“Gary Chen ’22 talks about his love of football and swimming”

This teen enjoys knocking people over and being in water, many say “he’s really intense, he works very hard, also is very passionate about a lot of things”- Jonathan Chen.

Gary Chen ‘22, He started swimming at the age of 3 and football at the age of 10 or 11. His interest in football sparked when e saw other kids playing football and thought it looked fun. He soon found out he was really good at it and decided to stick with it. Similarly, his interest in swimming sparked when ‘He started taking swimming lessons at the age of 3, so he learned how to not drown, and he saw the teen swimmers everyday after his lessons, and this sparked his interest in swimming’.

Chen has a lot of experience in football and enjoys it. “I’d say the most fun part was like knocking people over, I mean it feels really good, it makes you feel really powerful, you know,” Chen said.

When asked about his worst experience during football he answered “Last  week we played Xavier and we lost 38 to 0”, he also said that ‘He overcame the experience by listening to his coaches and “flushing” out the experience and focusing on working hard and being better’.

When asked about  his future plans, he expressed that

‘He plans on doing football until he finishes high school unless he gets a D1 scholarship, then he would like to play in college’.

Gary also has a lot of experience in swimming. ‘His best experience related to swimming was winning the 50 breaststroke swimming race’. While his worst experience was  ‘In dubuque, the last meet of the season, which was a big thing, he got second place in the 100 im swimming race and swam a good time but later found out he was disqualified’, When asked how he overcame that experience he replied “Same as football, you flush it and then you move on, because it’s not gonna to last forever”.  And his plans with swimming are the ‘Same as football, he plans on doing swimming until he graduates high school unless he gets a good D1 scholarship’.