{"id":277023,"date":"2017-09-11T06:06:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=277023"},"modified":"2017-09-11T06:11:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:11:44","slug":"elizabeth-beisel-leads-swim-across-america-discusses-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/elizabeth-beisel-leads-swim-across-america-discusses-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Beisel Leads Record-Breaking Swim Across America, Discusses Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a summer of traveling to Budapest for World Championships, Austin for the LEAD Sports Summit and more, three-time Olympian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=elizabeth+beisel\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Elizabeth Beisel<\/strong><\/a> made a trip back home to Rhode Island for the state&#8217;s Swim Across America event.<\/p>\n<p>The swim was one in a series of sixteen open water swims occurring throughout the summer months. It occurred on September 9 at\u00a0Roger Wheeler Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Per her Instagram account, the small state hosted the largest Swim Across America event ever, raising over $175,000 for cancer research. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimacrossamerica.org\/site\/TR?fr_id=4374&amp;pg=entry\" target=\"_blank\">Swim Across America website<\/a>, the distinct total was $178,927. Beisel was joined by 2012 Open Water Olympian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=alex+meyer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alex Meyer<\/strong><\/a> at the head of the pack.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BY3cxLBg9Qa\/\" target=\"_blank\">600 swimmers vs. cancer. Rhode Island might be the smallest state, but we just hosted the largest @saaswim event EVER. Over $175,000 will go towards cancer research because of YOU. ????<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by Elizabeth Beisel (@ebeisel34) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-09-10T15:59:19+00:00\">Sep 10, 2017 at 8:59am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While most people donate money to the cause or participate in the half mile or mile swim themselves, Beisel went one step further in visiting cancer patients at the Women &amp; Infants Infusion Center in Providence, R.I.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/sports\/20170908\/ris-elizabeth-beisel-preparing-for-retirement-from-competitive-swimming-after-olympic-sized-career\" target=\"_blank\">Providence Journal<\/a>, Beisel brought her upbeat and energetic personality to the\u00a0facility, in an attempt to thank the patients who support her even during their troubled times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201cThey\u2019re in a hospital going through chemo for breast cancer or ovarian cancer \u2014 whatever it is \u2014 and they\u2019re happy for me,\u201d Beisel told the Journal. \u201cAnd that blows my mind, because their outlook on life is so different from everybody else. We need more people in the world like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While she may have impacted the lives of these patients this weekend, it is clear that Beisel has also influenced countless swimmers throughout her career. She was named team Captain at both the 2016 Olympic Games and 2017 World Championships and won the Team Leadership &amp; Inspiration Award at the 2016 Golden Goggles. She credited past Olympians such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=natalie+coughlin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Natalie Coughlin<\/strong><\/a> for teaching her how to properly and effectively lead a national swim team.<\/p>\n<p>Beisel\u00a0told the Journal about her experiences at these meets, including her disappointing 400 IM performance in Rio. But she was excited to remember her bronze medal swim in the 200 back in 2012, where the gold was earned by American teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=missy+franklin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Missy Franklin<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201cI just have this image of the two American flags reflecting in the water,\u201d Beisel said. \u201cThat\u2019s something I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She did not receive quite the same experience in Budapest after finishing seventh in her signature 400 IM. But the event reminded her that she loved swimming because of the sport itself, not because she is good at it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201cI know so many swimmers who retire and refuse to get in the pool ever again,\u201d Beisel said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s so sad, because that\u2019s not the goal when you start swimming or start any sport.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And when it comes to that big word\u2014retirement, Beisel will wait until the end of the year to make a formal announcement on her status as a professional competitive swimmer. In the meantime, she voiced some new personal goals for outside of the pool. Beisel hopes to earn a job in sports broadcasting, contribute to NBC coverage of the 2020 Olympic Games and write a book.<\/p>\n<p>And with a life already full of giving, experiencing and inspiring, that is sure to a be book many people will read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a summer of traveling to Budapest for World Championships, Austin for the LEAD Sports Summit and more, three-time Olympian Elizabeth Beisel made a trip back home to Rhode Island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":59513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[63532,26168,25136,1776,50988,63533],"class_list":["post-277023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-beisel","tag-elizabeth-beisel","tag-missy-franklin","tag-natalie-coughlin","tag-swim-across-america","tag-swim-across-america-rhode-island"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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