“I used to be known as the girl who swims, but now I’m known as the girl who rows.”
For eight years Mia lived for swimming. She knew she would go far––competing in college or even the Olympics. At school, Mia was known as the girl who swam, and this reputation was well earned. At the height of her swimming career over the summer months, she was practicing 7 days a week, 3 times a day.
It was during these most intense trainings that the pain in Mia’s shoulder started growing. She would come to find out that if she didn’t stop swimming the inevitable result would be surgery. As the smell of chlorine started to fade from her skin, Mia wasn’t sure what was next for her. Until she met Row New York.
