Jeff Commings' personal story takes readers from his days as a boy growing up in St. Louis, falling in love with the water at four years old and parlaying that into the start of a career in swimming that took him around the world, to two Olympic Trials and the University of Texas at Austin on a full scholarship.
But it is more than a story of his swimming journey. This book
Jeff Commings' personal story takes readers from his days as a boy growing up in St. Louis, falling in love with the water at four years old and parlaying that into the start of a career in swimming that took him around the world, to two Olympic Trials and the University of Texas at Austin on a full scholarship.
But it is more than a story of his swimming journey. This book is about his struggle to live his life as a gay man in a sport that had homophobic undertones. These true stories detail the events he encountered and people he met that helped him live confidently as a gay man in his adult life, find love through many adventures of trial and error, and realize his place in society that, even in the 21st century, still doesn't fully accept the gay culture.
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