Um , you know , I don't , we do have a nutritionist , but I don't really see the nutritionist , but I've just , you know , been able to find things that work for me , find things that make me feel good , feel light in the water , and then I now do the ice baths , contrast baths . I go to the trainer just to keep my body ready in shape for whatever I need to do . So this is , this is something that I learned over the year balancing academics and athletics at one point .
I actually committed to the school , La Salle back in 2020 , and I came in as a as a walk on , you know , I had a , had a friend put in a good word for me , so basically it was just handed to me , but you know , I wasn't that great of a swimmer and I really just came into my own my sophomore year of college . Um , and that was taking my training seriously . That's what led me to do that .
So when I found out that we had that availability to go , go somewhere and be in tip top shape all the time , as I mean relatively speaking , as best as you could be at that moment , that was something that I really picked up is the little things outside of the pool that I could be doing to help supplement my training . So when I was younger , I never really focused on recovery , nor really nutrition or anything like that , like when I was in high school , but when Now , especially now that I'm a 5th year senior , um , I definitely feel the training takes a bigger toll on my body , so I never really was one to do the ice baths nor the hot tub or go to the trainers and everything like that , nor really take care of my nutrition , but that's something that I really honed in . Um , you know , I don't , we do have a nutritionist , but I don't really see the nutritionist , but I've just , you know , been able to find things that work for me , find things that make me feel good , feel light in the water , and then I now do the ice baths , contrast baths .
Like it's all , it's all provided to you . So when I found out that we had that availability to go , go somewhere and be in tip top shape all the time , as I mean relatively speaking , as best as you could be at that moment , that was something that I really picked up is the little things outside of the pool that I could be doing to help supplement my training . So when I was younger , I never really focused on recovery , nor really nutrition or anything like that , like when I was in high school , but when Now , especially now that I'm a 5th year senior , um , I definitely feel the training takes a bigger toll on my body , so I never really was one to do the ice baths nor the hot tub or go to the trainers and everything like that , nor really take care of my nutrition , but that's something that I really honed in .
I've come back from , you know , hardships and , you know , I've been able to be that fiery person still and , you know , try to lead by example , try to come back and , you know , I think , I think people respond to that . um you know , I have taken a couple , you know , Teammates under my wing showed them like what I do , my prep , everything like that , and I've , I've seen kids become teammates become , you know , successful in what they do and even as like outside of the pool when I'm doing coaching , you know , I think it's , you know , I like to pride myself on my accomplishments and , you know , it helps , it helps people listen , you know , there's this team that I coach locally . And you know they , they seem to respond to what I , what I say , what I tell them , and they buy in and and I think that's the most rewarding thing as a as a coach and someone who's nearing the end of their collegiate career .
