{"id":471030,"date":"2021-04-28T05:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=471030"},"modified":"2021-04-28T05:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:02:47","slug":"once-an-all-american-swimmer-colleen-fotsch-pursuing-olympic-dream-in-bobsled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/once-an-all-american-swimmer-colleen-fotsch-pursuing-olympic-dream-in-bobsled\/","title":{"rendered":"Once an All-American Swimmer, Colleen Fotsch Pursuing Olympic Dream in Bobsled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once an All-American Swimmer, Colleen Fotsch Pursuing Olympic Dream in Bobsled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even by 2020\u2019s unprecedented standards, Colleen Fotsch<\/strong> found herself somewhere she never would\u2019ve expected last November.<\/p>\n

Instead of home in balmy Arizona, Fotsch folded herself into a carbon fiber bobsled shell, hurtling down the track in Lake Placid at speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour, crammed into a sled behind Olympic gold medalist pilot Kaillie Humphries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the moment, as the adrenaline flooded her system and Fotsch pulled the brake lines as she learned days before that brakeman are required to do, all Fotsch could think about was when she\u2019d be allowed to climb back to the start line and go again.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I got in, I was like, OK, we\u2019re in, this is awesome,\u201d Fotsch told Swimming World<\/em> last week. \u201cAnd then you start going down the track and it was definitely an oh shit moment of like, oh my gosh, what is going on. It\u2019s not like anything else I\u2019ve ever experienced. It\u2019s not like a roller coaster. It\u2019s just so unique.\u201d<\/p>\n

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