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When Leah Stevens<\/strong> looked around, she saw her family, teammates and coaches.<\/p>\n

She also took a long look at Avery Aquatic Center, the site of some of her most challenging moments, but a place that has become home to the Stanford senior swimmer.<\/p>\n

Senior day is full of emotions and memories in that regard, and for Stevens, that was no different.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just trying to soak everything in,\u201d Stevens told Swimming World<\/em>. \u201cI tend to get really excited at big meets and I think cheering is my favorite. Senior day was awesome. I think that is all thanks to my teammates and coaches. They made it a really special day. All of the underclassmen decorates our lockers the night before and that is always fun. It was very special and very personal.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the seniors finished the regular season in a special way, winning every dual meet in four years.<\/p>\n

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Ella Eastin, Leah Stevens and Kim Williams. Photo Courtesy: Tony Svensson<\/p><\/div>\n

The special feeling started as soon as the team arrived.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Carl Solder<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe got the ball rolling from there, spent the whole morning together. The seniors continued to get text messages from past teammates. That was super sweet,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cWe are kind of known as the emotional class, and we definitely had the tears rolling. We had super great energy at the meet. We had all of our families there. Once we got the ball rolling, there was no stopping us. Everyone put together really great swims and the atmosphere was so positive. We were on fire. It was fun to see everyone swim for each other. It was emotional afterward. It felt super surreal to swim our last dual meet in that pool after so many great memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course not all of the memories are great, or at least weren\u2019t great in the moment \u2014\u00a0especially in one of the most competitive distance groups in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is actually pretty interesting. Katie (Ledecky)<\/strong> <\/a>was not here my freshman year, so the distance group was me and a senior (Allison Brown<\/strong>). It was hard training, but very similar to what my club team did. I had a really hard time adjusting to everything new in college. So my performance kind of reflected that at the end of the year. I think I added 10 or 15 seconds in my mile and placed 34th at NCAAs,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n

If she thought that was tough, she hadn\u2019t seen anything yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the next year, Katie and Megan Byrnes<\/strong> joined the team. The distance training took a 180,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cThat fall was probably the most challenging training I have ever had. With Katie coming in, the training really ramped up. It was different. I had a hard time adjusting at first. The intervals were harder and everything got harder \u2014\u00a0but I was putting in the work. I kept trying to get a little bit better each day. That fall, I qualified for NCAAs in the mile, first time I qualified that early. From then on my focus was NCAAs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an incredible training partner in Megan. It gave me a lot of confidence knowing I was doing the same workouts as the best female distance swimmer in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

One set stood out \u2014\u00a0and still stands out to Stevens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were doing the exact same workout, and that was awesome. Greg (Meehan)<\/a> didn\u2019t want to create a gap and separate us, he wanted to challenge us. That was awesome and it paid off a lot. My sophomore year, we did eight 300s best average. I was struggling pretty hard through it. At the end of eight, Greg wanted me to do three more. He said he knew I could do better. I told him I couldn\u2019t. I was exhausted. I did another three and did go faster. I was crying in my goggles throughout. He told me he wanted to remember this moment and remember you can push past your limits. I have never forgotten that moment. He proved the amount of confidence he had in me. That carried me through.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThat was a big turning point for my confidence. I didn\u2019t have a lot of confidence in myself my freshman year. I had a lot of doubt. I had always kind of struggled with confidence and didn\u2019t really ever learn how to build it up. It was also about learning to believe in myself. My confidence slowly built over time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevens transformed into an All-American and has been one of the key swimmers for the Cardinal since, helping lead the team to back-to-back NCAA championships.<\/p>\n

She leads them into the Pac-12 Championships this week. She currently has the eighth fastest time in the country in the mile in 16:02.66. Her training partner, Byrnes is third (15:55.57).<\/p>\n

They were both All-Americans with Ledecky last year in one of the most incredible team performances in history. Nearly everyone swam a best time on the entire team.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreg was more happy about the best times versus winning. That was the mindset we had from the very beginning of the season.<\/p>\n

Winning a back-to-back championship was the goal, but it wasn\u2019t our main focus. It was to be the best version of ourselves, which wasn\u2019t just in terms of swimming. It was the kind of teammates we were and students we were,\u201d said Stevens, who is planning on medical school after graduation. \u201cWe wanted to put together the best possible performance we could. We wanted to win that way. I can\u2019t even describe the feeling of every single person swimming lights out. I was one inspiring swim after another.\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t start that way for Stevens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t happy with my 500. I had made the B final the year before. I didn\u2019t make it back to finals, so I wasn\u2019t very happy. But after my race, I turned my attention for my teammates. I wanted to be the best cheerleader I could be. That helped me turn myself around and not dwell on a poor race,\u201d she said. \u201cAll of my teammates really helped me keep that positive mindset. I just had so much fun cheering. Sometimes it almost didn\u2019t feel real, like watching Ella\u2019s 400 IM. I think I cheered so loud that I almost blacked out. And winning every single relay was unreal. The last relay was the cherry on top to honor our seniors.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now Stevens will have to see if a three-peat can be the cherry on top for this senior class of Cardinal.<\/p>\n

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