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In four years of coaching Lilly King<\/strong> at Indiana, Ray Looze<\/strong> can remember two occasions when King cried. The first came a few months after King won Olympic gold in the 100 breast, when the post-Games letdown and the prospect of establishing a new normal in life became too much for the then-19-year-old.<\/p>\n

The other time Looze saw King reduced to tears was at this year\u2019s Big Ten Championships, when the Hoosiers defeated heavily-favored Michigan to win a conference title in their home pool in Bloomington.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never won a team title in anything,\u201d King said. \u201cNot in high school swimming, not in age group swimming, never. The only team thing I would have won before would have been, like, a dual meet. I was really kind of overcome with emotion\u2014after diving, once we realized we were going to win, once it was for sure, after three years of getting destroyed.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

King was teary-eyed on the last day of the meet as Indiana closed in on victory, only to break down completely when she saw diver Jessica<\/strong> Parratto<\/strong>, a sixth-year senior and the only other U.S. Olympian on the Indiana team, in tears herself. King called the title \u201cprobably one of my favorite moments of my career so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the first time this season, Looze saw King embrace a leadership role on the Indiana team, stepping out of her usual place as the point-scorer who modeled both excellence and self-confidence for her younger teammates but rarely vocalized anything. The coach\u2019s voice flushed with pride as he spoke about King\u2019s transformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cLilly has been great at taking care of Lilly, and that\u2019s what great athletes do\u2014they take care of themselves,\u201d Looze said. \u201cBut she really took care of her freshmen and her teammates. I\u2019ve never seen her leadership any better.\u201d<\/p>\n

King still considers herself \u201ca big goofball who likes to have fun,\u201d but she has grown up. The crucible of the Olympics and what came after forced her to.<\/p>\n

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King at the 2016 Olympics — Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

When King thinks back on her experience almost three years ago in Rio, she realizes that \u201cI had no clue what was going on.\u201d She remembers eating McDonalds at nearly every meal during the Games, standing in line for a half-hour each time, and she spent each night exploring the Olympic Village in hopes of acquiring pins from non-U.S. athletes.<\/p>\n

And yet, she won. Twice, actually, with golds in the 100 breast and as a member of the U.S. women\u2019s 400 medley relay. \u201cI had convinced myself that I was going to win, and I did,\u201d King recalls now.<\/p>\n

But the moment that forced her to grow up faster than she had ever planned came the night before her golden swim. After Russia\u2019s Yulia Efimova<\/strong> won the first semi-final of the women\u2019s 100 breast, NBC cameras captured King wagging her finger at a television screen in the ready room showing video of Efimova.<\/p>\n

And after King posted a quicker time to win the second semi-final heat, she told a captive TV audience in a post-race interview that because of Efimova\u2019s checkered history with banned substances, the Russian didn\u2019t deserve to be competing in Rio.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quite literally overnight that I became famous or whatever,\u201d King said. \u201cI remember before my semi-final of 100 breast, I went over to the pool and I had 5000 followers on Instagram. I came back, and I had 30,000 followers on Instagram. It was insane.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then when King returned from Brazil, she realized that seemingly everyone in her hometown of Evansville, Ind., knew exactly who she was. She found that going out to eat with her family was no longer a peaceful experience, and she began wearing a hat or sunglasses in public to hide her face.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Bloomington, it wasn\u2019t really an issue\u2014people would say hi, and that was it,\u201d King said. \u201cBut when I would go home to Evansville, people would lose their minds. They would stop and say, \u2018I don\u2019t mean to bug you.\u2019 \u2018Okay, but you\u2019re bugging me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after the Olympics, King attended an age group swim meet to visit with her old club coach and old teammates. Instead of a relaxing reunion, she found herself pinned up against the wall signing autographs and taking pictures.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time, I was like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m old enough to handle this,\u2019 which I was, but thinking about the kids on our team who are 19 going through that, like our freshman, it\u2019s kind of crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now a senior at Indiana, King will head to this month\u2019s NCAA championships with a chance at another slice of history\u2014becoming the first woman to sweep both breaststroke events in four consecutive seasons. Previously, Stanford\u2019s Tara Kirk<\/strong> won four straight titles in the 100 breast and three in the 200 breast, while USC\u2019s Rebecca Soni<\/strong> won a pair of 100 breast titles to go along with her four 200 breast national championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never thought about the glory of winning eight titles, but it just happened,\u201d King said. \u201cI won my freshman year, and I wanted to keep winning. It\u2019ll be cool, and thinking that I\u2019ll be the first one to do it is also pretty cool. Knowing what I put into those swims and knowing what happened behind the scenes is pretty important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

When she won as a freshman, King became the first swimmer to ever crack 57 in the 100-yard breast with her 56.85. With improvement always on her mind, King expected that she would soon break into 55-second territory. When she didn\u2019t break 56 at her sophomore year NCAA championships, King said of her race, \u201cit sucked.\u201d One year later, after touching in 56.25 for a new American record, King said, \u201cI kind of expected more from myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

That left her senior year, and King decided midway through the season that she wanted to break 56 for the first time in Bloomington at the Big Ten Championships. So she did, touching the wall in 55.88\u2014a whopping 1.41 seconds quicker than the 57.23 that had been the American record when King began her collegiate career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just that feeling of, \u2018Finally, I did it.\u2019 Obviously, 55 is fast, but it doesn\u2019t feel as fast as it should because in my head, I\u2019ve been going 55 for so long. That\u2019s all I\u2019ve been thinking about, going 55,\u201d King said. \u201cIt took a couple months of me telling myself that this was the week that I was going to break 55. It was so in my head that there was no way I wasn\u2019t going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the NCAA championships, there should be little drama in the 100 breast, with King seeded first by 1.86 seconds. Texas A&M Aggies Anna Belousova<\/strong> and Sydney Pickrem<\/strong> could make the 200 breast a bit more competitive, but King\u2019s American record of 2:02.60 is more than two seconds faster than the lifetime best of anyone else in the heat.<\/p>\n

After that, King will become a professional swimmer and turn her attention full-time to long course. Looze expects that once King gets through the transition to the professional lifestyle, which can be tricky, that she will be the \u201cperfect pro.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really cool time to be just turning pro,\u201d King said. \u201cWe have so many new opportunities to swim, between the FINA (champions) series and ISL. We have all these new things that are happening, so I\u2019m kind of excited about that, getting to race more and travel more. I\u2019m excited I finally don\u2019t have to talk to compliance when I need money. It\u2019s kind of a new adventure for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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King admitted that she\u2019s still irritated about a relatively disappointing summer of 2018, when she failed to top Efimova for the top time in the world in the 100 breast and finished second behind fellow American Micah Sumrall<\/strong> in the 200 breast at the Pan Pacific Championships. King\u2019s attitude and focus soured with the knowledge that there was no showdown with Efimova waiting for her at the end of the summer.<\/p>\n

How does she know that slippage won\u2019t happen again when the stakes are bigger? Because King won\u2019t allow it. That\u2019s how she operates. When fully committed to a goal, like swimming the first 55-second 100-yard breast at the Big Ten Championships, she locks in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes down to it, I\u2019m going to swim fast when I need to swim fast,\u201d King said. \u201cI think with the circumstances of the meet this summer, I swam as well as I could. When it comes down to crunch time, I\u2019ll be ready.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But even with all this high-level swimming on the horizon\u2014and the next Olympics just 16 months away\u2014there\u2019s another piece to King\u2019s life right now, a four-hour chunk of her day where that killer instinct is absolutely useless. It\u2019s a chunk of time when no one cares that she is the best breaststroker in the world.<\/p>\n

The last bit of her undergraduate experience no longer includes going to class but rather teaching. King is a student-teacher, working with middle schoolers in physical education. King adores the group she works with, calling these teenagers and pre-teenagers \u201cso much better than adults.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the time when King can be her pure \u201cgoofball\u201d self with no worries about public presentation or someone\u2019s doping history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love that when I go to school, it\u2019s four hours every day where I don\u2019t have to be Lilly King. I\u2019m Ms. King. I\u2019m their teacher. They don\u2019t care that I\u2019ve won this or that. They love that I\u2019m verified on Instagram. I think that\u2019s hilarious. It\u2019s time to focus on other people and not myself,\u201d King said. \u201cIt\u2019s four hours where I don\u2019t have to think about swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n

This real-world experience has provided some perspective\u2014and even a dose of humility. Before the world again encounters Lilly King as a key Olympic actor in Tokyo, she\u2019s embracing this chance to grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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