It is a story of a young woman who was extremely successful at an early age and now is leaving her sport. Disappointed and disillusioned. There seem to be many reasons why her swimming life did not achieve the peak predicted several years ago: her eating disorder, the flood in N Dakota, homesickness, financial worries. From the article: She traces her decline to her decision not to swim in college. “It’s going to haunt me the rest of my life, probably, if I keep dwelling on the past,” she said.