In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim's overwhelmed, financially stressed
parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into
swimming-starting with a nearby motel pool-as a way to keep them
occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began
leaving the kids at home with a sitter while they traveled the
Midwest, where they sold imported wooden ornaments from their
motorhome. But when Kim's six-year-old brother crashed his new
Cheater Slick bike and the babysitter deserted the children, what
started as an accident became a pattern: Mom and Dad leaving for
weeks at a time and the kids wrestling with life's emergencies on
their own. As Kim coped in the role of fill-in mother while dealing
with the stresses of elite swimming, she struggled to shape her own
life. She eventually found strength, competence and achievement
through swimming-and became the second female swimmer to win a full
ride to the University of Southern California, where she earned two
national titles. Swimming for My Life is a peek into the dark side
of elite swimming as well as a tale of family bonds, reconciling
with the past, and how it is possible to emerge from life's toxic
and lifesaving waters.
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