Let’s go to the back,

Last week I was one minute late, … and when I got to class, the professor had locked the door. She was nice, though. She let me ‘ in.

What are you doing now? … Just going to school and swimming?

I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I’ll probably be able to attend only half the classes, … I’m scared that they’re going to drop me. In the fall of 2002...

I worked there for a year, … I’d taken the year off from school and was doing double-session workouts. I needed something to do with myself between practices, so I worked there four hours a...

Strong biceps and triceps help me slice through the water’s resistance and swim more efficiently,

I’m glad that everyone woke up and got out of bed on a Sunday morning, that’s awesome.

[What is Amanda Beard doing in school, anyway? At her bewildering, Van Wildering academic pace, you might think that her favored stroke is the crawl. Besides, she already has fame, fortune and an FHM cover.]...

My plans are definitely to swim in the 2008 Olympics. I am still training and still competing. So hopefully, if everything goes my way, I’ll be at the 2008 Olympics.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

It feels absolutely amazing