{"id":462996,"date":"2021-02-26T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=462996"},"modified":"2021-02-26T07:18:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:18:03","slug":"in-a-covid-affected-season-swimmers-with-different-perspectives-at-big-ten-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/in-a-covid-affected-season-swimmers-with-different-perspectives-at-big-ten-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"In a COVID-Affected Season, Swimmers With Different Perspectives At Big Ten Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a COVID-Affected Season, Swimmers With Different Perspectives At Big Ten Champs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Big Ten Women\u2019s Swimming Championships look slightly different this year on account of COVID-19 regulations, continuing an already unusual season.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mask wearing, the absence of spectators, the rotation of warmup lanes and the limiting of pool-deck seating to eight athletes per team, plus their coaches, are among the major changes the meet is enforcing to keep participants healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite significantly altering the format of the competition, these sort of guidelines are familiar to and anticipated by swimmers in the Big Ten Conference, who have adapted to prepare for their conference meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big Ten schools have complied with COVID-19 regulations since the season began in fall 2020. Mask wearing during weightlifting sessions and on the pool deck is fundamental, with swimmers participating in frequent COVID-19 testing on their campuses as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of multiple teams that experienced an altered practice schedule. The team split into two groups for practices at the beginning of its season, and swimmers were limited to weightlifting with their roommates.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team\u2019s season was further affected by the construction of their new pool in the Nicholas Recreation Center, which forced swimmers to train at a different location until early October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to senior swimmer <strong>Alex Reddington<\/strong>, the Wisconsin coaching staff prepared the team for racing by running intrasquad meets in the fall and simulating races during several practices. She says that learning to be present and smiling more often at practices have been some of her personal takeaways this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, no practice, or meet, was guaranteed,\u201d said Reddington. \u201cThis helped me to better mentally approach practices and meets and be grateful that I was able to be in the water that day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A junior at Indiana University Bloomington, <strong>Noelle Peplowski<\/strong> said the cream and crimson were able to start practices normally in the fall, with the team foregoing a Thanksgiving break to avoid COVID-19 exposure.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of Indiana\u2019s main focuses this season involve swimmers investing in one another and taking charge of the variables they can control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a team, we always want to be the best that we can be,\u201d said Peplowski. \u201cWe want to leave everything in the pool and be able to come out of the meet knowing that we fought for every race.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peplowski says the 2020-21 season allowed her an opportunity for self-reflection, and gave her a great appreciation for swimming, her relationships with loved ones and life in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Jasmine Hellmer<\/strong>, a junior at Northwestern University, had her January training interrupted by a nine-day quarantine resulting from COVID-19 contact tracing. She says taking things one hour at a time has helped to combat mental obstacles she encountered this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used to dread three or more days out of the water in fear of losing my rhythm and endurance,\u201d said Hellmer. \u201cAfter the events of 2020 and month-long periods out of the water, taking time off four weeks prior to Big Tens suddenly seemed like a minor roadblock.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hellmer says Northwestern\u2019s team has been focusing on creating a motivating and energetic practice environment to combat any dullness or monotony abetted by the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Big Ten teams faced a different and jarring effect of the pandemic. Both Michigan State University and the University of Iowa\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving teams trained through the year with the knowledge that they would be cut from university athletics at the end of their seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hawkeye freshman <strong>Alexa Puccini<\/strong> joined three of her teammates in a Title IX lawsuit against the University of Iowa this year, which assisted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/iowa-womens-swimming-diving-to-be-reinstated-after-university-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent reinstatement<\/a> of the women\u2019s swimming and diving team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cFrom the very beginning of our season we overcame so many obstacles and became closer as a team,\u201d said Puccini. \u201cWe all kept our heads high and trained just as hard, if not harder, then we ever have before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puccini says she hopes to final in an individual event at her first conference meet, and is excited to help showcase her team\u2019s talent and hard work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michigan State University&#8217;s athletic department has not reinstated men\u2019s or women\u2019s swimming and diving, despite the filing of a lawsuit by 11 swimmers and continued advocacy for reinstatement by many Big Ten teams, including the University of Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sophomore swimmer <strong>Jack Hiss<\/strong> says the adversity he faced with the pandemic and MSU\u2019s decision to cut his sport has made him stronger. 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