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By Julia Cunningham, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

When did swimming become a sport? It certainly didn\u2019t start that way. My earliest memories of swimming revolve around the people.<\/p>\n

I was so excited to have a mass play date everyday after school for two hours, or, at that age it was probably closer to an hour. We\u2019d stand behind our lane and try to push each other in without getting caught. When we had no other choice we\u2019d get in the pool and shiver so much that we got more exercise from the time between laps than the few actual laps we did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely remember that in age group swimming your lane mates were people you always talked with and goofed off with,\u201d Julia Wieczorek<\/b>, a junior at Vassar College said. \u201cMaybe you were talking when the coach was talking or you were trying to touch the bottom of the pool with your teammates…and that was very age-group.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swimming was a time to socialize and giggle and splash each other and do everything in our power to make our coach roll her eyes and tell us it was time for starts, or even better, relays. Our lane mates were our closest confidants and our best friends. Swimming didn\u2019t start as a sport; it started as a way to make friends.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in there the work began to payoff, and suddenly things got a little competitive. We were no longer all<\/i> best friends. Sleepovers got a little more selective. It probably didn\u2019t help that puberty and speed entered the picture around the same time. Practices became a chance to compare yourself to the person swimming next to you, the people in front or behind you, or even better– a chance to humiliate the guys. Whoever got their hand on the wall first was the fastest person on the team. Whoever showed up to the most practices had the most potential when it came to meets.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Nicholas McMillan<\/p><\/div>\n

We all know that\u2019s not how it happened. The person sprinting every set often found themselves falling short at meets. Or somehow, that person who came three out of seven or eight practices couldn\u2019t be touched. Lane mates became a way to test yourself. Was Jane suddenly on a faster interval? Did Janet just drop three seconds? Did Jill just beat Bob? Why weren\u2019t you doing the same? You wanted to be the lane leader. If you weren\u2019t first, you were last (to quote Talladega Nights).<\/p>\n

But then your swimming career really exploded. Suddenly, high school started and later college. Lane mates took on an entirely new meaning.<\/p>\n

You end up grouped together by intervals, so sometimes the only people you\u2019ll talk to throughout a practice are your lane mates or those immediately around you,\u201d Wieczorek explained. \u201cJust because you train with them more, I think you know them better. You always know how they\u2019re going to perform in the pool.\u201d You begin to know your lane mates’ splits as well as your own.<\/p>\n

You begin to understand the implications of the word \u201cteam,\u201d and the fact that “There is no ‘I’ in team” becomes less of a cliche and more of a mantra. In 2008, Cullen Jones<\/b> was part of the relay that was expected to be the \u201cweak link\u201d when it came to Michale Phelps<\/strong>\u2019s push for eight gold medals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the one relay they were expecting us not to win, but for us to pull it out it was amazing,\u201d Jones said in an interview with HNGN. \u201cWhen we were in the huddle getting ready to swim that race it wasn’t about \u2018We gotta win this because I’m trying to go for eight\u2019 it was about how are we gonna pull this off as Team USA,\u201d he said of Phelps. \u201cI mean anybody could have sat back and made it about themselves, but he was all about Team USA.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Maddie Kyler<\/p><\/div>\n

Suddenly swimming was no longer an individual – each man for him or herself – sport. Suddenly swimming was a team sport. You scored points as a team, you worked together as a team, you trained as a team. Your lane mates were still your competition, but now they were there to push you to be your best. You learned how to become best friends with your lane mates again.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not afraid to be mean to each other, but at the same time it\u2019s very easy to say \u2018Okay, I respect what this person\u2019s going to do, and I\u2019m going to let them go ahead of me because maybe I\u2019m not performing as well as them right now, but in another set I will be,\u2019\u201d Wieczorek said. Respect for each other’s goals came with the bond of staring at each other’s feet for hours. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a trust factor that they\u2019re going to treat you with the same respect that you treat them with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teammates push you to be your best in every situation. They are there to motivate you and cheer you on. \u201cThere\u2019s a certain pride that you have when you see your lane mates doing really well in a meet or in practice,” Wieczorek said. “You may even be prouder of them than your other teammates because you were there to watch that happen or you helped them through that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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