I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.