Isabelle Odgers - (Author)

Team IMPACT and Pac-12 Making Dreams Come True For Children With Chronic Illnesses Meet five-and-a-half-year-old Quinn, a current kindergartner from Northern California who loves to scooter, surf and swim. She believes in fairies and hopes to one day stay up late enough to meet one. She is also a me...

Cal's Trenton Julian Seeking Spectacular Finish to Senior Season Entering his senior year Pac-12 championships, Trenton Julian couldn’t wait to race. It was the first time in around a year that the Cal men’s team was set to compete in a three-day, suited prelims/finals meet. “I kind of went into the...

Turkey's Jerome Heidrich Sprinting Toward Dreams Jerome Heidrich fell in love with the comfort and silence of being underwater at a young age. His father was a member of the Turkish National Basketball Team, and athletic prowess has always been a part of his DNA. In the summer of 2015, while Heidric...

Ella Ristic Eager to Pick Up Competitive Pace as Indiana Freshman When Southern-California swimmer Ella Ristic began her freshman year as a student-athlete at Indiana University, she had already sacrificed the culmination of her high school swimming career, prom, and graduation as a result of the on...

Chase Bloch and Meghan Hawthorne Are Living the 'Southern California' Dream After competing collegiately as members of the University of Southern California swim team, Chase Bloch and Meghan Hawthorne are back - coaching the very program for which they once competed. Bloch, a 2013 All-American and c...

Kaitlin Sandeno: Happiness and Persistence Can Produce Best Performances Kaitlin Sandeno dove into the sport of swimming fast and furiously. She began her senior year of high school with third, fourth, and sixth-place finishes on the sports’ greatest stage after competing in her first Olympic games ...

Amid COVID-19, Learning Just How Much the Sport Means Forced closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic ultimately meant that swimmers worldwide were forced to take a step back from the sport that - for many - constituted a large part of their identity. Suddenly, a guilt-free, season-ending break was man...

Gap Year the Perfect Route for N.C. State's Cameron Karkoska When Cameron Karkoska began the college recruiting process during his junior year in high school, he realized that his journey would look a little bit different than what was considered the expected norm. After correspondence with a variet...

Alexei Sancov entered his freshman year at USC as a top recruit. Already an Olympian for Moldova and a former Junior World record holder, he seemed set to take the college swimming world by storm. After moving to the United States with his parents as a 16-year-old, he taught himself English and bega...

As Head Coach of the Tokyo Frog Kings, Dave Salo Eager to Leap Into ISL Season Dave Salo loves fast swimming. Now, he is making the move to the forefront of racing and competition by venturing into the International Swimming League (ISL) as the head coach of the Tokyo Frog Kings. “In swimming, it's ...