While a 19 year old sophomore things started to click for me on my college swim team. But I still hadn’t won any big races. On the morning of our conference championship’s I woke up feeling great. Thinking about the race later I decided on my plan… risk failure. It paid off, on the last length of the pool I pulled away and touched the wall first! I spent the whole bus ride home on could 9. I was so happy that I really wasn’t thinking about the post race party that would happen when we got back to school.
The party was at a house shared by swimmers and athletes from other teams, so I didn’t know a ton of people there. I spent my first hour drinking and laughing with my friends, hooking up was the last thing on my mind. Then, while waiting in line for the bathroom it happened…