Nicola Hutchison

Sport:

Swimmer

Biography:

I left home at 16 to follow my coach to Cambridge. After 6 yrs of injury, illness, and ear surgeries I finally came back to form in 2002. I was hit by a bus 2 weeks before the Olympic Trials in 2004. I then walked away from the sport for 17 yrs.

I moved to Northern Ireland the day of the UK Covid Lockdown with two babies and what we could pack in two cars. After miscarriages and other personal events I bumped into an old swim coach. He encouraged me to get back into swimming to clear my head.

I train just 3 times a week in the pool due to work, small children, and the inability to get my ears wet. After 2 yrs of training I am setting lifetime bests. I am new to deaf swimming after significant complications to recent surgery. I now have to race and train with vertigo, nausea, and pain.

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