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Let’s talk about nutrition during the quarantine. You may not be training for as long as you’re used to, plus we are all staying inside our houses so we’re not moving around as much as we normally would. I decided to bring back former synchro athlete and Registered Dietitian Katie Spada to help navigate us through this topic. I asked Katie a few questions about whether athletes should change their diet during quarantine and the proper way to fuel for training.

I turned 30 a few weeks age (yikes…) and usually on my birthday I reflect on the previous year and set new goals for the following year. This time, however, I decided to look back on the last decade and write down the top 10 lessons I learned during my 20s since that was the most pivotal time period in my life thus far.mSome of these lessons you’ve probably heard before, but I hope that there are some new ones in this list for you as well - lessons that will hopefully either inspire you or cause you to look at the world differently.

The Olympic Games have never been postponed in the history of the modern Olympic movement, so we are wading through uncharted territory! Because this is such an unprecedented situation, I was curious how athletes from various sports were handling this news and what they thought about the postponement. Even though I typically only write about synchro on this platform, this time I wanted to include elite athletes from a variety of sports and to have a mix of first-time Olympic hopefuls and returning Olympians.

As you have seen on my Instagram, In June I attended the International Olympic Academy (IOA) in Greece, and I want to share my experience and some takeaways.

Over the years I’ve gotten a lot of questions from athletes and parents about what it’s like to do synchro in college and since I was a student-athlete at Stanford University for our years, I thought I would share a few of them here. Collegiate synchro is a great option if you want to keep swimming after high school but don’t want to take the National Team route. I actually did both, which of course is more challenging but was well-worth it for me.