Megan Burns didn’t want to swim in college.
During her senior year of high school, Megan said she was lazy, unmotivated and unwilling to put effort into swimming and academics. She got into fights with her mom and coaches as they pushed her toward the pool. Megan’s mother Kim had to constantly step in to encourage her not to quit.
One year later, she competed at the 2015 Mid-American Conference Swimming and Diving Championships. Megan raced in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events. She won both.
“I will break records,” then-freshman swimmer Megan Burns told The Spectrum in 2015.