U.S. national team swimmer Ella Eastin woke from a nap in early January 2020 and fainted in her apartment in California. She hasn’t been the same since.
Eastin, a 24-year-old who won 12 NCAA titles at Stanford and made the 2019 World Championships, announced last month that she will not compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials, which are ongoing in Omaha.
Eastin, the third-fastest American in the 400m individual medley in 2019, was a contender to make her first Olympic team. The top two at Trials per individual event qualify.
She spent years training six days a week at Stanford, pursuing an Olympic dream as part of a three-woman post-grad group with Olympic champions Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel.