By AL STOVER
Staff Reporter 

Norman's passion for swimming leads to success

 

Last updated 10/9/2014 at 4:17pm

Bob Norman

Cheney girls swimmers Alexis Schmidt, Kaylie Watters, Brittany Meyer and Makenzie Norman qualified for state competition in 2013.

At the Sept. 13 Ephrata swimming jamboree, Cheney High School sophomore Makenzie Norman was checking in with her coach Jennifer Hochwalt moments before she was going to swim the 100-yard backstroke race. Hochwalt pointed to a time on her paper and said to Norman, "you see that? I want you to beat that."

Norman finished the race in 1 minute and 5.52 seconds, breaking a 15-year-old Cheney record.

"I could hear my team screaming," Norman said. "I think they were more excited for me than I was."

After the race, Norman ran to her dad.

"I told him 'it was for him,'" she said.

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