Emma Pritchett - (Author)

Motivational Monday: Rest is Needed - Learning the Hard Way Growing up, I was taught that taking time off to rest was a bad thing. I believed that all my hard work and progress would go to waste if I took a day off. Before Covid-19, the most time I took off from swimming in a year was a week for spr...

Motivational Monday: Swimming with Teens Helped Make Swimming Fun Again When I came home from college in May, I was burned out. I knew that if I wanted to hit the goals I set for myself for my senior season, I had to train often this summer. However, I was so emotionally, mentally and physically dra...

Wellness Wednesday: Injury Survival Tips (Physical and Mental) to Make it Through the Aches, Pains and Worse A swimmer's worst nightmare is being told that they are too hurt to swim. That an injury requires rest or rehabilitation in order to prevent it from creating further damage. This scenario mea...

U.S. Olympic Trials: A Collaboration of the Past, Present, and Future Something that made watching the Olympic Trials a little more special this year was seeing all the familiar faces. I’m not talking about the well-known stars that everybody knows. I’m talking about the swimmers I grew up racing ag...

As someone who’s favorite event is the 100 butterfly - to swim and watch - the women’s final of the 100-meter butterfly at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials did not disappoint. It was a thrilling race from start to finish. What I find to be most fascinating about this race is the fact that the top three ...

End of Career Reflections by a Rising College Senior As the 2024 Division III NCAA Championships drew to a close this past March, and I watched my senior teammates swim their last races ever, I was struck with an unimaginable thought.  My career is almost over.  After devoting almost my entire life ...