Q: What made you start swimming?

A: I think it was just a sport to do. We’re a pretty athletic family, so I played soccer and basketball and stuff like that growing up, so I think it was just another activity to join and it stuck.

Q: When did your passion for swimming start?

A: When I started club, because when I started swimming, I went to a small Catholic private school. So I started swimming for their team for fun. I wanted to do it, and I joined a club team in fourth grade, and it’s just kind of gotten progressively bigger in my life.

Q: What are your future plans for swimming?

A: Right now I’m going through the recruiting process because I know I want to swim in college, so that’s been really exciting to do. I’m just looking forward to going through that experience as a student athlete. [Also] competing in college at a very high level [and] making it to NCAA. It’s a big college meet where you have to get a cut time, and then all of the best swimmers from all of division one will compete at that.

Q: How does it feel to have broken 3 school records?

A: Good, especially this year because this year I broke the 200 IM record, which was something I was really going for last year, and I was close, but I never got it. And then the first meet I was back at this season, I broke it. I think it was just like the pressure king of all just came off and I just swam it as the first one back, and that was really rewarding.

Q: What is your biggest motivation for breaking records?

A: My biggest motivation is probably the team. They are so supportive and encouraging no matter what and I want to do my best for them.

Q: How did you feel breaking records that you’ve previously broken?

A: Again it’s just something that I can use as like a marker to see progress during the season and from season to season being able to watch the progression.