By Kennedy Cutler, Swimming World College Intern
I’ve had the opportunity of swimming with two young ladies the last few years, Marissa Marion and Abby Haaksma, swimmers for Eastern Michigan University and Olivet Nazarene University, respectively, who have returned to our shared club team in Rockford, Michigan, to train for the summer. Both girls take their standing as role models very seriously.
Whenever we are home on a break from school, we visit our club team to clock in some pool time and to catch up with old coaches and teammates. At this point in our swimming careers, most of the people who we have trained with during our high school seasons and years on the club team have either graduated or are no longer swimming. We find ourselves seeing new faces and learning new names just about every time we are home. The thing about it is, while we may not know them, they know us. They’ve heard our names, even followed our times through our old club coaches.
Those of us who have been around the sport long enough to have made it to college have an additional weight placed upon us that we don’t always consider – being a role model. It’s one thing to represent your team and to lead by example to the underclassmen in college and even in high school, but it’s a completely different story when you realize there are dozens of younger kids back home who hear your name and look up to you.
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