"Move Out The Way! I Want to Lead The Pack!"

Who has ever heard of a freshman leading a team workout? Especially in college! The thought of a younger athlete leading the pack is not very commonly accepted throughout college teams because of the sense of seniority from older kids but at times there are some freshman that dare to challenge the hierarchy, when that happens it tends to be very controversial. I got lucky; my teammates acted more accepting then what other teams would usually act like when a younger athlete or maybe “inexperience” athlete would take leadership in practice, they encouraged me to keep going though they said their “competitive” nature was aggravated and turning on but when they said to me it made me wonder if that’s really a bad thing to turn on your competitive nature? I mean when you start competing within your own practice wouldn’t that help you way even further during real championship competitions? I think so. At the beginning of the year I let the juniors (who are basically the top swimmers in the team) know that I wanted to stay close to them during practices, at first they made it seem to take it as joke that how could someone that hasn’t gone through the practices they’ve done for 2 years now could keep up with them, but as the practices went on and they assigned the lanes, to their surprise they saw that I could keep up with them but just recently I tried to lead the lane, it was extremely hard but I’m sure it’ll pay off at the end.