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Lauren Hew, Izaak Bastian Trace Path to Caribbean Stardom via Florida State<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lauren Hew<\/strong> has represented the Cayman Islands at international meets since she was 14 years old. Through two Commonwealth Games and five World Championships (three long-course), she\u2019s gotten used to being one of the few members of her team, accustomed to what it takes to blend into the larger groups on deck or during warmups.<\/p>\n

Since she was 15, there\u2019s been at least one familiar face she can expect to see, even if he\u2019s not wearing Cayman colors.<\/p>\n

\"Izaak

Izaak Bastian; Photo Courtesy: Florida State Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

Hew and Izaak Bastian<\/strong> have traveled similar paths to get to their junior years at Florida State. Both represent small island nations, Bastian calling the Bahamas home. Both travel to many of the same meets, from the regional Caribbean contests to events bringing together remnants of the British empire, ascending to the cream of the competitive crop of their nations from their mid-teens. Both attended Saint Andrew\u2019s School in Florida, Hew as a boarder, Bastian as a native of Boca Raton.<\/p>\n

And both juniors could go from spending the spring in Tallahassee to the summer in Tokyo, representing their countries on the international stage.<\/p>\n

The commonalty of their paths is something they\u2019ve grown to appreciate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew (Bastian) and there were a couple of other Caribbean kids that were at the same boarding school that were swimmers,\u201d Hew told Swimming World<\/em>. \u201cEven just going into boarding school, they made is so much easier and made it feel more like home. Swimming high school with them and getting to travel across the Caribbean to meets with them was so much fun. And to go to Florida State, we have each other to kind of go through the process with, starting college swimming and a lot of the times, we go to big meets and we have each other to hang out with.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome to have him kind of along the journey with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marooned since March<\/h4>\n

The athletic challenges of 2020 haven\u2019t been easy on anyone. The distance separating Hew and Bastian from their home countries have added complications.<\/p>\n

Hew figured she\u2019d be back in the Cayman Islands for a few weeks when she returned in March. She\u2019s been home ever since, the territory\u2019s airports closed to all but repatriation flights. Hew hopes to be on one of the first flights out in January to Miami, but she\u2019s missed the fall portion of Florida State\u2019s season.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Florida State Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

In the longest stretch she\u2019s been back home since starting at Saint Andrews, Hew is one of the oldest swimmers around, making it hard to ramp up her training. That’s a departure from her time in high school under legendary coach<\/a> Sid Cassidy,<\/strong> who she credits with not just fostering the open-water sensibilities that come naturally but also understanding the international demands on training and competition for her and Bastian, and certainly from the immersive work she’s able to put in at Florida State.<\/p>\n

Facilities in the Caymans aren\u2019t conducive to the kind of training she\u2019s used to, so she\u2019s had to get creative to make the extra year to Tokyo<\/a> work for her.<\/p>\n

In the Caribbean, that means turning to open water. She\u2019s taken to triathlons, joining with her friend Dominic Dyer<\/strong>, a senior track & field runner at Columbia<\/a> likewise separated from college (in his case, due to the Ivy League\u2019s cancellation of the winter season<\/a>). Hew has taken part in open-water races, winning one in October<\/a>. In June, she and two others did an 8.46-mile triathlon<\/a> capped by a one-mile swim to protest racial injustice in the United States, the number signifying the amount of time that George Floyd<\/strong> was pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer leading to his death.<\/p>\n

Simplicity in her routine hasn\u2019t been a drawback.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I got home in March, the pools closed down,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve been swimming in the ocean a lot, and it\u2019s just been nice to be in the water pretty much every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hew has made it work. A sprinter by trade, she was in the mix for the Seminoles relays last year. She swam the 50 and 100 free at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju as well as on the 400 mixed relay. That swim opens the possibility for a universality spot in the Tokyo Olympics, and it\u2019s how she\u2019s gotten to her impressive array of international meets.<\/p>\n

Back from the Bahamas<\/h4>\n

The NCAA shutdown last spring hit Bastian a little harder. As a freshman, the breaststroke specialist had been part of Florida State\u2019s 200 medley relay that finished seventh at NCAAs and third at ACCs. He also swam in the 400 medley relay at NCAAs.<\/p>\n

As a sophomore, he was supposed to swim both relays, each silver medalists at the conference championships, as well the 100 breast, fresh off a personal-best 52.36 at ACCs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While that change was disappointing in the moment, hindsight has softened the blow.<\/p>\n

\"Izaak

Izaak Bastian
Photo Courtesy: D’Vel Photo\/Jeremy Esbrandt via Florida State Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI was a lot more disappointed when I first found out it wouldn\u2019t happen,\u201d Bastian said. \u201cI was really excited. Being a sophomore and being able to make NCAAs in an individual event was a big deal for me. I was very happy about it. But once I took a step back and realized what was going on around me, I kind of got over it, honestly. I realized there are bigger things in the world, and this is one of them. I\u2019ve got to roll with the punches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bastian\u2019s focus soon shifted. He went home to the Bahamas for part of the summer but was able to return to Tallahassee, first thinking he\u2019d have at least one in-person class but happy to be with the team even when that went online. He\u2019s competed in the fall segment of the schedule, and while it hasn\u2019t translated into personal-bests, he\u2019s happy. He doesn\u2019t feel \u201cas deep\u201d in his training yet, but given the lull of last spring, it could be much worse.<\/p>\n

Bastian\u2019s path to the Olympics is less certain. He competed in the 50 and 100 breast at Worlds last year, the latest in a spate of international meets. For Bahamas, the men\u2019s universality spot<\/a> likely comes down to either he or sprinter and his good friend Jared Fitzgerald<\/strong>, formerly of Indiana and now the University of Tampa.<\/p>\n

If this year has taught him anything, whether at Florida State or international competition, it\u2019s to not look too far ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to take it day by day because literally things change every week but you just don\u2019t know until it happens and you can\u2019t plan too much,\u201d he said. \u201cMy focus right now is, show up for practice and do my best, but then I know I\u2019m going to have to perform at some point next year. I know it would be a good idea to have a set date, but even if I said, \u2018I\u2019m going to go to this meet in March,\u2019 who knows if that meet is going to happen? So I would rather not really focus too much on the long term and get disappointed when that meet doesn\u2019t happen and I had a whole plan built around it only for it to fall apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I think I\u2019m learning to adapt better and take it day by day and work with what we have at this moment, because that\u2019s all we have that\u2019s guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Hew and Bastian carry a profile in their home countries<\/a> that not many of their Florida State mates can relate to. Even if they aren\u2019t necessarily the fastest on the team, their nationalities offer chances to shine internationally that many Americans won\u2019t get.<\/p>\n

Bastian says it\u2019s not something they talk to much about, he and Hew not wanting to accentuate the pressure of it and instead sharing a more silent understanding. But through their experiences, for nearly a half-decade now, they\u2019ve seen it first hand with each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s just having a friend there, not going there without anybody you don\u2019t already know,\u201d Bastian said. \u201cEven though I\u2019m traveling with Team Bahamas and I know the people on those teams, it\u2019s still a little different to have somebody that you see every day there. It feels a little more comforting. Obviously I know the guys and girls from Team Bahamas, but I don\u2019t see them every day. So having someone like Lauren there is always a good experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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