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

Veronica Burchill<\/strong> did not swim at Olympic Trials in 2012. Then just 14 years old, she didn\u2019t even have Junior Nationals cuts. But she did spend a few days in Omaha, Neb., watching the meet, and the way Burchill describes it, that experienced forever changed the course of her swimming career.<\/p>\n

Claire Adams<\/strong>, one of Burchill\u2019s teammates from Carmel Swim Club, did have Olympic Trials cuts, and she swam in both backstroke events. Carmel made an occasion out of Adams\u2019 Trials experience, bringing several swimmers, including Burchill and her younger sister Sammie<\/strong>, to watch the meet as part of a training trip.<\/p>\n

Ian<\/strong> Murray<\/strong>, who was coaching Burchill full-time in 2012 and continued as one of her coaches through 2016, noticed a major change in Burchill\u2019s training habits and a newfound seriousness in her swimming after the Omaha trip. A few weeks later, Burchill made her first Juniors cut.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we went to 2012 Trials, my entire mindset changed,\u201d Burchill said. \u201cFrom that point on, I was kind of like, \u2018Okay, I think I can do something in this sport.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The next key moment that stands out to Burchill in her swimming history came two years later, in the spring of 2014 when she was a sophomore in high school. She had just swum the 100 fly at a long course Sectionals meet. Her time was a 1:03, which Burchill described as \u201cnot terrible, but it wasn\u2019t great.\u201d Afterwards, Murray told her it would take a 59 to win Junior Nationals that summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Alright, looks like I\u2019m going a 59 this summer,\u2019\u201d Burchill recalled.<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, that August, Burchill swam a time of 59.83 in the 100 fly and won Junior Nationals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat summer was the best training I\u2019d had up to that point. I think the moment I truly fell in love with the sport was when I won the 100 fly at Juniors. Ever since that summer, I\u2019ve just enjoyed the sport so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

===<\/p>\n

In June 2017, Burchill was back home in Indiana. She had just completed her freshman year at the University of Georgia, where she had been an instant-impact relay swimmer for the Bulldogs. It was the first day of U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, about a half-hour drive south of her home in Carmel.<\/p>\n

Burchill was swimming the 100 free, in heat 12, lane one. Also in her heat were Katie Ledecky<\/strong> in lane five and three-time U.S. Olympian Amanda Weir<\/strong> in lane four. Swimming a strong race after 50 meters, Burchill was on the home stretch when suddenly, the brakes were slammed on for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hit the lane line with my left arm,\u201d Burchill explained. She lost almost all of her momentum. \u201cAt that point, I had the most adrenaline I\u2019ve ever had in my entire life. I was like, \u2018No, I messed up my race.\u2019 I have never sprinted so hard to the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Thomas Campbell\/Texas A&M Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

Somehow, she recovered. When Burchill touched the wall, she saw that she was second in her heat, at 55.04. She had destroyed her previous lifetime best of 55.89, set three years earlier. And in what turned out to be a relatively slow field of 100 freestylers, that was good enough to get her into the final in eighth place.<\/p>\n

Was she surprised? Well, yeah, because she had figured it was the 100 fly where she had her best chance to make a final, not the 100 free. Now, if she only beat two people in that final, she would earn a World Championships spot that absolutely no one saw coming.<\/p>\n

That night, Burchill dropped her time down to 54.92, good enough for seventh place, a bit frustrating at first but soon exhilarating when Burchill realized she had locked up a place on the World University Games team for the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a long time coming, if I\u2019m being honest,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t go best times for three years, and then I went best times last summer. I felt like it was a long time coming because I made the junior team in high school, but I never made an international meet with the junior team.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The result was sweet and satisfying, yes, but not surprising. Burchill had not let herself consider a scenario where she didn\u2019t make the WUGs team. That thinking was born in early May, when a confident Burchill sat down with her coach at Georgia, Brian<\/strong> Smith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Just like she had promised Murray three years earlier that she would win Junior Nationals, she was ready to promise Smith the same sort of lofty goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m making a team this summer,\u2019\u201d Burchill said. \u201cI didn\u2019t even say World Championships because I didn\u2019t think that was on the table. I was thinking WUGs. He said, \u2018Okay, but if you don\u2019t\u2014\u2019 I go, \u2018I\u2019m making WUGs.\u2019 He goes, \u2018Okay, well, we need a plan in case you don\u2019t.\u2019 I said, \u2018Okay, but I\u2019m just telling you I\u2019m making this meet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Burchill with teammate Meaghan Raab after a relay at the SEC championships — Photo Courtesy: Steven Colquitt\/University of Georgia Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

At her first international meet in Taipei, Burchill snagged a pair of relay medals and finished sixth in the 100 free. And as she sat back and reflected on the experience nine months later, she spoke with a tone of incredible satisfaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was incredible,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it was special having two teammates there with me (Taylor Dale<\/strong> and Kevin<\/strong> Litherland<\/strong>), and I got to room with some longtime friends like Miranda<\/strong> Tucker<\/strong>\u2014she and I, in 2014, that spring we tied (at Sectionals) in the 100 fly, and that\u2019s how we met. I got to room with her and Kaersten Meitz<\/strong> and Asia<\/strong> Seidt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just really cool to be with all these people that you hear about, and I\u2019m one of them. It was kind of like, \u2018Alright, I\u2019m finally moving in the direction I really want to in this sport.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

===<\/p>\n

In 2012, Burchill was in the building the night Missy Franklin<\/strong> qualified for her first Olympic team. Now, Franklin trains at Georgia, and the two occasionally share a lane. Burchill also trains daily in the sprint group with Olivia<\/strong> Smoliga<\/strong>, and in total, there are seven swimmers on deck every day in Athens who made the 2016 U.S. Olympic team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to training with these people, it\u2019s become the norm for me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is kind of still surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surrounding herself with swimmers who have had so much success has helped Burchill to see the possibilities swimming holds beyond just competing for the NCAA team. In Burchill\u2019s voice, you can hear that burning hunger and desire to reach the next level and her willingness to put in the work it takes to get there.<\/p>\n

The original source of that competitive spirit? Burchill\u2019s all-time favorite teammate: her younger sister. Shortly after Veronica left for Athens to begin her freshman year in the fall of 2016, Sammie verbally committed to the Bulldogs for the following season.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cThey can be the best of friends, and they can be the fiercest of rivals at the same time,\u201d Murray said. \u201cI think they both thrive from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Veronica\u2019s sophomore year and Sammie\u2019s freshman year, the two lived one floor apart in the same dorm. Veronica insists that \u201cshe\u2019s my best friend\u201d and that she looks up to Sammie, particularly for her work ethic. Sibling rivalries can bring tension, but perhaps because they swim different events (Sammie is mostly an IMer and backstroker), it doesn\u2019t work like that for the Burchill sisters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re each other\u2019s biggest support systems. If she\u2019s having a rough day or I\u2019m having a rough day, we will come to each other with whatever,\u201d Veronica said. \u201cI am so thankful she came to Georgia because I don\u2019t know if I could go through college without her. I know that sounds really cheesy, but she and I are better in the same place than apart, especially with swimming, because we bring out the best in each other.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That hyper-competitiveness was what first made Veronica so successful as a high school swimmer. But as she has moved into her college years, Murray has noticed another attribute in his former swimmer that most great swimmers possess: How she has taken ownership of her burgeoning swimming career.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpending time with her in Indy at the Pro Swim Series, every time that I\u2019m around her now, she\u2019s just more and more mature as an athlete,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThat\u2019s no knock on her. That was the final piece she was missing, the maturity as an athlete, and that continues to grow, and there\u2019s so much more for her there.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Georgia, Burchill is a human development and family science major. One day, she hopes to become a teacher. She’s also a talented amateur photographer, though she insists that’s just a hobby. For right now, though, swimming is the main thing, and Burchill has the pieces to take her career one step further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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