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By Siobhan Dale, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

These last few weeks I have been eagerly immersed in writing about Olympic champions and their moments. But now the spotlight seems to be dimming. <\/span>For that reason, I wanted to transition my focus away from Olympians to display someone far more important to me: my sister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ask anyone,\u00a0McKenna Dale<\/strong> is not a swimmer. She\u2019s a basketball player. Look at the Connecticut swimming records and McKenna has set one state record, holds one state title, and is an All-American. Along with her swimming accolades,\u00a0McKenna is an All-State basketball player who has received an athletic scholarship to Brown University. Three months of the year, during high school swim season, McKenna Dale\u2019s schedule reads a little like this:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5:30 a.m.: Wake up\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

6 a.m – 7:10 a.m: Swim Practice\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

7:30 a.m – 2:00: School<\/span><\/p>\n

2:30 p.m – 5 p.m: Swim Practice\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

6 p.m. – 7 p.m: Basketball Practice\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

8 p.m- 8:30 p.m: Weights\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Darren Dale<\/p><\/div>\n

McKenna started both swimming and basketball because her big sister (yours truly) did them. She was that annoying little sister who had to partake in every single activity I was doing at any given moment. <\/span><\/p>\n

W<\/span>hen I was 5 years old I was put in a 15 minute time-out. McKenna asked my mom if she could have a time-out as well. The night before I first went to pre-school my mom packed my bag and put it by the door. McKenna packed her own and placed it right next to mine, refusing to believe she cou<\/span>ldn\u2019t come with me the next day. The first swim club I ever competed on required swimmers to be\u00a07 or older to join. Six-year-old McKenna came to watch me everyday from the bleachers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When we were in high school, McKenna and I overlapped for two years. Despite having basketball practice to attend, McKenna did extra hours with me in the pool and lifted with me after school. I always told her to go home, get something to eat, get some sleep. She always replied, \u201cSiobhan, I\u2019m doing this with you. Right next to you.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On days I felt most like crying, McKenna was right next to me making me laugh. On days I felt like giving up, McKenna was right next to me doing one more set. She\u2019s one of those annoying people who, when the coach asks if it\u2019s been hard enough, she actually says \u201cno.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Darren Dale<\/p><\/div>\n

On the day where it was real, at our state championship meet my junior year, McKenna swam the 50 free final in the lane right next to me. When they announced my name she actually turned to me and clapped and cheered. Her focus on me before the race only foreshadowed how she would act after the sprint was finished. <\/span><\/p>\n

She had to ask our coach what place she got because she \u201cwas so worried for me\u201d that she looked at my time first and then spent the next 10 minutes hugging me and congratulating me on the win. McKenna trained just as hard as I had, but didn\u2019t medal that year. She didn\u2019t mention it once. Instead she told me how proud she was of me and how grateful she was for the whole season. I asked her if she was okay with her swim and she said she only cared about mine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I lost that same race my senior year, my coach was standing behind my lane. The first words I spoke to him after the loss were, \u201cWhere\u2019s McKenna?\u201d He told me to go talk to her after she was finished warming up for her 100\u00a0fly. At that same moment she came sprinting over to us and spent the next 15 minutes talking to me, instead of completing her warmup (she went a best time anyways). <\/span><\/p>\n

When McKenna started her\u00a0junior year, I went to college and for the first time in 18 years we were apart. We talked every single day on the phone. I couldn\u2019t watch her States races online, so my mom had me on the phone while she was swimming. She won an event, but lost the other. I spent an hour speaking to her on the phone and I would have talked longer but she told me she had to go to the gym. The day McKenna Dale lost at States in swimming she proceeded to spend four hours training for\u00a0basketball.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018 McKenna will attend Brown University on a basketball scholarship. It\u2019s a running joke on both her swimming and basketball teams that the girl who always asks \u201cwait, what are we doing?\u201d is now Ivy League bound. McKenna always responds to her \u201cIvy League\u201d status in the same humble way–\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI would have about a 2 percent chance of getting accepted if I didn\u2019t have basketball,\u201d she laughs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Darren Dale<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s hard to equate the word \u201cunderdog\u201d with the idea of an All-American Division I athlete. The way McKenna talks, I can tell she thinks that overcoming a two percent chance makes her lucky. That thought of hers is the reason why I wrote this. <\/span><\/p>\n

A two percent chance doesn\u2019t make you lucky, it makes you an underdog. McKenna Dale is the girl who won states. But she\u2019s also the girl who placed dead\u00a0last in the final\u00a0her freshman year. McKenna Dale is the girl who has her name on a banner in the E.O. Smith gym naming her as a thousand point scorer. She\u2019s also the freshman\u00a0who missed a game winning shot in conference finals. McKenna Dale is the girl who is going to Brown University. She\u2019s also the girl who had a two percent chance of getting in. <\/span><\/p>\n

McKenna Dale is the girl who taught me that you fight, no matter what odds are against you, no matter what chance you have of winning. She is the girl who taught me what it means to overcome the past and create a future. Two percent doesn\u2019t make you lucky. It forces you to make yourself. McKenna made herself into someone who is no longer an underdog. <\/span><\/p>\n

This year she will swim her last swim season ever as the girl to beat in her respective events. She will play her last high school basketball season as the girl to watch. At Brown University she will once again drop to underdog status. But if the past truly is prologue, I don\u2019t believe that title will last very long. She is the two percent that I believe in 100 percent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Good luck this season to all you underdogs. Good luck this season to all of you who are underdogs no longer. But most importantly, good luck to my sister. You may have never been lucky, but the day you were born I knew I was.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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