{"id":234132,"date":"2016-12-26T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=234132"},"modified":"2016-12-22T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:29:00","slug":"swimming-worlds-newcomer-of-the-year-penny-oleksiak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-worlds-newcomer-of-the-year-penny-oleksiak\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming World&#8217;s Newcomer of the Year: Penny Oleksiak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> did not participate at the 2015 World Championships. Just 15 years old at the time, her big meet for that summer came a month later, at the Junior World Championships in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>So she was making her senior-level international debut when she swam at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Needless to say, that went rather well.<\/p>\n<p>On day one of the swimming competition in Rio, Oleksiak and Team Canada earned the bronze in the 400 free relay, making Oleksiak and fellow 16-year-old Canadian\u00a0<strong>Taylor Ruck<\/strong> the first Olympic medalists to have been born in the year 2000 or later.<\/p>\n<p>Five days later, she tied with\u00a0<strong>Simone Manuel\u00a0<\/strong>for gold in the 100 free and became the first 21st century-born Olympic champion.<\/p>\n<p>She followed that up with an appearance at the Short Course World Championships in Windsor earlier this month\u2014ironically, her first appearance at a FINA World Championships. While there, she picked up four medals, including\u00a0gold in both the 200 and 800 free relays.<\/p>\n<p>The accolades have kept on coming for Oleksiak, who was honored two weeks ago with the Lou Marsh Trophy, given annually to the top athlete in any sport in the country. She&#8217;s the first female swimmer in a half-century to win that honor.<\/p>\n<p>But as Oleksiak reminded the world on a conference call that day, she&#8217;s still in high school. As she grows up, her swimming career figures to continue to blossom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"234681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-worlds-newcomer-of-the-year-penny-oleksiak\/bestof16-badge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge.png\" data-orig-size=\"304,222\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bestof16-badge\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;bestof16-badge&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge.png\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-234681 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge-274x200.png\" alt=\"bestof16-badge\" width=\"274\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge-274x200.png 274w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge.png 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about Oleksiak from the day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/penny-oleksiak-named-canadas-top-athlete-wins-lou-marsh-trophy\/\" target=\"_blank\">she was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> is 16 years old, a high school student and an Olympic gold medalist, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/simone-manuel-penny-oleksiak-tie-for-gold-in-historic-100-free-final\/\" target=\"_blank\">tied for first<\/a> in the women\u2019s 100 free final this past summer in Rio. And for 2016, she was named the best athlete in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, she was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy, which honors the top Canadian athlete in any sport, professional or amateur. Oleksiak beat out six other finalists, including Olympic sprinter\u00a0<strong>Andre De Grasse<\/strong>, who won three medals in Rio, and NHL star\u00a0<strong>Sidney Crosby<\/strong>, who led the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup this summer\u2014and has long been one of Oleksiak\u2019s sports heroes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always looked up to Sidney Crosby. I remember at book fairs I used to buy photos of him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In hockey-crazy Canada, a swimmer beating out an NHL legend coming off one of the signature performances of his career for an all-sport award means this teenager must have done something extraordinary this year. After all, no swimmer had won the award since <strong>Mark Tewksbury<\/strong> in 1992, and no female swimmer had been honored since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/elaine-tanner-penny-oleksiak\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Elaine Tanner<\/strong><\/a> in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say that Oleksiak did just that.<\/p>\n<p>Before qualifying for her first Olympic team in April, the biggest meet at which Oleksiak had ever swum was the 2015 World Junior Championships in Singapore. But when thrown into the pressure-cooker of the Olympic Games, Oleksiak immediately rose to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>On day one, she was tasked with anchoring Canada\u2019s 400 free relay\u00a0in the Olympic final. She had sat out qualifying, when her teammates earned lane three to put the squad in position to earn Canada\u2019s first women\u2019s swimming medal in two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak entered the water in third place and promptly split 52.72, pulling away from Sweden and fending off the\u00a0Netherlands to lock up the bronze medal. The next night,\u00a0she won her first individual medal, finishing second behind\u00a0<strong>Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong>\u00a0and touching in 56.46, good for a new Canadian and World Junior record.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, Oleksiak anchored Canada\u2019s 800 free relay squad to yet another bronze. With the 100 free final coming up a day later, and Oleksiak had earned lane five for that occasion.<\/p>\n<p>No Canadian Summer Olympian had ever won four medals in a single Games. All of the sudden, the expectations had been altered. Oleksiak knew it, and so did\u00a0<strong>Ben Titley<\/strong>, the head coach for Canada\u2019s Olympic swim team and also Oleksiak\u2019s personal coach.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cTo get the first three medals probably changed what we thought was possible for the 100 free,\u201d Titley said. \u201cShe knew from the semifinals that she was able to compete the world record-holder, <strong>Cate<\/strong> <strong>Campbell<\/strong>, and she had closed her down in the last 25 meters of that race. I think she knew she had what it took to be competitive, and once you know that, then it\u2019s all about executing your race on that day, and that\u2019s something she did really well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What stands out to Titley is not the means by which Oleksiak won gold\u2014coming from seemingly out of nowhere the last 15 meters to tie with\u00a0<strong>Simone Manuel<\/strong> at the finish. It\u2019s her reaction in the immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenny doesn\u2019t actually turn around and look at the scoreboard to see what the result is,\u201d Titley explained. \u201cThat\u2019s something I\u2019ve never seen by any athlete that I\u2019ve coached over the past 20 years, being okay with what you\u2019ve done, being content with the fact that you gave 100% effort, and the result, to a certain extent, is immaterial to that effort. That\u2019s something I haven\u2019t seen in any senior athletes, let alone a 16-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak echoed her coach, explaining that \u201cas long as I know I put 100% into the race, I tell myself that whatever result is on the board behind me, I\u2019m going to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak again represented Canada this past week at a home Short Course World Championships in Windsor. A crowd favorite the entire meet, Oleksiak picked up a bronze in the 100 free and helped her country win gold in both the 200 and 800 free relays, narrowly missing the world record in the longer distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think any of us had super high expectations going into Windsor. I think we were all just a little out of our element being short course,\u201d she said. \u201c[The meet] was super fun. Being able to close it out with two gold medals, both on relays, it was pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But despite all of the medals and honors, what Oleksiak insists that she\u2019s most proud of happened even before she left for Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI think I\u2019m most proud of the training I did last year,\u201d she said. \u201cI did a lot of really, really hard training, whether it was at the pool or being at CrossFit, even at school\u2014I even tried to get in some good work here. I\u2019m proud of how hard I worked last year and all the people that helped push me, I\u2019m really, really grateful for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak didn\u2019t learn that she had won the prestigious Trophy in some grand, Heisman-esque ceremony. No, she was doing what any other teenager might have been on any normal Tuesday: sitting in class, law class specifically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told my teacher when I walked into class that I would be on my phone during class and that I was watching out for something on Twitter,\u201d Oleksiak said. Under the circumstances, the teacher was understanding, but \u201cshe called me out a couple of times to search something on Google.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And how will she celebrate the award tonight? Oleksiak responded just like any 16-year-old might.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a test tomorrow. I need to study!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019f I\u2019m lucky, I\u2019ll get some cake at dinner. 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