Sarah Mortenson '19 Recruiting Profile

I became interested in diving after about a year of doing it. I first started in swim classes and later joined diving because my mother thought it would be fun for me since I was also a gymnast at the time. Then after a while I found that I enjoyed diving, I was decent at it, and found a love for the sport and everything that comes with it. 

I've learned that pain doesn't last forever. Fear and anger help me some. Those emotions have lead me to through things just because I wanted to be better and prove that I can do whatever needs to be done. But doing new skills or even skills I already have that I'm still nervous to do, If i believe that I can do it, and follow all the past physics and logic then I will make whatever dive I believe I can do. 

Academically, I'm not the brightest crayon in the box. And I'm being honest with that because that's not something I can hide. But I still try. I try my absolute hardest to receive grades that I want. 

I want to be the best I can be.  I want the world to see that even though I'm not the best academically, or even at diving, that I'm still willing to put in all the work necessary to get where I want to be. Although a lot of people don't think it's enough, I still want to prove something to someone else.