Michael Chadwick tries not to speculate on how other swimmers will perform. The rising senior knows what he has to do.
“There’s not really a point to it,” he said. “I can do it all I want, but it’s all about how fast I go. I can’t really worry about what other people are doing.”
The Charlotte, North Carolina, native has been working toward a single goal the entire 2015–16 swim season: making the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Next week, he will find out if his dream will come to fruition at the U.