{"id":308715,"date":"2018-05-09T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=308715"},"modified":"2018-05-09T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:02:03","slug":"olympic-bronze-medalist-hilary-caldwell-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-bronze-medalist-hilary-caldwell-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Bronze Medalist Hilary Caldwell Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA \u2013 For the first time in a long time<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=hilary+caldwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hilary Caldwell<\/a><\/strong> is going to have some spare time on her hands. The Olympic and world championship backstroke medallist has decided to retire from swimming. Suddenly the 27-year-old doesn\u2019t have a routine to follow or a schedule to keep. And she\u2019s fine with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m kind of excited,\u201d said the White Rock, B.C., native who trained at the Swimming Canada High Performance Centre \u2013 Victoria. \u201cI haven\u2019t had a free summer to do whatever I want in about 13 years. I have a lot of friends I owe visits to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell had toyed with the idea of retirement after last year\u2019s FINA World Championships in Budapest. She decided after Christmas to travel to Gold Coast in Australia and train at Griffith University with coach <strong>Michael Bohl<\/strong>, with the support of HPC-Victoria Head Coach <strong>Ryan Mallette<\/strong> and his support staff.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell had already made up her mind that the recent Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast would be her last competition. Instead of returning to training immediately following the Games, she headed to New Zealand for a trip with friends. She was comfortable with the decision but still wasn\u2019t prepared for the flood of emotions she felt climbing out of the pool following her final swim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got out of the pool and the first person gave me a hug,\u201d said Caldwell, who finished fifth in the 200-metre backstroke. \u201cI got quite emotional, a lot more than I thought I would.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m good with it but it\u2019s weird. It has been my whole life, 20-plus years and it\u2019s done. It will be a change, but I think a good one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Atkinson<\/strong>, Swimming Canada\u2019s High Performance Director, praised Caldwell for a career that saw her win bronze medals in the 200-m backstroke at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Barcelona 2013 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to congratulate Hilary on her swimming career,\u201d said Atkinson. \u201cShe has been a great competitor who was very focused on maximizing her performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning world championship and Olympic medals was a great achievement and we all wish her well in her life post swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Mallette, head coach at the High Performance Centre \u2013 Victoria, said Caldwell was fueled by determination and perseverance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHilary was not necessarily the most talented athlete that we ever had but she was definitely the most determined,\u201d said Mallette. \u201cIf you set a goal in front of her she was able to pursue that with a vigor no other athlete I ever worked with had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Cochrane<\/strong>, a two-time Olympic medallist who trained in Victoria with Caldwell called her \u201ca smart, incredibly quick-witted, passionate woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell had to fight to earn her success, said Cochrane. Whenever someone doubted her ability, she proved them wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get athletes who are really good when they\u2019re 12 to 16, it comes a little easier and they get a taste of success early,\u201d said Cochrane. \u201cHilary was not one of those swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had to overcome so much. Everybody didn\u2019t believe in her when she was younger . . . but it was always inspiring to see a woman who overcame a lot of obstacles to get to be one of the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mallette said Caldwell was an example to other swimmers in the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHilary set the bar for hard work,\u201d he said. \u201cHilary set the bar for work ethic. Hilary set the bar for what you can do if you put your mind to something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was the standard the young kids could follow in terms of all those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During her career Caldwell also won a gold medal in the 200-m backstroke at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto and a bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. She was part of the silver-medal winning 4&#215;100-m medley relay at the 2016 FINA World Championships (25m) in Windsor, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic medal in Rio was the pinnacle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Olympic medal is something I dreamed about since I was a kid,\u201d she said. \u201cIt took me a while before I was really OK with that performance because it wasn\u2019t the time I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took me a while to get to the point it doesn\u2019t matter what the time was in the Olympic final, it\u2019s about the place. That one is pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pan Am gold, coming just before 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, also was memorable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing in I wasn\u2019t that excited to swim Pan Ams,\u201d Caldwell admitted. \u201cIt was sort of an interruption on the way to world championships. And then doing it before that hometown crowd, standing on top of the podium and having everyone sing O Canada with you, that was quite special as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides being one of the country\u2019s best swimmers, Caldwell also sported the most tattoos. Her body is decorated with passages from favourite songs and books, a tribute to her former coach Randy Bennett, who died of cancer in April 2015, the Olympic rings, and a moose antler on her neck, part of an inside joke with her mother.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of things about swimming Caldwell won\u2019t miss, like the early mornings workouts and long hours of practice. She does know what she will miss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people,\u201d said Caldwell. \u201cEverybody kind of laughs at me on the Canadian team. I know everyone on deck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m chatty. I love meeting people. I love what swimming has enabled me to do. I have couches to crash on all over the world and friends all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with Swimming Canada. For press releases and advertising\u00a0inquiries\u00a0please contact\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"mailto:advertising@swimmingworld.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Advertising@<wbr \/>SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA \u2013 For the first time in a long time\u00a0Hilary Caldwell is going to have some spare time on her hands. 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