I had a goal this year, to make the NCAA (Championship). I was training for that aspect; that was my motivation.

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It opened my eyes to the real world of swimming. It let me compete against people around the world. With my club team I was just continuously racing against the same people.

145

Sometimes there's a fight here and there because a girl beats a guy, a guy will go off on a girl. Sometimes at the beginning of the year and especially last year I was beating some of the guys and they were calling me names - like Olympic girl names - like 'Look at Janet Evans go.' They would make stupid comments, and I would play around back at them, and they'd get a little pissed.

143

We usually do a lot better in the Big East competitions. That's where we show who we are.

112

Coach always puts us in the same lane. We train together and we've become better friends. We always hang out. Even though he's a guy, I look up to him because he's a badass swimmer.

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