At some points where it's a lot , a lot of it comes down to technique and stuff , but how much better you're able to have better technique than somewhere next to you in the same lane when you're racing . Some of the challenges I faced . Um , to get to where I am today , some of it's been injuries where I've broken a toe actually on the pool deck , and it's prohibited me from swimming for a while and that was a very important moment in my life because I got , I got the chance to be able to step back from swimming and be able to realize how far I've come and reassess where I want to go in this sport and stuff , and I got to learn from those experiences and stuff and help me grow even further .
I've been doing athletics for the past 15 years , so I'm very much used to juggling both a sport and academics and being able to carve out time easily . Some advice I would give is , it's , it's going to be a hard journey . A lot of people in your life are going to tell you that you might not make it , that a lot of this stuff might not be able to be in reach , but I promise you , if you have the determination and the hope of getting it and the dream too , you can achieve it .
Some of the most important things I focus on in swimming especially is very much technique . There's only so much we're able to grow strength wise and stuff , and sometimes you get to a point where you're just stuck . At some points where it's a lot , a lot of it comes down to technique and stuff , but how much better you're able to have better technique than somewhere next to you in the same lane when you're racing .
Some advice I would give is , it's , it's going to be a hard journey . A lot of people in your life are going to tell you that you might not make it , that a lot of this stuff might not be able to be in reach , but I promise you , if you have the determination and the hope of getting it and the dream too , you can achieve it . A lot of people in your life will say that dream is too far away , that it's not reachable .
Some of the challenges I faced . Um , to get to where I am today , some of it's been injuries where I've broken a toe actually on the pool deck , and it's prohibited me from swimming for a while and that was a very important moment in my life because I got , I got the chance to be able to step back from swimming and be able to realize how far I've come and reassess where I want to go in this sport and stuff , and I got to learn from those experiences and stuff and help me grow even further . So a little story about my recruiting process is , so in swimming after every single meet you would have to send emails out to different schools to different schools to like reach out and start conversations , start getting your foot in the door .
