![]() ![]() Her sister, who she lives with, and other siblings helped pay for her to attend the 2019 FISU Games in Naples, Italy, where she was part of the bronze-medal 4×100-medley relay. While attending the University of British Columbia she was a dog walker and house sitter. She’s worked as a swim coach and in the front office of a physiotherapy office. Over the years Wilm has juggled different jobs while still training. I’ve had to help out with the bills since I was 14.” Wilm has also struggled financially, at one point losing her sports funding. “We had a conversation with her, ‘Why do you want to come back?’ She said, ‘I can beat all those girls.’ Then we went to work.” “That’s a different viewpoint than 90 per cent of the kids out there. “She wrote and said, ‘May I be considered to come back and swim?’ ” said Johnson. Wilm spent three years training in Vancouver, but after just missing the Tokyo Games, returned to Calgary and reached out to Johnson. “Her progress was slowed by that considerably.” “She basically had the use of one arm and still made the finals in 2016 as a young kid,” said Johnson. She still sometimes has trouble holding a pencil. Johnson, who has coached Wilm since she was 11 years old, said the injury hobbled her for several years. “The flags at the U of C pool didn’t have triangles over all the lanes. “That meant I was using my really old scratched up goggles that were pretty dark. “I didn’t have much money so I was saving all my fancy gear for trials,” she said. But during a pre-trials meet held at the University of Calgary she hit her arm on the wall, tearing the ligaments in her elbow. 03 of second off the podium in the 50-m backstroke at last summer’s world championships in Budapest, then swam the morning backstroke heat in the 4×100-m medley relay which earned a bronze medal in the evening final.īack in 2016 Wilm had her sights set on qualifying for the Swimming Canada team heading to the Rio Olympics. It will be her second long-course world championships. ![]() Wilm was second to Masse in the 50 and 200-m backstroke to qualify for the World Aquatics Championships, being held July 14-30 in Fukuoka, Japan. “I’m looking at the result and rewatching the race to see what I can do better and work on.” “Now, honestly, it kind of feels unreal, like it wasn’t me. “It was such a huge confidence boost and such a weight off my shoulders,” said Wilm. ![]() She won the race in a personal best time of 58.80 seconds, her first time under 59 seconds. Wilm staged an upset on the opening day of the 2023 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials, defeating Olympic and world championship silver medallist Kylie Masse in the 100-metre backstroke. It was a matter of more work and belief.” It hurt, but I’ve always truly had the belief this was something that I could do. “I was a little disappointed to see how many people did expect me to quit after I didn’t make the team for Tokyo. “I never want to give up before I’m ready,” said the 24-year-old, who trains with coach Dave Johnson at Calgary’s Cascade Swim Club. While others may have given up on her, Wilm refused to quit. She has persevered through a nagging elbow injury, the disappointment of failing to qualify for two Olympics and scrounging to pay the bills so she could keep swimming. Wilm’s career could be a plot for one of those books. Her body is decorated with tattoos inspired by those books symbolizing protection and victory in battle. That’s about all I can say.One of Ingrid Wilm’s joys is reading fantasy books that tell tales of wizards and dragons. I do not recommend that you waste your time at this location. I was offered a gift certificate for a return trip to the restaurant, but I declined. We ultimately cancelled (after settling up our drinks/hush puppy order with a tip) and came home to cook dinner at 9 o’clock at night. Unfortunately, the manager was not equipped to handle all of the problems of the night coming out of the kitchen. When I tried to get more definition about exactly how long it would take to get our food, there was no information forthcoming. Therefore, that table was being moved ahead of us for order priority. At that point, we were told that there were at least four more tables ahead of us and that a large table had threatened to leave. Once we had been there for an hour and a half, we checked in on the status of our meal. ![]() After ordering, we were told by our server that it might be another hour before we received our food because the kitchen was backed up. After waiting for an hour and 15 minutes, which we expected, we got seated at 7:00 PM, thinking we were about to have a meal. We arrived at 5:45 PM for dinner with our three children. ![]()
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