Junior captain’s goal: to unite swim team

KELLY MCKEE STAFFWRITER KMM723@CABRINI EDU

It’s 6 a.m. on a Friday morning and Cabrini’s campus echoes with the footsteps and farewell grunts of those lingering students who have partied to their limit and now seek the comfort and respite of their beds. While these students welcome dreams of the previous night’s party,junior

Lauren Walker, junior, awakens ready to challenge the day with the best start she can imagine-swim practice.

One of the junior captains of Cabrini’s swimming team, Walker is ambitious to make this year count. Swimming competitively since the young age of five, Walker was a member of the varsity team at John Carroll High School in Bel Air, Md. Coming to Cabrini as a freshman in 2002, Walker looked forward to swimming for the college and was disappointed to find no team available but merely a swim club. However for the love of the sport she anticipated joining. Unfortunately this did not go to plan.

Walker’s swimming career was threatened in August 2002 when a road accident left her with a broken collar bone, wrist and foot. The accident meant painful physical therapy and a season out of the water. Amazingly these injuries did not deter Walker from the sport she loved so much. “The accident made