A demanding training routine featuring lots of miles and hours in the pool. An academic semester and competition schedule disrupted by a worldwide pandemic. And, most important, a teammate in special need of encouragement and care hundreds of miles away from Hope College. Facing numerous challenges together, head coach Jake Taber and the Hope women’s …
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Delaney Wesolek jumped into the sometimes chilly waters of Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron. Lindsey Case and Jacob Peterson awoke before the crack of dawn to train at private pools in Detroit, Michigan and San Antonio, Texas, respectively. This summer, Hope College student-athletes needed to get creative with their offseason training amid the COVID-19 pandemic. …
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Every one of Hope’s five divers say that they are not really a singular entity and, surprisingly, they say they are not even a team. Instead they say, separately and unprompted, that they are family.
