Tag: Allison Schmitt
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Michael Phelps, Allison Schmitt talk about battling depression
Allison Schmitt hates public speaking. But the Olympic swimmer shared her story of battling depression in a packed auditorium Thursday night as part of National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day. “I get sweaty hands; I feel like I’m going to throw up. I never want to speak in front of people,†said Schmitt, the eight-time…
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U.S. Olympic Swim Team Practices at Georgia Tech
The 2016 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team practiced at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center July 21-30. It served as their final training camp before the squad flew to Rio for the Summer Games. It also marked the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
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USA Swimming Olympic Team 2016 – Allison Schmitt
Meet Allison Schmitt, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Allison will be competing in the 4x100m and 4x200m women’s freestyle relays.
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Allison Schmitt Chooses Chocolate Milk
World champion swimmer and Michigan native Allison Schmitt teams up with the United Dairy Industry of Michigan to promote chocolate milk and good nutrition for all ages.
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Canton’s Allison Schmitt speaks candidly about post-Olympic depression
Michigan’s own Allison Schmitt is known as the swimmer with a smile, the happy one by the pool. The Olympic freestyler will tell you now that the smile was real, but she was also secretly struggling. Schmitt won five Olympic medals during the 2012 summer games in London. Three were gold medals in the 200-meter freestyle race,…
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Race for Gold: Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt Interview
Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt discuss 2015 and things to come in an interview for USA Swimming’s Race for Gold.
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Michael Phelps Photobombs NBC Bay Area News Crew
See NBC Bay Area A run-of-the-mill local news shoot at a Silicon Valley swim meet became an opportunity for the most decorated Olympian of all-time to photobomb a friend. Michael Phelps photobombed NBC Bay Area’s interview with fellow Olympian Allison Schmitt.
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Allison Schmitt: Pro Athlete – And Pro Napper
Read ESPN Swim, sleep, repeat. We swim from 7 to 8:45 a.m., then do dry-land exercises or weights from 9 to 10. I go home and eat a big breakfast, take a three-hour nap, have a snack for lunch and head back for practice number two. The not-so-rigorous part. After the second practice, I come…
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