SSPC: Mackenzie Padington Explains Her Pre-Olympic Retirement

We sat down with Canadian national-teamer, NCAA All-American for Minnesota, and now Swammer Mackenzie Padington , who announced her retirement recently via Instagram . Padington takes us through her reasons for leaving the sport she's been in since age 4, including injury and being unhappy with her current training environment. Padington explains there was an event that happened unrelated to the swim team in Minnesota that left her wanting to leave . She ended up returning to Victoria and training at the high-performance center in Vancouver . She had even committed to swim for NC State after the Olympics . However, once lockdown started and Padington had to return home, things weren't really clicking for her until she ultimately made the decision to step away from swimming. Click here to listen and subscribe on Spotify Click here to listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts Click here to listen and subscribe on Podbean Click here to listen and subscribe on Google Click here to listen and subscribe on YouTube Click here to listen and subscribe on Listen Notes Click here to listen and subscribe on Stitcher Click here to listen and subscribe on iHeartRadio Click here to listen and subscribe on Amazon Click here to listen and subscribe on Pandora Music: Otis McDonald www.otismacmusic.com