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Morning Splash<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

At her final NCAA championships in 2017, Emily Cameron<\/strong> swam in the consolation finals of both IM events and was the breaststroker on Georgia\u2019s medley relays. She had been a part of two national championship-winning Georgia teams (in 2014 and 2016), and she was a finalist in the 200 IM at the 2016 Olympic Trials, but with her college career over, she was finished in the pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like with swimming I reached my highest potential, and I couldn\u2019t be more grateful for the goals that I achieved. I surprised myself for sure,\u201d Cameron said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that being said, I don\u2019t think that I reached my full potential athletically.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Cory A. Cole<\/p><\/div>\n

Before she built a career as one of the country\u2019s top IM swimmers, Cameron had run cross country in high school, and both her parents had been runners. So during her senior year, the idea crossed her mind that she could attempt triathlons.<\/p>\n

What sold her on the plan? Time away from\u2014quite literally\u2014everything.<\/p>\n

During the summer of 2017, Cameron and her mother completed a 500-mile trek through Europe. For almost six weeks, she was disconnected from the rest of the world, and that gave her time and space to chew on where she was in her life and what she wanted to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really just had a chance to reflect on my career in the pool,\u201d she said. \u201cI knew that as soon as I got back, I wanted to jump head-first into my training for triathlon and just get out there and race because I had really missed that desire to compete. I knew it was still within me, and I wanted to bring it out again, just in a different area.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when she returned to Athens, Ga., for her fifth and final year of college, she resumed full-time training, but the program was much different than what she had done for four years with Jack Bauerle<\/strong> and the Bulldogs\u2019 swim team.<\/p>\n

As part of USA Triathlon\u2019s College Recruitment Program, Cameron was assigned an individualized coach who would create her workouts and communicate regularly. While she\u2019s found it fairly easy to get back into \u201cat least decent swimming shape,\u201d getting back into her running groove and getting comfortable on the bike have been a bit more challenging.<\/p>\n

Cameron estimates that she does 80 percent of her training by herself. On occasion, she will still swim with the Georgia team or find groups to run or bike with, but she insists she doesn\u2019t mind training solo.<\/p>\n

Why? Because she\u2019s pursuing triathlon for one reason: passion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m self-motivated completely,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cThis is all because I want to do this and not because I\u2019m here on a scholarship or I owe somebody something. This is completely for me. If the drive and motivation is there for yourself, I think that\u2019s huge, and I think there\u2019s more to give there.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since returning from Europe, Cameron has already raced four triathlons. Most recently, she finished second at the NCAA East Regional Qualifier in Sarasota, Fla., on Oct. 7. That qualified her to compete in the NCAA Triathlon National Championship on Nov. 5 in Tempe, Ariz.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Emily Cameron<\/p><\/div>\n

So far, Cameron has exclusively raced sprint triathlons: 750-meter swim, 20-kilometer bike and five-kilometer run. The races take just over an hour to complete, and the swimming is the quickest of the segments. In the regional race, Cameron completed her swim in just over nine minutes.<\/p>\n

Still, even though swimming is such a small part of a triathlon, Cameron explained that coming from a swimming background provides her with a huge advantage. She typically tries to break away from her competitors without a swimming background during that portion of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to have a pretty darn good swim to even contend for a high placement in these races because that\u2019s what\u2019s going to get you in the lead pack with the bike,\u201d she said. \u201cIt all begins with your base in swimming, and if it\u2019s good, you\u2019re on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recent history of swimmers transforming themselves into elite triathletes includes the name Gwen Jorgensen<\/strong>, who swam and ran during her college days at the University of Wisconsin before turning her attention to triathlons. In the Olympic triathlon last year in Rio, Jorgensen won Olympic gold.<\/p>\n

And even though she is a complete novice to the sport, Cameron aspires to reach that elite level. She plans on attempting her first Olympic-distance triathlon\u2014double the length of the sprint version\u2014in the coming months.<\/p>\n

Next fall, Cameron hopes to be accepted into a resident program with USA Triathlon where she would train full-time. With graduation from Georgia on the horizon in May, she has begun applying to graduate school programs, but if she is offered a spot in the USA Triathlon program, she would not turn that down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I would jump at the opportunity because I don\u2019t know how many times it\u2019s going to come around for me in the future,\u201d she said. \u201cIf there\u2019s potential that shows that I have the ability to become an elite triathlete, then I\u2019m going to pursue that dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

How realistic is that dream? Cameron doesn\u2019t know yet, but she expects to figure out exactly where she stands soon enough, within the next year to two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe field is really, really deep right now with female triathletes, so realistically I\u2019d say 2024 is more the goal,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to get out there and race with people who\u2019ve been around the sport for years, and I can really just get some wisdom from then and learn from them.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cameron has spent the last several years living among athletes who are the best in the world at what they do at Georgia\u2014including her roommate and best friend Olivia Smoliga<\/strong>, who was an Olympic gold medalist in the pool in Rio.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Emily Cameron<\/p><\/div>\n

Watching her friends taste success at the highest level in sport made Cameron eager to take on a challenge like triathlon\u2014to commit herself to a sport she had never tried before and try to reach that elite status that she knew was out of reach for her in swimming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that I was great at swimming and I am so thankful for how much that I accomplished,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cBut I think there was a part of me that still wanted to reach the same level that my teammates have, just maybe not in the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Cameron is wholeheartedly committed to pursuing excellence in triathlon.<\/p>\n

\u201c100 percent. Absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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