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By Sophia Chiang, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

I could never bring myself to quit swimming. A week ago, I began my freshman year at university: a time I had once promised myself would be less dedicated to swimming and more to academics, career furthering, and that vaguely promising specter known as a \u201csocial life\u201d that I had always envied non-swimmers for.<\/p>\n

But even after more than a decade dedicated to a sport that at times seems like I\u2019ve given my entire childhood to, I could never stop.<\/p>\n

You can often find me saying that swimming is the worst sport on the planet. At times, it is. It is when you wake up at 4 a.m. to January blizzards, and have to dig your car out of your driveway to drop your body into a vat of cold water by 5 a.m. It is when your coach assigns sets of 10 200s fly at the end of your second practice of the day, after a fight with your parents, after you failed your math exam that morning, after you just felt sick all day.<\/p>\n

But then, there\u2019s those times when you\u2019re flying. Literally– when you feel that spurt of energy coming and crash full force into that final wall, look up, and see you\u2019ve hit a best time. When you realize those people you swim with everyday have become your family, and those gruesome IM or distance free sets that your coach handed out have become the glue that binds you all.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not always happy per se, but rather swimming and all of the experiences and lessons\u00a0it brings with it gives you that warm feeling inside that you can pinpoint as contentment.<\/p>\n

No, not contentment with your times.<\/p>\n

But contentment with who you are.<\/p>\n

Because between all those doubles sessions, heinous dry land workouts, and mind-numbingly-long age group meets, you discover that somehow, swimming has created the person you were meant to be. The person you\u2019ve always wanted to be. The person whose ambition pushes them to chase after career goals; the person whose responsibility to get to practice on time on the daily puts them in favor with their superiors; the person whose hardworking ethic gets them to grind even when the going is tough and produces the best results, and, most importantly, the person who not only knows who they are, but is also comfortable with that.<\/p>\n

These lessons will be here with us even when cut times have faded into oblivion, when our records are long shattered, and when doubles seem like ill dreamt nightmares. I want to tell my 2-year-old self\u2014who began her swimming career when her mother enrolled her in Mommy and Me swimming classes at the local YMCA\u2014 you\u2019ve got the most amazing years of training, plateauing, and succeeding ahead of you. I know those days aren\u2019t over yet, though, and I won\u2019t let them be for a long while.<\/p>\n

So, here I am, at the beginning of freshman year, staring down four more years of swimming. And you know what? Bring them on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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