesn't love swimming back and forth in a rectangle for two hours a day. It must be wonderful to me since I get to do this seven to eight times any given week.

Sweet Briar's swim team was the deciding factor in choosing this college. In fact, it was the only college I applied to my senior year.

I have been swimming since I was four years old and my mom put me in swim lessons. Not to brag, but I was swimming with the older kids in just a few weeks! In fourth grade, I joined my first competitive swim team for Dundalk-Eastfield Swim Club in Baltimore, MD. This is also where Paralympian gold-medalist Jessica Long swam. (I got to see one of her gold medals from Athens!!) After moving to Madison Heights in sixth grade, I did not start swimming again until my freshmen year of high school. I realized at that point how much I had missed the sport in those short three years.

Even though some days I dread the workouts to come, I know that they can only make me better. My love for swimming is probably the only reason I will get up and come to 6am practice. I don't have the skills to play any other sports, but thankfully I found swimming. It keeps me active and motivated. And there's always dinner afterwards to look forward to...