So , uh , I was swimming under my club , but the , the Badgers swim team was kind of there cheering for me because I , I was committed at the time so that was super fun and um kind of getting that time in my future home pool was that was really cool . So the Olympic trials was , that was the craziest meet I've ever been to . I mean they put a pool in Lucas Oil Stadium and I mean everywhere you would go you would see someone that had been an Olympian , someone that was a national team member .
Uh , refining the fine details of my stroke has , has really been helpful kind of early on when I started swimming , I , I was good , but I , I wasn't like at the top necessarily and then , um , kind of COVID hit and then I , I stopped swimming for a little bit and I , I took a little break , but then when I started swimming again I really like fell back in love with the sport and I , um , I really worked really , really hard and . And I started seeing times that I was like yeah man like these this is realistic like I could go to trials I could win uh win state and national level meets so um just uh keep working day in and day out like that was something that I just had to stick to and trust the process with Olympic trials , the way that it goes is there's time standards . And then , um , the time standards are obviously really fast .
So the Olympic trials was , that was the craziest meet I've ever been to . I mean they put a pool in Lucas Oil Stadium and I mean everywhere you would go you would see someone that had been an Olympian , someone that was a national team member . You could jump in the warm up pool with literally anyone you wanted to or see anyone you wanted to , and for me that was the coolest , coolest experience experience because .
I think only . 80 or so guys in the country uh qualified for the 100 breaststroke , which is what I qualified for , so that was , that was pretty cool and actually I qualified for the meet at the pool here in Madison . So , uh , I was swimming under my club , but the , the Badgers swim team was kind of there cheering for me because I , I was committed at the time so that was super fun and um kind of getting that time in my future home pool was that was really cool .
Yeah , some of the things I've really been focusing on is , um , just the tech technical things , um . And then just competing in practice with the guys , um , I think it's something huge being here at Madison with uh experiencing new teammates and being able to push each other super hard . um I mean we're spending 20 plus hours a week together and being able to have someone to train with and push you constantly it's uh that's super nice and and then just working with the coaches on tech technical stuff and um .
