American swimmer Regan Smith is embracing the chase for glory. The 22-year-old gem carved her way to the semis of the women’s 200-meter backstroke earlier today at Paris La Defense Arena. Smith delivered an impressive performance both in the preliminaries and semifinals. While you are keeping your fingers crossed for tomorrow, let’s take you quickly to the other side of the prolific athlete’, educational journey.

Professional sportsmen/women often kick-start their careers at a very tender age, they are often forced to relinquish their studies for obvious reasons. But some turned out to be the jack of all trades, leveling up their bookish expertise simultaneously. Smith has been the prime among them.

 Learn about Regan Smith’s College

The Riptide Rocket, whose name is enough to make her competitors’ hair stand on, started to take over the pools in her teen-age years. However, the Minnesota-born initially pursued her high school education at Lakeville North High School, however gradually, at the age of 10, as her rousing swimming career started to blow up, she had to turn into a homeschooler.

The unmatched dedication later paid off big time through a series of medals and records to her name. However, the academic learning didn’t stop there. Smith jumped into college at Stanford University in the fall of 2021. From here, her journey to excellence commenced, during her rookie years, the 2002-born bagged a handful of Pac-12 and NCAA titles. However, following the 2022-2023 session, Smith sailed toward a broader gateway, the Sun Devils training group at Arizona State University. Under the ablest stewardship of coach Bob Bowman, she only kept on honing her craft, taking it to a whole another level.

That said, the degradation from Stanford to Arizona beholds a story that very few might be aware of.

Why did Regan Smith leave Stanford University and join Arizona?

Smith has always been a bookmaker who can easily take a quick leap of faith if anything intrigues her inner zeal to evade the mediocrity at anyway. Arizona and their coaches and records did that exactly to her. Getting the lifetime opportunity to work under the close monitoring of world-class coach Bowman fascinated her in the first place. Later in an interview, Smith revealed she absolutely admires how strict yet caring his coach is to each of his students, making them more at ease to take the lesson on point.

However, apart from the ineludible allure of Arizona, there has been a dark secret of having her high hopes smashed at Stanford. The young Olympian noted that her journey with Stanford was not as fairytale-like as he initially dreamed of. Without holding any grudge, the Minnesota native felt glad that she was able to move on at the right time and pick up what suited her best. Let us know your take on the educational nitty gritty of the potential history maker in Paris.