The love for swimming started real early for Hagerty senior Ashley Boddiford.
“So I’ve been swimming for probably eight years,” Boddiford explained. “I started swimming just recreationally, over the summer then I started getting more into it I just started swimming club and I just fell in love with it.”
“She works hard every single day in the weight room, the pool, doubles every day,” Hagerty swim coach Rick Duran said.
The Naval Academy bound senior has a lot to show for it—this past weekend Boddiford won Class 4A-3 district titles in the 100-back stroke (57.18) and the 200 individual medley (2:08.23).
“I had a pretty hard week last week training and just going in on Saturday and being able to go .08 off my top time of last year I was really excited,” Boddiford said.
“She’s right where she needs to be,” Duran explained. “She’s doing perfect—right where she needs to be for districts. States hoping to come home with a title for her, hope she can get that gold.”
Right now Boddiford has top times in the area for the 100 back and 200 IM and after placing 7th in the back stroke and 3rd in the IM at states a season ago—the goal is to go out on top as a senior this year.
“Honestly I see it as I have nothing absolutely to lose—I have given it my all I am a senior in high school my top finish was when I was a freshman in high school so knowing that I know that anything is really possible.”