It opened my eyes to the real world of swimming. It let me compete against people around the world. With my club team I was just continuously racing against the same people.

When I dive into the pool, I go for it. I’m in there at most, five minutes a whole meet, so I give it all I’ve got.

I had a goal this year, to make the NCAA (Championship). I was training for that aspect; that was my motivation.

We usually do a lot better in the Big East competitions. That’s where we show who we are.

Sometimes there’s a fight here and there because a girl beats a guy, a guy will go off on a girl. Sometimes at the beginning of the year and especially last year I was beating...