PORTLAND, Ore. – Caitlin Foord is standing above the water, looking down at its unsettled surface from the pool’s highest diving board.
It’s 2011. Germany. She’s only 16 years old, but it’s summer in Europe. She’s certainly not the only teenager enjoying such great heights. Another one, her friend Sam, is standing next to her, ready to try the pair’s next set of back flips from the lofted platform, using every bit of angst in the surrounding adults to fuel their next vault.
“I was a little mischievous kid,” she says, now, thinking back to the person she was eight years ago.