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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ella Eastin<\/strong> arrived at Stanford in September 2015 having won titles at just about every Junior-level meet\u2014Junior Nationals, Junior Pan Pacs and even the Junior World Championships.<\/p>\n

Six months later, she was a two-time NCAA champion\u2014very nearly a triple-event winner\u2014and an American record-holder.<\/p>\n

Not too many blue-chip recruits become one of the premier swimmers in the country after one season, but for Eastin, everything immediately clicked at Stanford. She was comfortable both in the pool, swimming under head coach Greg Meehan<\/strong> and associate head coach Tracy Duchac<\/strong> for a team that had finished third at the NCAA championships the year before, and outside of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got there, I bought in quickly to what Tracy and Greg were having me do,\u201d Eastin said. \u201cI felt like I was surrounded by a lot of other hard-working, goal-oriented, Type A people. And I\u2019m not just saying the swim team\u2014at school, the environment is definitely something that only works for some people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within just a couple months\u2014or less than a quarter on Stanford\u2019s academic calendar\u2014Eastin was already swimming times that would have won individual NCAA championships the year before. At the Art Adamson Invitational in late November 2015, Eastin swam a 4:01.04 in the 400 IM, more than a second faster than Sarah Henry\u2019s<\/strong> winning time of 4:02.47 from the previous year\u2019s NCAAs.<\/p>\n

At the Pac-12 Championships in February, Eastin out-dueled fellow Bay Area freshman Kathleen Baker<\/strong> to win the 200 IM, 1:52.77 to 1:52.80, and a day later she broke 4:00 for the first time in the 400 IM.<\/p>\n

Entering her first NCAA championships in Atlanta as a big favorite, she delivered, winning the 200 IM by more than a second and breaking the American record with her time of 1:51.65. She finished first in the 400 IM by a whopping five seconds and then, in her final race, pushed Kelsi Worrell<\/strong> to the limit in the 200 fly, almost overcoming a huge deficit on the final 50 before settling for second place.<\/p>\n

The enormity and emotion of the NCAA championships did not phase the freshman\u2014mostly because she had no idea what to expect.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was really helpful for me that I didn\u2019t know the extent to which people got nervous for the meet or how big and exciting it was. I think it was helpful for me to walk in and pretend that I was at another Junior National meet, and I knew that I had the potential to put my hand on the wall first,\u201d she<\/p>\n

Confidence was no issue, either. Training with professionals like future Olympic gold medalist Maya DiRado<\/strong> helped Eastin begin to think of herself on that same level, and at NCAAs, she knew she had the full support of the entire Stanford team, helping to take the pressure off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt as though people believed in me,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t as though they were counting on me\u2014my team is counting on me, always\u2014but I didn\u2019t feel heavy pressure from them or anyone else. I always put the pressure on myself, and I always want to do the best I can for my swimming. But in this type of environment, it\u2019s more fun to do it for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following her wildly successful performance in Atlanta, Eastin went straight to Colorado Springs with Meehan and a small group of teammates for an altitude training camp, the focus already turned towards the long course pool and Olympic Trials.<\/p>\n

The plan appeared to be working in early May, when Eastin returned to Georgia Tech for some long course racing. She posted career-best times in both the 400 IM (4:40.70) and 200 IM (2:10.54), beating eventual Olympic bronze medalist DiRado head-to-head in the later event.<\/p>\n

But when she was on deck in Omaha at Olympic Trials, her confidence had flickered. Expectations were ramped up after the successful spring, but with 1700-plus swimmers and a pool inside a massive arena seating 14,000, she felt intimidated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever had a really good year where I\u2019ve had a really good short course season and a really good long course season,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I stepped into the long course season after NCAAs was over, it was a whole new ballgame with a whole new group of people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m racing people five years older than me\u2014or more\u2014and it was hard for me to put myself in a position where I felt like I was in the race. I looked around and felt that everyone else had been in those positions before and had deserved those spots. I don\u2019t know that I gave myself quite enough credit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her first swim of the meet, Eastin finished ninth in the 400 IM, just four one-hundredths\u00a0outside of the top eight and a spot in the championship final. Her time of 4:42.08 was more than a second slower than she had swum just six weeks earlier in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Three days later, she swam in the final of the 200 IM and actually was in the lead after the butterfly and in second at the halfway mark, but she faded badly to finish fifth in 2:11.49.<\/p>\n

Understandably upset with the results, Eastin left Omaha and went home to Southern California for the remainder of the summer. But as she reflected on her season, she realized that after all the work she put in, she had no reason not to feel confident\u2014even at the hyped-up Olympic Trials<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that the times I swam my best were the times I believed in myself the most, and that was at NCAAs and a couple of random [long course] meets,\u201d she said. \u201cTaking that as a lesson and remembering what I\u2019m doing every single day to be in that position, I have a reason to trust that I\u2019m going to be able to do what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eastin hardly worked out over the next two months, and for the first time in years she had no routine to follow. She was actually on vacation in Florida during the Olympics but did catch a couple of races on television in her hotel room\u2014including those when DiRado and Stanford teammate Simone Manuel<\/strong> won individual gold medals in upset fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so bizarre to me to turn on the TV and watch among millions and millions of other people watching the same thing and be like, \u2018I see those girls on a daily basis,\u2019\u201d Eastin said. \u201cIt was special, even more special knowing them personally and knowing that both of them worked so hard to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t know it at the time, but just a few months later Eastin would have her own chance to race for international medals as USA Swimming tapped her for a spot on the Short Course World Championships team in Windsor, Canada.<\/p>\n

When she first got the invitation Eastin was reluctant to accept the spot on the team\u2014mostly because she would miss a week of classes right before final exams. But Meehan strongly encouraged his sophomore IMer to accept what would be her first opportunity to compete on a senior U.S. national team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he always says when someone is invited to go to one of these meets is, \u2018Being able to represent your country is a huge honor, and there are so many people that would love to be in that position, and that\u2019s something that you should take advantage of while you can,\u2019\u201d Eastin recalled.<\/p>\n

Eastin would be competing in all three IM races in Windsor\u2014all of which Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> would be favored to dominate, as Eastin knew all too well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that when [Hosszu] gets up, and she is planning to win from the get-go, nothing\u2019s going to stop her,\u201d Eastin said. \u201cBut at the same time, knowing she\u2019s far ahead doesn\u2019t mean that anyone else in the race should stop trying.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the first day of the meet, Eastin qualified second for the 400 IM final behind Hosszu. That night, with the Hungarian well out in front, Eastin battled a tightly-bunched field to the finish and ended up touching third in 4:27.74\u2014and was later upgraded to a silver medal when Vietnam\u2019s Anh Vien Nguyen<\/strong> was disqualified for an illegal turn.<\/p>\n

Four days later in the 200 IM final, Eastin picked up another silver medal, touching the wall in 2:05.02.<\/p>\n

The experience helped Eastin realize what kind of physical effort was required to get through a major international meet\u2014she competed in nine of the meet\u2019s first ten sessions\u2014and more importantly helped instill in her a level of comfort with high-level racing\u2014albeit in the unfamiliar format of short course meters.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing I could get up and just race against these people was the best thing,\u201d she said. \u201cAt this meet, times weren\u2019t really what mattered\u2014it was about trying to get your hand on the wall first. At Olympic Trials or the Olympics, it\u2019s similar. You\u2019re supposed to get up and race for your country and race for your teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n

This spring, she\u2019ll be seeing plenty of those U.S. teammates on deck at both the Pac-12 and NCAA championships. But her Stanford team will look quite a bit different than last year\u2019s, particularly with the Manuel returning and Katie Ledecky<\/strong> beginning her college career at Stanford.\u00a0The Cardinal are now favored to end a 19-year championship drought.<\/p>\n

Heading into conference championship season, Eastin ranks fourth in the nation in the 200 IM and first in the 400 IM with a familiar face nipping at her heels: Ledecky. The freshman decided to swim the event at the Ohio State Invite in November, and Eastin managed to hold her off.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, barely,\u201d Eastin deadpanned. \u201cThere\u2019s no one in the world who can split the last 100 like she did. She went a 52\u2014that\u2019s a lot of people\u2019s 100 freestyle times, which is hysterical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless of whether Ledecky chooses to swim the IM at NCAAs, Eastin won\u2019t be worried about any pressure to defend her title or if the points will add up for Stanford to be the national champion. She figured out quickly that the NCAA meet is far too intense to be focused on anything but the process at hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we do is go about our business because the only thing you can control is what you\u2019re doing on a daily basis to improve for yourself, and improving for yourself is automatically going to help your teammates improve,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s about having each person try to do the best that they can to get as many points as they can, and however it ends up is how it\u2019s going to end up. Nothing\u2019s guaranteed, and everyone\u2019s working as hard as they can to do the best they can for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read more about Eastin, Michael Chadwick<\/a>, Mallory Comerford<\/a> and other rookies on the U.S. Short Course World Championships team, check out \u201cAn Opportunity of a Lifetime\u201d<\/a> in the February issue of Swimming World Magazine. All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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