Vanessa Duenas Quotations

When I dive into the pool, I go for it. I'm in there at most, five minutes a whole meet, so I give it all I've got.

We usually do a lot better in the Big East competitions. That's where we show who we are.

Coach always puts us in the same lane. We train together and we've become better friends. We always hang out. Even though he's a guy, I look up to him because he's a badass swimmer.

It opened my eyes to the real world of swimming. It let me compete against people around the world. With my club team I was just continuously racing against the same people.

I had a goal this year, to make the NCAA (Championship). I was training for that aspect; that was my motivation.