Before Dominique Bouchard left Columbia for Toronto on July 22, she cleaned out her Missouri locker for the final time. The 25-year-old was off to a training camp to prepare for what is almost certainly her last major international swimming competition: the Olympic Games.
Bouchard is one of two Missouri graduates swimming for Canada in Rio. She is joined by Mack Darragh, one of her training partners in the Tigers post-graduate training group.
Though Bouchard’s last practice at Missouri was emotional, she said that she was looking forward to the Canadian training camp.
“Just coming together as a team and focusing on what our goals are and how we’re going to achieve them is always really nice,” she said before leaving for Toronto.