“This is my third go at being a professional athlete. I swam competitively until I was 19 and in rowing I was fighting for Olympic selection and in both sports I ended up losing a little bit of myself, losing a lot of joy.”

“Not every day is a great day but I know that I will have put in the work physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually to be exactly who I need to be on that start line and deal with exactly what comes my way.”