By Sophia Chiang, Swimming World College Intern
I started swimming competitively for my local summer swim team at the age of five. My mom likes to joke that’s when she started swimming too. But, to be honest, it’s really not a joke. She may not have been putting in the hours of training, but she was putting in the hours in a different way: driving me to and from practices, meets, and equipment fittings all the while making sure I was eating enough, sleeping enough, and finishing my homework on time. Add on that she actually has a full-time job that is not even related to swimming, and I still can’t fathom how she got (and still gets) it done.
When you think about it, that’s a lot more work than just showing up for swim practice. People wonder where swimmers get our commitment to practice from. A good bit of it may come from coaches who push us to show up, or our own inner ambitions to become the best competitors that we can be, but a lot of it comes from watching our parents commit to our goals, too, and realizing that their sacrifices mean that we need to commit as well. That we’ll leave 110 percent in the pool, every day. That we’ll respect ourselves and our teammates. That we’ll become the kind of athletes that lead by example.
So, yes, I do believe I got it from my mom.
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