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N.C. State’s Katharine Berkoff is a Believer and Riding Confidence Toward Olympic Trials<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since her Omaha heartache three years ago at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Katharine Berkoff<\/strong> has registered significant international milestones each of the last two years. She\u2019s eager to write the fifth and final chapter of a storied college career with NC State this week…and she\u2019s prepared to do her best at the next Olympic Trials in June\u2014all with a perspective and confidence forged from disappointment.<\/em><\/p>\n

Katharine Berkoff<\/strong> didn\u2019t watch the Tokyo Olympics. She didn\u2019t seek out any more than a basic tick-tock of results. She didn\u2019t \u201cthink about it, if I could avoid it.\u201d For most of the balance of 2021, Berkoff processed as best she could the heartbreak of Olympic Trials.<\/p>\n

Berkoff had ridden a wave into Omaha. She\u2019d claimed her first NCAA title in the 100 yard backstroke that spring, helping North Carolina State add a pair of medley relay gold medals. She looked to be carving for herself a place in the American swimming hierarchy, an all-purpose sprinter flourishing in college.<\/p>\n

So when Berkoff finished fourth in the 100 meter back at Trials and managed no better than eighth in the 200 back, there was no sugarcoating her emotions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOlympic Trials 2021 was so devastating for me,\u201d Berkoff said. \u201cI was heartbroken for a long time…. It took probably a good six months for me to feel better about it. But I think it was probably the best learning experience I ever had because it kind of opened my eyes to what I need to do to really accomplish what I want and form a better mindset around the way I\u2019m thinking about myself and my races.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Berkoff has focused on the positive since her Omaha heartache: \u201cI really believe in myself,\u201d Berkoff said. \u201cI\u2019ve been putting in so much work. I\u2019ve got a lot of confidence with long course, a ton more than I had three years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

RISING FROM THE MOUNTAINS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Berkoff\u2019s rise toward stardom\u2014to the point where Olympic Trials could render such despair\u2014benefited more than most from the Olympic postponement in 2020. The native of Missoula, Montana, had long been on the national radar. A big fish in the relatively small Big Sky pond, she has the genes\u2014as the daughter of International Swimming Hall of Famer David Berkoff<\/strong>, who won silver in the 100 back at the 1988 Olympics and bronze in 1992, plus two relay gold medals. Katharine was an international prospect before college, medaling at the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Championships and 2019 World University Games.<\/p>\n

Her freshman year in Raleigh was promising, with an ACC title in the 100 back before NCAAs was postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But the breakout year\u2014perhaps, given her father\u2019s backstroke innovation, the \u201cblastoff\u201d year\u2014came as a sophomore. She won the 2021 NCAA title in the 100 back, claiming the ACC record. She was part of a 400 medley relay squad that set the NCAA and U.S. Open marks, winning both medley relay national crowns. She made the A-final in the 200 back and 50 free.<\/p>\n

Berkoff knows now that even that achievement concealed a lack of long-course training and race readiness that ultimately doomed her Trials. She raced the long-course 100 back \u201cmaybe once or twice before Trials and thought I could just handle it.\u201d But the otherworldly depth of American women\u2019s backstroke is unforgiving. And while Berkoff\u2019s 58.82 in the final might have been enough to make the Olympic final, it landed just fourth among her compatriots, not enough to maintain the second-place position she had held at the 50-meter wall. Instead, Regan Smith<\/strong> and Rhyan White<\/strong> went to Tokyo, from a grueling week in which Smith, as the world record holder in the 200 back, was denied a chance to compete at the Olympics in that event.<\/p>\n

Such is the reality that Berkoff has come to accept as an American backstroker. \u201cIt makes the pressure at Olympic Trials<\/a> pretty crazy-high,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of annoying at times. I wish it wasn\u2019t so difficult, but it does make it so much more rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

TURNING SADNESS INTO WORLDS SILVER<\/strong><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the point in Berkoff\u2019s journey where suddenly everything starts to go right for her. Some have lived that script, absorbing disappointment in one Olympic quad as a lead-in to utter dominance in the next. But that isn\u2019t Berkoff. And with Paris beckoning in 2024, she\u2019s looking to use her practiced resilience as a difference-maker.<\/p>\n

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Berkoff salvaged 2021 with a stellar showing at the World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, with bronze in the 100 back among six total medals, with two relay golds and three relay silvers. She repeated as the NCAA champion in the 100 back at NCAAs in the spring of 2022, the first woman to blast through the 49-second barrier with an American and U.S. Open record of 48.74. She went from strength to strength in long course, destroying the American and U.S. Open marks in the 50 back in 27.12 seconds to get to Worlds. She finished fourth in the 100 back at the Trials meet, but she called the trip to Budapest \u201cone of the most special moments for me in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

It got more special when she returned with silver from Worlds, with only Canadian Kylie Masse<\/strong> and 8-hundredths of a second separating her from gold.<\/p>\n

Seeing the flip side of the Omaha disappointment underscored why Berkoff works so hard for such moments, even among the frustration that America\u2019s backstroke depth can deliver.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s pretty special because it is such an elite group in the U.S., and it makes it so much more challenging, but it\u2019s also that much more rewarding when it happens,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a believer in myself and I really trust the training I\u2019ve done. I\u2019ve been going really fast all year and working really hard for a long time, and I really believe in myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

THE TRAIL TO TRIALS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berkoff\u2019s belief has remained constant, even if results have wavered. She was stung not to win a national title in 2023, as Virginia\u2019s Gretchen Walsh<\/strong> usurped her records in the 100 back. She added two NCAA silver medals in relays\u2014while finishing fifth in a best time (46.87, the school record) in the 100 free and fifth in the 50 free\u2014despite a season disrupted by illnesses.<\/p>\n

She finally broke through in the 100 back at Trials in 2023, trailing only Smith\u2019s U.S. Open record, in addition to another win over Smith in the 50 back. Her reward in Fukuoka was medley relay gold plus bronze in the 100, behind Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> and Smith.<\/p>\n

The busy schedule means Berkoff is carefully plotting her goals for 2024. Written in boldest ink is the one she\u2019s held since age 5, accessible only through Olympic Trials. The NCAA season will serve as a steppingstone, her fifth year already a bonus she didn\u2019t expect, but one she jumped at as soon as it was presented. Raleigh was going to be her home base for 2024 prep anyway, and she could see herself staying there for a run at the 2028 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

Whatever happens in the NCAA pool this year\u2014and Berkoff has been setting quick in-season times\u2014will be the prologue. Most important is that Berkoff knows the swimmer who will get behind the blocks in Indianapolis in June is wiser, faster and more equipped to handle the physical and emotional challenges than that one from Omaha three summers ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a world of difference,\u201d she said. \u201cI knew I had a chance in 2021, but I feel so much more prepared now. I just feel like I\u2019m so much better and handling pressure. Even at World Champs Trials last year, it\u2019s never happened before, but for some reason, I was not nervous before the 100 back. I just knew I was going to make it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel like my mindset has really changed, and even if I wasn\u2019t certain of what was going to happen, I was confident I was doing everything in my power to be the best I could be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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