1. When coach says that we can wear fins and paddles for the main set…
2. When someone in your lane keeps touching your toes but refuses to pass you…
3. When coach says that it’s “starts and turns” day at practice…
4. The difference between a great dive and a bad dive are just a few degrees…
5. There is nothing quite like getting a lane all to yourself…
6. That it will take a natural disaster for coach to cancel practice…
7. That the most decorated athlete in the history of the Olympic Games is a skinny swimmer from Baltimore…
8. While we may have different backgrounds, goals, and events, our fears in the pool are universally the same…
9. We are unafraid to show a little skin…
10. Even though we have trained in the vicinity of the synchro team on occasion over the years we still don’t completely understand what is going on over there with all the spoon banging and costumes…
11. Even our ideas of romance and love involve the water…
12. We like to think that our swimming is usually done as beautifully and gracefully as this…
13. The satisfaction that comes from nailing your swimming taper just right…
14. Crushing that best time…
15. And the best feeling of all, swimming faster than you ever thought imaginable:
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