Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

She has been coached by Todd Schmitz from the Colorado Stars club team since Missy Franklin was 7 years old. S. 06 was faster than the winning time of Italian Federica Pellegrini in the individual 200-meter freestyle final (1:55.

She currently holds the world record in the 200-meter backstroke (short course and long course) and the American record in both the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke (long course). As a member of the U. S.