{"id":119583,"date":"2015-01-13T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=119583"},"modified":"2015-01-13T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:56:20","slug":"sister-sister-rachel-kathleen-bakers-unbreakable-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sister-sister-rachel-kathleen-bakers-unbreakable-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister, Sister: Rachel &#038; Kathleen Baker&#8217;s Unbreakable Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Nelson Helm, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Start of Something Special<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two years, four months, 19 days, eight hours and eight minutes. No, this isn\u2019t the countdown to the 2016 Olympics in Rio. It\u2019s all that separates two sisters who share a sport but have taken different paths.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Baker, a sophomore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, is the first child of Norris and Kimberley Baker. Rachel was born in 1994, two years, four months, 19 days, eight hours and eight minutes before her more famous sister, Kathleen Baker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Kathleen] always says \u2018It\u2019s not fair, I have never lived without you,&#8217;\u201d Rachel said. \u201cBut I have lived that long without her!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The path to swimming for the two sisters is similar to how most siblings begin sports: the older child begins a sport and the younger child follows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel started swimming before me and I just wanted to do what she was doing,\u201d Kathleen said.<\/p>\n<p>But paths began to diverge for the two sisters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was automatically better than me,\u201d Rachel said laughing.<\/p>\n<p>After the two sisters began swimming year round for Star Aquatics, the two sisters began to spend more time with each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKathleen and I spent every second of every day together,\u201d Rachel said. \u201cWe had the same swim friends, which was fun. I would also drive her to and from school and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Kathleen\u2019s swim career began taking off, Rachel found it hard because \u201cpeople forgot that I [also] swam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in summer league meets, they would say \u2018Oh my God, you\u2019re Kathleen Baker\u2019s sister?!\u2019\u201d Rachel said. \u201cI\u2019ve grown out of it though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel and Kathleen\u2019s relationship, however, did not change as the two sisters\u2019 swimming careers did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwimming brings families pretty close,\u201d Kathleen said. \u201cWe would wake up Saturday mornings and drive together [to the swim meet] and would stay in one room. Our dinner table conversations would be about swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dinner table conversations didn\u2019t stop when Kathleen moved to Charlotte to train with SwimMac or when Rachel began college. Rachel said that Kathleen calls her \u201cat least once a day\u201d and talks to her about swimming, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can understand what she is going through,\u201d Rachel said. \u201cShe will call and tell me what she is holding [at practice] and I can sympathize and empathize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Summer to Remember<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Rachel\u2019s first year at college came to a close, the sisters\u2019 paths diverged once again. Rachel was to spend her summer at Camp Greystone in the rural mountains of North Carolina, away from the rest of the Baker clan.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the job description for Rachel was to be off the grid for weeks on end.<\/p>\n<p>As her sister began competing at Nationals in Irvine, California, Rachel was unable to keep up with how the youngest Baker was doing. When Kathleen touched second in the 200 backstroke behind soon-to-be training partner Missy Franklin, Rachel was unaware.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until the next day, when she was able to access her phone, did she see a text from her mom saying \u2018We are going to Australia!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started crying,\u201d Rachel said. \u201cI called [Kathleen] crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel \u201cunderstood how much it meant to me,\u201d Kathleen said.<\/p>\n<p>Big sister, however, was not surprised that Kathleen had made the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, it was the normal,\u201d she said. \u201cKathleen would say, \u2018I am going to win eight Olympic gold medals like Michael Phelps.\u2019 I always believed she could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the summer weeks came to a close, the Baker family all traveled to Gold Coast, Australia to watch Kathleen compete against the world\u2019s best. Rachel said that she got more nervous for her sister\u2019s races than her own because she knows how much \u201cis on the line for her and how much she cares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching her at [Olympic] Trials or Pan Pacs, they are just such a big meets,\u201d Rachel said. \u201cI can put myself in her shoes and understand how nervous she is or could be. I just want her to do well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen enjoyed having her family at the meet because she was able to see them after her races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are done with racing, you can go in the stands and see your family,\u201d she said. \u201cNot everyone has that. It means a lot that they came to watch me, especially Rachel, because it was her last couple of weeks of summer and she spent it at a rainy swim meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"119606\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sister-sister-rachel-kathleen-bakers-unbreakable-bond\/image5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image5.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"baker-family.jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Baker Family&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image5-700x500.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image5.jpeg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119606\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image5-700x500.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo Courtesy: Baker Family\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Always There<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it came time for Kathleen to make a college decision, Rachel was right there for every step of the way. Coaches would come to the Baker\u2019s apartment in Charlotte and the older Baker would be right in the room with her, listening to everything that they had to say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe called me one night [while I was at school] and said \u2018Rachel, can\u2019t you just do it for me?\u2019 It was one in the morning and I was in bed, but I still answered,\u201d Rachel said.<\/p>\n<p>Both sisters defined themselves as the other&#8217;s \u201cbest friend.\u201d Rachel \u201cwill always be there to answer calls at one in the morning,\u201d Kathleen said. But, Rachel and Kathleen both agree they are polar opposites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a lot more competitive,\u201d Kathleen said. \u201cI am used to racing. Even if it was pushing the elevator button first, I had to win. Rach is more laid back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Baker sisters found areas where the other sister excelled in personality-wise that they brought in to their own. For Rachel, it was Kathleen\u2019s toughness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has overcome, and continues to overcome, so much on an everyday basis,\u201d Rachel said. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t let anything derail her from her dreams and I really respect that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen felt that Rachel\u2019s kind and supportive personality provided the younger sister with comfort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe would defend an ax murderer,\u201d Kathleen said. \u201cShe has always been that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, for the sisters who will both swim collegiately next year, Rachel never wanted to be defined by swimming, while Kathleen did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwimming means very different things to the both of us,\u201d Rachel said. \u201cSwimming for her is her life\u2014she has given things up for it. Swimming for me is an outlet. But it is what connects us. We both have gotten so much out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nelson Helm, Swimming World College Intern The Start of Something Special Two years, four months, 19 days, eight hours and eight minutes. 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