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

For almost any swimmer, retirement comes with some reluctance and nostalgia. When one particular activity has been such a serious part of someone\u2019s life for so long, it\u2019s tough to leave it behind and experience such a massive lifestyle change. But sometimes, the sport has a way of telling someone that enough is enough, that it\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

When his swimmers are pondering retirement, Georgia coach Jack Bauerle\u00a0<\/strong>tells them,\u00a0\u201cIf you feel and are willing to do what you want to go faster and if you feel like you can, then you continue. If there\u2019s one part of you that\u2019s satiated, then you stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many, there\u2019s not really a choice: The end of high school or the end of college means that life can no longer sustain a swimming career. For those with the opportunity at professional swimming, the inability to keep up with one\u2019s main competitors or failure to qualify for a team or meet can be a sign of the end.<\/p>\n

Increasingly scarce in sports are those who manage to go out on their own terms, when they are still close to the top of their game. Aaron Peirsol<\/strong> comes to mind as one such example\u2014he retired after winning Pan Pacs gold in his hometown in 2010. Twenty-three-time Olympic gold medalist\u00a0Michael Phelps\u00a0<\/strong>also got to ride into the sunset.<\/p>\n

Nic Fink<\/strong>, who has swum for Bauerle the last seven years,\u00a0has experienced both the failures and successes which often prompt retirement, and each time, he\u2019s chosen to swim on.<\/p>\n

Before the 2016 Olympic Trials, Fink had represented the U.S. in both breaststroke events at two straight World Championships. At Pan Pacs in 2014, he had been the silver medalist in the 200 breast. But at Trials, he fell all the way to seventh in both races.<\/p>\n

He could have decided that the sport had swum him by and moved on. \u201cIt took him a while to get over Trials. It was tough,\u201d Bauerle said. \u201cHe was devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Fink came back, and one year later, the scene in Indianapolis was quite the opposite. In a minor upset, Fink finished second in a loaded 200 breast final, nine hundredths ahead of Olympic silver medalist Josh<\/strong> Prenot<\/strong>, to secure a spot on a third World Champs team. In Budapest, he finished fifth in the 200 breast.<\/p>\n

After that high, that impressive turnaround, Fink again considered hanging up the suit, but only briefly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did have a good year last year\u2014it was more the year I wanted, but I did have the feeling that I did have more to give, more to give to myself and to the sport,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I had the feeling of, \u2018This is it\u2014this is as far as I\u2019m going to go,\u2019 I would have been happy with that.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Fink figured he had more to give, and he wanted to see it through. His main goal: \u201cKeep getting better and keep making teams.\u201d Okay, fair enough. Consider that Fink\u2019s best time in the 200 breast is 2:08.56. Understandably, he believes he can break into the 2:07-range, a feat only three other Americans have accomplished. But there\u2019s another piece to what Fink still wants out of the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to keep having fun,\u201d he said. \u201cThe second I stop having fun with it, it\u2019s not worth all the effort and time. I do like the grind. I do like working out for a job, and it is fun. My main goal is to keep making major international trips and continue to improve because everyone else is improving, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

Not to mention the perks. Fink recalled last summer\u2019s trip to Europe, which included outdoor taper practices before Worlds in Croatia and then after the meet, a week of exploring Rome, \u201cseeing a bunch of things that you probably would have never seen otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you follow swimming closely, you probably knew a bit about the 24-year-old Fink, his down year in 2016 and his bounce back in 2017. Perhaps you noticed Fink\u2019s strong mid-season efforts this past weekend at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis, when he finished second in the 100 breast (1:00.94) and third in the 200 breast (2:11.33).<\/p>\n

You probably didn\u2019t know that Fink was an electrical engineering major at Georgia and a post-grad scholar\u2014or that his father, Peter<\/strong>, is Senior Vice President of Events for the NBA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always like to ask him his opinions on certain things and figure out what may be going on on the inside, but I don\u2019t think he tends to discuss that much stuff,\u201d Nic Fink said. \u201cIt is fun to see some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. He plans the All-Star Game.”<\/p>\n

But while Nic is an avid sports fan, he has no plans to follow his father into that industry. Instead, he plans on putting that well-earned degree to good use. Five years from now, he said, he has no intention of spending his Fridays grinding through threshold IM sets anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really see myself swimming past 2020 if I\u2019m taking it year by year. I studied electrical engineering in college, so I\u2019d like to do something like that. It\u2019s a pretty general degree, maybe go to grad school and get something a little more specified,\u201d Fink said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the postgrads, they fear a desk job. They fear sitting down at the same desk all day and doing work. They\u2019d rather be active and be exercising. I totally get that, but I\u2019m not afraid of a real-world job. Maybe that will be a reality check when I get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, Fink will keep staring at the black line for a little while longer, for exactly the right reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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