For most people, a period of 12 hours a day looks like this – they wake up, have breakfast, will work, dine, then prepare in bed.
For Augustana University Bryn GreenwaldtIt’s enough time to become division 2 All-American first team In two completely different sports.
“I sort of rolling myself all night, I did not sleep much and I wrote in my notes on the fear that I had,” said Greenwaldt.
On Saturday March 15, Bryn Greenwaldt woke up at 7:15 am. She made her way to breakfast.
She ate grapes, strawberries, six bacon bands and cinnamon toast. She washed him with apple juice before going to the van take her to the Natatorium of the University of Indiana in Indianapolis.
While she was heading for the van – she thought “today is the day”.
She is about to warm up at 8:45 a.m., said Greenwaldt while looking at the swimming pool preparing to warm up for the first event of the day, thoughts started to adapt.
“I was literally terrified. I was on the verge of tears. I said to myself “What if I don’t do that?” I just couldn’t get on the blocks, really, really use my free will here. I panicked.
She said, although there were initial fears, when time resisted, she felt prepared. Around 10:30 am, Greenwaldt swam the 100 meter freestyle and was sown second before the final.
First event below, two others to do. But the next one was not even in the pool. It’s the high jump. Greenwaldt is also in competition At the Dii athletics championships.
She has lunch and returns to her hotel. But before heading for athletics competition, she wanted to do something for herself.
“Okay, so at the track meets, everyone looks good. Everyone has a makeup and they have glitter, and they have turned and they have hair clips, and they have hair extensions and everyone looks so well,” said Greenwaldt. “I said to myself, I’m going to look (badly), obviously I can’t do anything because I will have to go put a cap and glasses. I can’t wear makeup and glitter on my face. But I wanted to adapt a little, so I did my hair. I straightened my hair and I was very excited about it.”
Greenwaldt caught her bags and the van took her to the athletics room. The competition started at 4 p.m.
Greenwaldt released 5’5 ”during his first try… then 5’7”… then 5’8 ”this time on the second try… Then 5’8.75”. It was a personal and sufficient record for On a distinction from the whole first All-America team. It is linked to the 8th, placing seven places higher than its entrance seed.
She said that if her hope was to succeed and compete well, it was never her goal.
“I did a lot to focus on not putting pressure on myself for the track and that the finals swim just because I knew it would make the experience much less than it could be and I was right there to have fun and I was so excited by the place where I was and what I was doing,” said Greenwaldt.
At 5:15 p.m., Greenwaldt finished, and his teammates and coaches urged her to hurry – the final started at 5.30 p.m. Greenwaldt still needed to warm up to swim and prepare to run. It rolled five miles to the Natatorium IU and went up to the pool immediately.
It entered the water to swim at 6:12, less than an hour after participating in the high jump. She said that she could say that the workload wreaked havoc on her body.
“I said just before going up to do my 100”, it will be the second most painful of my life and the first will be the relay after “”, said Greenwaldt. “And I was right. Honestly, everything is going well for the FIRS 50, and the 50 seconds, I felt so horrible. I said to myself:” Finish the race please. “I got out of the swimming pool and I literally, my legs gave up under me and I fell on the ground several times.”
Greenwaldt went from the second to eighth place, but that provided him in the first team in the first team. She obtained the distinction in two different sports in less than an hour. She finished night with another 100 Longyle on the relay.
She said, taking all this, the experience meant a lot.
“It is really difficult for me to be proud of me, as if I was very easily impressed and proud of others and I do not often feel that towards myself. So it was one of those moments when I said to myself:” Oh my God. That’s it for me, “said Greenwaldt.
March 15 was the last day of competition from Greenwaldt. The previous days, she also became the only woman in the history of division 2 to spend less than 22 seconds in a free 50 m and has become The only national champion of swimming and diving at Augustana University.