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By Nikki Cannon,\u00a0Swimming World Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps you are gearing up for another season off at school, maybe you\u2019ve hung up your suit and goggles long ago, or possibly you are just entering the world of college swimming as you brace yourself for the recruiting process.\u00a0 Regardless, if you ever have been a collegiate swimmer you recognize the importance and significance of the relationship with your coach.<\/p>\n

From the start of your college search, your coach is calling you, making sure you\u2019re a good fit, and then they continue to see you through your entire career, through good times and bad.\u00a0 I write a lot about college swimming, or how swimming in college has affected my life, and that is because my years spent as a Bronco were simultaneously some of the most rewarding and challenging \u00a0situations that I\u2019ve experienced.<\/p>\n

Upon hearing that my former coach, Kristin Hill<\/strong>, was resigning from Boise State,<\/a> I started to reflect on ways I could incorporate what she has taught me into an article.\u00a0 It would be easy for me to sit here and write about lessons that we hear all the time, \u201cPersevere and success is yours\u201d or, \u201cAlways try your best.\u201d Both are true, and Kristin did <\/em>teach me these things, but what I truly value about our relationship are lessons that were generated that don\u2019t have an easy tag line or a short synopsis.<\/p>\n

This article is not a list on what to do, or things I learned that you might want to consider; but rather an honest reflection (so bear with me).<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher\/USA Today Sports Images<\/p><\/div>\n

I entered my freshmen year of college, big eyed and in awe, like most of us do.\u00a0 That year Boise State went on to win the Mountain West Conference Championship in quite the dramatic fashion.\u00a0 It was like a movie.\u00a0 Every race was tic for tack with San Diego State and it ultimately came down to the last relay, then victory was ours.<\/p>\n

But my sophomore year, despite great training by the team, despite having one of our best dual meet seasons ever, we lost.\u00a0 I just could not understand it.\u00a0 What had gone so wrong?\u00a0 How did we do everything so right and yet fail? But Kristin moved forward.<\/p>\n

I learned that sometimes, you do everything right, and sometimes, it just doesn\u2019t go your way.\u00a0 You can be the most prepared, mentally, physically, emotionally, you name it, and sometimes the cards just are not in your favor.\u00a0 To mope and relive every decision made and what could have gone differently, does nothing.\u00a0 That\u2019s not to say you should just throw up your hands and claim no responsibility when you do not succeed. But to think that just because you\u2019re a hard worker, or you tried your best that success is imminent is na\u00efve.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Arizona Republic-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

Kristin also taught being grateful, even if you feel that you don\u2019t have much to be thankful for. \u00a0During my first collegiate Thanksgiving, we were sitting in an airport and randomly pulled a teammate’s name from a hat.\u00a0 We were given a few moments to write about how we were thankful for them as friends and teammates.\u00a0 I remember some of us pulling names that maybe we didn\u2019t closely connect with. It didn\u2019t matter– there was good to be seen.<\/p>\n

In the midst of the hardest training sessions, we were reminded how lucky we were to be given an opportunity to train and swim.\u00a0 We used our facilities to the absolute best ability we could.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to want more.\u00a0 It\u2019s even easier to wonder how you could be faster, or be happier, or a be a better person even if you had more.<\/p>\n

Kristin showed us that it\u2019s not only being content for the pool you have, the teammates you swim with, the moments that you are truly struggling with, but finding thankfulness for that difficulty.\u00a0 She once told me that in order to be a great swimmer that you have to find \u201cjoy in the struggle.\u201d\u00a0 At the time, I found that was truly the most borderline insane thing you could say, but it\u2019s true.\u00a0 Because, you don\u2019t always have everything, and as previously discussed, things don\u2019t always go your way.\u00a0 But can you be thankful for those moments?<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher\/USA Today Sports Images<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, in a quite difficult manner, Kristin taught me to not take things too personally.\u00a0 Last summer (the summer before my junior year), was a tumultuous time.\u00a0 I was angry about the amount of training we were doing, and quite frankly, a miserable swimmer for a coach to deal with.\u00a0 Although I would do the workouts, I did them quite begrudgingly and always with a hint of attitude.<\/p>\n

It was upsetting for my coaches and teammates, as I was almost always a very positive swimmer.\u00a0 Finally, Kristin had a heart to heart with me.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is going on with you?\u201d she asked in an equally exasperated and concerned tone of voice.\u00a0 We hashed it out and it was not necessarily pretty.\u00a0 I walked away from the conversation with strong feelings of anger and a sense that things would not be the same between the two of us.<\/p>\n

I was sorely wrong.\u00a0 As I got over (my awkwardly) angsty stage, I saw that I had taken the whole experience quite personally.\u00a0 Kristin was being unfair to me<\/em>, I had thought.\u00a0 Why doesn\u2019t she see what\u2019s going on in my <\/em>life? The fact of the matter is, in swimming as in life, everything is not<\/em> about you.<\/p>\n

I had forgotten my greater sense of purpose, and instead only saw how actions, events and emotions affected myself.\u00a0 Once we see that everything is not about ourselves, we can better understand how our actions and attitudes need to make a positive impact for the betterment of the whole group.<\/p>\n

So there are my ramblings.\u00a0 I hope that you found it somewhat helpful and made you reflect on the lessons you\u2019ve encountered in your life.\u00a0 Whether or not you personally identified with these specific instances, I challenge us all to grow in moments that are difficult and appreciate those coaches who push our boundaries.\u00a0 It\u2019s often the only way we truly evolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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