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By Jinq En Phee, Swimming World College Intern.<\/em><\/p>\n

A number of foreign swimmers are making an impact on the NCAA swimming scene. According to scholarshipstats.com<\/a>, the percentages of foreign students competing in NCAA swimming are 5.9 percent and 5.8 percent respectively for men and women. At this year’s National Championships, Joseph Schooling<\/strong> from Singapore (University of Texas), Farida Osman<\/strong> from Egypt (University of California), and Felix Aubock<\/strong> from Austria (University of Michigan) were among those with the most notable performances.<\/p>\n

I too am an international student studying and training here in the United States. When I was living at home, I heard my older teammates who had just returned from the States constantly talking about their experience and I wondered what all the fuss was about. After making the move myself, I finally understood.<\/p>\n

So what made me decide to travel halfway across the world just to swim and study?<\/p>\n

College sports are not as popular in many countries as they are in the United States. In my country, we didn\u2019t have an association like the NCAA that helps build athletic programs in colleges and universities.<\/p>\n

When I was in high school, I found my passion in competitive swimming and I decided that I didn\u2019t want to just stop after I graduated from high school. I wanted to attend college and be able to swim competitively at the same time.<\/p>\n

Not that it\u2019s impossible to achieve that in my country, but it\u2019s definitely more difficult. My club coach, who studied and swam at UCLA, introduced me to the college swimming scene in the USA, and that was when I decided that the USA was the place I wanted to go to after high school.<\/p>\n

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Transitioning into college swimming from a place where I only swam long course meters all my life was tough. I had to rethink how to swim my strokes differently to adapt to short course yards, learn what a good timing for a 100 yard race is, and practice twice the amount of turns that I was used to.<\/p>\n

The first few months trying to learn how to swim short course yards wasn\u2019t as easy as I thought it would be. There were too many different things that I had to think about when I swim, and walls just appear way more often than what I was used to.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Steve Snodgrass<\/p><\/div>\n

Swimming aside, the hardest part was to adjust to the different language, food, and the American culture.<\/p>\n

English isn\u2019t my first language. There were a lot of basic words that I couldn\u2019t pronounce properly when I first came here due to the lack of exposure to the English language back home. I had to start learning how to speak and write English every day. I’m also still adjusting to\u00a0having to eat food that I only ate\u00a0once every few months back home.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: America East<\/p><\/div>\n

What really surprised me is how every swimmer on my team is a team oriented person. That was the biggest difference, compared to where I came from where swimming is more of an individual sport.<\/p>\n

I was at my first dual meet and people were cheering so loudly for their teammates when they raced. It was weird because I was only familiar with racing in a dead quiet environment. After being involved in this sport for more than a decade, I finally got to experience swimming as a team sport, and that is one amazing experience I would love to share with everyone else back home.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve only been in the United States for about eight months, but I\u2019d say that getting to experience college swimming here invaluable, and it is a privilege.<\/p>\n

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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