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Let's say you chose not to swim in college and you have been thinking about getting back into the sport. Your college may have a club team, but you want something more, like an actual collegiate team.

Transferring schools to start swimming again is not unheard of, and it is what helped Samantha Hinkleman fall back in love with the sport.

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In high school, Hinkleman decided that she would retire from the sport of swimming and go off to college. It was in the middle of her freshman year that she decided that she was not done with the sport, and wanted to continue. 

Hinkleman contacted a school she wanted to swim for and the rest fell into place. By the next year she was back swimming again and doing it with a different passion. 

As a collegiate athlete, she grew into an entirely different person. Her old habits as a non-athlete soon diminished and she was back to being on a strict schedule.

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Hinkleman attributes her work ethic and time management schools to her reborn swimming career, and says she does not regret a thing about transferring.

Find out more about Samatha Hinkleman's story in the video attached! 

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* Originally published on June 6, 2022, by Kyle Haflich