Back In The Pool

It’s funny in my house there’s often a lot of stress circulating with the teens as they have gone from middle to high school to college and my wife and I often say to ourselves to ‘just keep swimming’ like Nemo, which I suppose is also at least part of what recovery is. Having coached kids with eating disorders I can say it’s courage like Caroline Miller and her family featured in a new story in Swimmer Magazine that has helped me learn how to spot them and try to help. Miller stopped swimming in college because of bulimia. She’s now returned to complete in full health and joy 20 years after leaving the sport. Recovery, Caroline said, “is possible” and “you can cultivate behaviors and mindset to live life with joy and acceptance of your body. Her husband Haywood rightly calls his wife “a role model for young women.” I would add that it’s not just young girls and women but also boys and men, particularly young male athletes.

SWIMMER magazine writer Jeremy Fuchs wrote how Caroline returned to the pool as a Masters swimmer recently after a 20 year struggle away from the pool. In the piece, Caroline shared her concerns about the toll that eating disorders are continuing to take on young swimmers, and how many elite athletes have already left swimming because of their eating disorders.

Click here to read the story.