Making the decision to stop coaching didn’t only free up hours in the day for me. When one part of your life is on autopilot, then there are other parts of your life that are also on autopilot as a result. And you don’t necessarily even realize it. Once I became accessible to my family […]
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Comfort Zones Are For Wimps
I first joined the swim team when I was ten years old. I wasn’t good — at all — but I loved it. By the time I got to high school, I was fairly decent. I was All-State my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I swam at Lehigh all four years. I was one of […]
You never know who’s going to inspire you.
Four weeks ago, an eight-year-old boy came to my house for swim lessons for the first time. I had never met him before, and his mom had seen something I had posted regarding lessons on Facebook, and that’s how we ended up meeting each other. This kid was petrified of the water. I am not […]