The Making of an NCAA Legend: A Deep Dive with Beata Nelson

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I am thrilled to be joined today by reigning nty two A Women Slimmer
of the Year Beta Nelson. Beta had a very impressive club career before heading
to the University of Wisconsin, where she had an outstanding college reign, but
an unfortunate ending to her final nty twas as they were canceled due to COVID
nineteen. Nevertheless, as impressive accolades consist of three time Anti TWA champ,
seven time All American, five Big Ten championship titles, American US Open ANTI
two A school record holder, and the only American to break fifty seconds and
one hundred year backstrop six times. And that's just a brief overview. Vita,
Welcome to Behind the Blocks. Thank you so much for joining me.
Hello, I'm so glad to be here. Oh it's so fun to connect.
Okay, first off, to straight off the bat. How are you
doing and how are you spending your days? I know this is obviously a
very bizarre time, but especially for athletes being out of their typical routine.
How are you holding up. Yeah, it's obviously a change of pace.
Things have kind of slowed down. Obviously there's no pool access where I'm at,
so I'm spending most of my days just finishing up school. I have
about two weeks less of my college academics, which is really exciting, very
exciting. Yeah, I can't wait for that, for a little break from
school. But yeah, I've been just been doing a lot of land cardio,
a little bit of running, a little bit of biking, some at
home body strength circuits that my coaches have been giving to us to do to
keep active during this period of no swimming. But it's been a lot of
process. Every day is kind of you take it as it comes, and
some days are better than others. And that's just kind of where we're at
right now. So absolutely, Now do you enjoy those land workouts? I
know a lot of swimmers just really like to be in the water and the
water only how do you do on land? I do? Okay, you
know, I've managed. It's definitely not my favorite. I absolutely am like
dying for the water right now. I would like swim in a bathtub if
tactical, like I just I don't even care. I like drove by the
lake the other day on my way down here, and I was like,
could I just like go swim there? Like it's probably disgusting, but I
just want to swim and feel it again. But you know, I'm I'm
managing. I'm pretty prone to injury on land, so we're just trying to
be super careful of not you know, causing anything that would inhibit my ability
to get back to swimming once that kind of starts up again. So you
know, just taking it easy and making sure I get the work I need
done. But you know, I missed the pool for sure. Absolutely.
Now are you spending most time on campus? Are you at your parents or
are you spending the majority of your time right now? Yeah, I for
the last three weeks. So once like MC double as was done, it
was canceled. We kind of like had to figure out a game plan.
Most of the team just took their time to you know, adjust to being
back at home wherever that may be for them. And there was a pool
open for about two weeks ish, but it was in Milwaukee. So me
and my good friend Ali McHugh, who's a pro who swims here, took
the trip every day down to Milwaukee, and then that when the you know,
state order for stay at home came down, we had no choice in
that pool close and so we both kind of went our separate ways. She's
in PA right now, and I went home to about twenty five minutes off
of university campus where my family lives, and I've been there. But I'm
kind of transitioning back to downtown to kind of finish up classes, and yeah,
just try and get a little bit of change of scenery to try and
make it through these strange times. But yeah, I can't help but imagine
having you know, that distraction or that task at hand of graduating in two
weeks, that's got to be a little bit helpful right now. Yeah,
definitely. Honestly, I'm kind of sad I'm not in more credits if I'm
being supervised. I you know, it was nice during the swim seasons.
I'm only in half of a full like semester because I only needed three credits
to graduate, and I added on another three because I was like, I
might as well keep myself a little bit busy. And so now I'm like,
geez, I wish I had more to do because I have so much
time on my hands. But um, you know, I they're both classes
that are pretty easy to do online. I have one that's a lecture like
twice a week that I actually have to meet like in person on like a
video chat with my class. It's only like twelve people. And then the
rest of it's just like I don't know, working through that and trying my
best to get grid grades. As I finished college, which isn't too bad
with only two courses to finish. Awesome and early congratulations to you. I
know that's going to be quite defeat to celebrate. At least you have,
you know, those those goodbye coming your way. But I just can't imagine
that emotional rollercoaster, emotional roller coaster that you had to have experienced coming to,
you know, the end of your senior year, coming off such a
great Anty two as your junior year, getting all fired up ready to go,
and then obviously with the pandemic hitting and anti tai is getting you know,
canceled. Basically, it was the week you're supposed to leave, right
It was like the Thursday before we were going to leave on Sunday, so
it was like three days before we were supposed to I cannot even imagine do
you mind time talking us through that and what that was like for you emotionally,
and and how you're coping with that afterwards, and just kind of that
how you mentally move on. Yeah, it's definitely difficult. I'm not even
going to sugarcoat it. Um uh. I was really devastated when we got
the news because I had some huge goals for NC doubles and I had not
shaved. I was wearing an old suit at conference. I was not rested.
You know. I was there to score points through my team and have
fun and you know, do what I could to contribute to our team success
and our programs, you know, legacy. But you know I wanted to
go to MC double a's and kind of break barriers that I realized we're in
my grasp last year. So you know, the roller coaster of emotions that
happened leading into MC double as as it is without the pandemic is kind of
crazy. You know, you go through the coople. Am I racing against
Am I going to be all right? Like I don't feel so great.
This paper is making me feel strange, Like am I going to perform well?
And you know the pressure of you know, I had such a great
meat last year, like what is this year going to be? And you
know, I had worked through all of that and was getting so excited to
race and just go out and have fun and finish off my career with some
great ladies. And you know, we got a text from head coach Uri
and he was like, Hey, we will not be getting in the pool.
We will be having a team meeting at two o'clock, like, we'll
see you there. And we had obviously seen that the NBA had canceled their
season and we were like, oh geez, like what does this mean for
Army, Like if if professional sports aren't continuing, like how like how are
we going to be affected by this? And we were supposed to do pace
that day. I was super excited. I had coffee in me, I
had norma TechEd my legs. I was like ready to go. And Coach
Rry was like, yeah, so the Big Ten has suspended and canceled all
competition in season for the remainder of spring. And I was just like I
was honestly just like in shock at first. I like wasn't processing it.
I'm sure, and then it kind of hit me that it meant that like
I wouldn't be swimminggainst the double as I didn't know what the foreseeable future was
going to be. Like I you know, it was just it came out
of no where. It to me because I was just trying my best and
with my coaches and teammates to act as if everything was normal even though things
weren't normal, and so I was really upset. I had some really great
moments in my coaches after they just like, I don't know, I think
they knew what I wanted to achieve at NCAA's as a meet and just hoped
I could finish my college career that the way that they wanted and the way
that I wanted. And we were all pretty heartbroken. And I had a
few seniors there with me, boys and girls. We were just kind of
sat together and were like, wow, like these last four years just kind
of like came to an abrupt clothes and we didn't really have time to process.
So it's been weird. I've had days where, like I think the
first two weeks after I kind of just like pretended it didn't happen and just
moved on with life and just tried to live each day. And you know,
be okay with and realize the gravity of the situation. And you know,
it's easy to put in perspective when I have a mom who has like
a really who is at high risk to not be able to fight off something
like COVID if she contracted to herself. So it's like, you know,
it's easy when you're around people and you're like, okay, imagine if my
family was affected by this, Like no event, no metal, no race,
no nothing is worth that. So that was it. And then there
are certain days where I kind of like reminisce and like look back at pictures
or videos or you know, somebody says something and it kind of triggers me
and realizes that like I'm not gonna have that moment, or I'm not going
to walk at my graduation, or I'm not going to swim at Olympic trials
this summer. Like there's so many things that like I was looking forward to
that aren't going to happen. But we all know that. I mean,
at the end of the day, it's just putting it in perspective about how
serious this really is and realizing that I am lucky enough to continue my career
professionally in the start and that swimming is not over for me. Well,
I mean everything you just said it gave me the chills. It's like heartbreaking.
I can't even imagine what I would be like in that situation. But
the part that really got me is when you're speaking about your mom. Obviously
we both have moms that have very compromise immune systems, and I think you
just really nailed it. You know, it's bigger picture. It's more than
a swimmy, it's more than the medals. And when we take that big
picture perspective, I think that helps us cope. Right, we can move
on to what's next. So, speaking of what's next, how is that
game plan coming together now with your coaches? Now? Is that all I
set forward on Olympic trials or do you guys have something else or maybe you
don't want to share. So what is it that your goal is going to
be moving forward? Yeah? I right now, it's focus is on you
know, I am committed to be a part of the ISL moving forwards,
which is super exciting and that's something I'm looking forward to. But I think
obviously my mindset now that my colleegic season is done, is to try and
make an impact more on the world stage, and my next opportunity for that
is Olympic Trials. So you know, my coaches and I have been communicating
it, you know, back and forth, and obviously we don't have time
in the pool right now, but we're just trying to p per mentally and
get strong enough to be ready for when pools are open to put our shift
in mindset there. So I'm super excited. I was kind of building a
little bit of momentum long course training and I had a really great meet this
past this past year, and I was I was getting excited for Olympic Trials.
But now I'm a little bit even more excited because our new facility will
be finished and I'll have almost a full year in a long facility, which
I have not had for a very long time, right, So it's super
exciting. You know. It's obviously changes the game plan, it changes the
timeline, but it actually works in my favor to just get a little bit
more time training long course before the meat happens. So I love that.
And that's something that I've been you know, speaking to simmers about. It's
like, if you can just focus on the positive and what you just said
you have another year to get better, you have another year to prepare,
And I feel like if we just change that mind shift, you know,
the mind is so powerful, that can be kind of that silver lining.
Trying to find that silver lining moving forward. But before we move, Floord,
I would be remiss not too. I mean, we got to take
a trip down Emmilane to your junior empty toys, because, oh, my
goodness, that was like an incredible mind blowing meat where you sweep all three
of your individuals, the two hundred I am the hunterback, the two unter
back, the second fastest performance ever in the two undred, I am broke
every record of the book for the hundred, back the NY two A record,
and then back. I mean, my goodness, Beta, what was
that? How was that emotional high? I mean, I feel like that
just hadn't been the most incredible experience of your college career. Not to put
words in your mouth, but I feel like any swimmer would look at that
and be like, dang, I wish I could have gone through that.
Yeah, it's pretty safe to say that was a really special weekend for me.
Um I. I think I can attribute it a lot to the support
system and I had around me and the mentality I had going into the meat.
I think I the last year. The year before my sophomore season,
I had, I had a great NCUBA meet. You know, I was
All American in all three races. Um. I just missed out on an
NCAA title one hundred backstroke by like point one or something. Um. And
you know, uh. I watched Ali Easton break the American record in the
tuna am and I was like, how in the world could somebody go a
one fifty in the tune And I am back insane right absolutely. I watched
Kathleen Baker break one forty eight and break the nc double A record in the
tutor backstroke, and I was like, are we kidding? Like who are
you people around me? And then I came back, you know, I
was. I was pretty intimidated either year before my freshman year. I obviously
wasn't in physical or mental shape to be competitive early in college swimming. But
you learn from it, and I'm really grateful I had the opportunity to grow.
And I don't think I would have been where I was my sophomore year
if it hadn't been for my freshman year. And so like, wow,
I'm making so many steps. But I was so intimidated by those girls.
I didn't really felt like I belonged. I felt like I needed to prove
myself that I belonged to be there. And my junior year, I was
like, you know what, like I'm just gonna go to this meet and
have fun. I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm gonna go out there and
remember why I swim, because I love to race, and so I don't
think there was even a moment where like I got, I got. You
know, nerves are obviously expected at to meet, like I was handeling them
into excitement, and there was never a moment where I was having self doubt.
There was never a moment where I was like I'm afraid of this or
I'm scared. You know, I ripped a suit like ten minutes before I
saw one hundred backstroke and I didn't even blink an eye. It was the
weirdest thing. My coaches were like freaking, I don't know, it was.
It was crazy. The first night. The first night was totally unexpected.
You know, I went into the tuner and I am just hoping to
keep keeping the race. You know, I had been swimming really well on
that event the whole year, and I went the best time at big tens
and I was like, wow, one fifty two is a great time,
Like I'm super excited. I can be competitive, and I mean that was
the best time by like almost two seconds. So it was really just I
attribute that to who I was racing against and me fighting as hard as I
can and just I don't know, having fun and being excited and letting the
adrenaline kind of take control. I kind of blacked out during that race because
I didn't know where I was. I looked behind me and Ella's like,
head is behind my feet, and I was like, what is going on?
I get to the wall. Yeah, it was crazy, and I
rode that momentum the whole way. I was dancing laughing. I had the
best roommate, mine of my really good friends and teammates, Lily Hosack was
my roommate at that meat and she did such an awesome job at just like
making the environment fun. And that's so important is to just like enjoy yourself
at those meats, you know, because a lot of the hoop law of
the meat can kind of get to you, you know, You're racing against
the fastest girls and country who you've seen swim fast through meat results or through
video or through word of mouth, but you're like they're with them, and
everybody sum so differently, and you never know what's going to happen at those
meats, if somebody is gonna, you know, swim faster than their seatime
or slower than their sea time. You just kind of had to focus on
yourself. And I did a really great job at just swimming my own race,
like one of my favorite races I've ever swam, like just from watching
it back and just seeing how well I swam my own race was a tuner
back strop because I was losing that race the last like the one one fifty
maybe I was still flipping behind Taylor into the last fifty of the race.
Yeah, it was incredible. I mean it was really cool because like normally
I would I think in previous years or just like time pass, I probably
would have freaked out and like gone out too fast and maybe not had the
legs to hold on. But I swam that race down to the kicks,
ARMStrokes, down to like the smallest details the way that I knew I could
execute it and I got my hand there first, and it was so cool
to just be like, you know, all the time my coaches say,
like focus on your race plan, focus on your execution, focus on the
like that is so key because if you focus on what any someone else is
doing, you can't control that, so you're just throwing off everything you've practiced
and planned. So I don't know, I'm I was in awe of like
myself, like looking back at how well I handled that meat to be able
to like keep the keep the focus and you know, finish it the way
that I did. And I'm really glad, even though I don't get my
senior and c doublea's, that I got to finish with a meat like that
as like my capstone for like all the work in practice, some time put
in during my college career to kind of have a meat that I get to
remember like that. So if you could see you right now, I have
the biggest smile on my face because I swear like you're saying everything that.
When I think of my favorite meat, it was the two thousand and four
Olympics, and it was I had the same mentality, It's like, Okay,
I'm here to have fun. I'm grateful to be here. The last
couple of years have not gone well. Just enjoy yourself and just like remember
why you did the sport. And then I always kind of like might give
back to other young athletes is like you can't control the uncontrollables, like what
other people are doing. Just do your own thing and stay your own in
your own lane. And it's like everything you're saying, it's like everything that
I experienced that like I call like my fairy Tales with me, you know,
so hearing that it's just so refreshing, and I think it's something that
you know, the younger generation needs to hear more often. But also current
swimmers are current athletes because a lot of times we forget why we started the
sport, or we let the outside nerves creeping or other people's voices creep in,
and when we just stick to why we're doing it and enjoying it.
So I'm just over here loving everything you're saying, and it just reminds me
so much of like my fairy Tales with me. And then another similarity that
we I think we both share is that we both had success at a young
age. And I would love to talk to you about that, because you
know, I feel like that's challenging. I mean, when you were in
high school, you were breaking national high school records and state titles and doing
really impressive things, and then you come into your freshman year with all these
expectations. How was that like for you? Did you feel overwhelmed stress?
I mean, You're coming in to Wisconsin kind of like you know, big
dog on campus, already being so accomplished at such a young age. How
did you handle that transition. I'm gonna be straight up, I'm not I
didn't handle it very well. It was tough. It's hard. Yeah,
I have a lot of things going on in my life at the time.
I mean, high school was really you know, my junior senior year of
high school. I mean I was obviously really competitive and elite at like a
high school level. But once I hit my junior senior year, I kind
of realized that I could make an impact in college, like immediately wherever I
would go. Oh and so that's a lot of pressure. And I think,
you know, sometime does its rankings and all these things, and I
think I fed into that a little too much and thought like I was disappointing
so many people, or disappointing all these expectations that everybody had for me.
And you know, I've realized that you have to understand that circumstance isn't always
going to be ideal. You know, I was one hundred and thirty pounds
coming into college. I my mom had just been diagnosed with stage four breast
cancer. I was a man. Well, I think that like a little
bit out of control in the way that like I just kept relying on trying
to please other people or get validation that I was doing okay, and like
nothing was working out because I wasn't swimming for the love of the sport.
I wasn't swimming for myself. I wasn't swimming for anything but just feeling like
I belonged somewhere, And that is just it's a horrible feeling because you never
feel full, You never feel like you're really accomplishing anything, because all you're
trying to do is get acceptance, and you know, approval from people who
aren't one aren't necessarily willing to give it to you, and two, like
if you're not doing it for yourself, you're never going to be successful in
the sense that like you're never going to actually be confident enough or proud of
who you are to just like be okay with where you're at. So you
know, I'm it was horrible year for me, but I'm not afraid to
talk about it, because, as I said before, like I really don't
think I would be who I am or have learned the things I have without
having gone through a period of like darkness or a period of what some people
may consider failure on my part of swimming. I think like those are some
things that if you don't accept and you don't work through and you don't understand,
they can kind of follow you everywhere. And I wasn't willing to let
that continue to be my story, and so I kind of let that just
be a stepping stone into where I've kind of taken myself as a person and
as an athlete. And you know, I think it's cool. You said,
like the last couple of years haven't gone very well, and now I'm
just gonna have fun. Like you have to recognize, like those years were
years of growth and learning, and like they sucked and I didn't enjoy you
know, losing or not being as as great as I wanted to be.
But maybe I wouldn't be where I am or have achieved that fairy tale meat
if I had never gone through what I did. So you know, it's
it's all a learning process. It's all about growth. I kind of just
take everything that comes my way that seems to be a challenge as an opportunity
to grow. So, yeah, that's awesome. I so appreciate you being
so raw and so honest and so open. And again it's a very very
similar, same thing with me. A freshman year just did not go well
and things weren't happening in the right direction for me and put on some weight
and things are hard, but then we figure it out, right, and
then you learn and then you get better. And you know, I keep
pulling similarities we have, but something that we're not very similar with I am
talking through the two thousand nineteen Student Athlete of the Year at Wisconsin, I
mean, Bida, that's super impressive. I was not the best academic student,
I mean I got by, but to get student at of the Year,
I mean, that's so impressive. Congratulate relations to you. I would
love to hear your advice for younger athletes or even athletes in college right now,
how to manage being a student athlete is what is your words of wisdom.
It's hard to balance take time. I think you have to be patient
and learn the ways that work best for you to be able to manage everything.
You know, my advice is like pretty general, just because it's hard
for me to give advice to people who are in you know, everybody studies
differently, everybody manages stress differently. Everybody needs a certain amount of sleep or
a certain amount of nutritional needs for their own individual success. But I've just
learned to, like one, surround myself with people who have similar priorities and
desires as me so that I can be kept on the right track. And
the people you know everybody, and he says, like, you're kind of
a reflection of like who you surround yourself with. So I make sure I'm
around people who won support what I'm doing and two have very similar goals,
because it makes it really easy to reach mind when the people around me are
also doing the same. I think it's hard in college to navigate that,
to try and find the right crowd. But I think obviously having a team
helps because it just kind of gives you people who are already kind of working
towards that and just find the people who you click with best. I would
say to utilize your resources. If you go to university like I do,
the University of Wisconsin provides like tremendous amounts of resources to its athletes, and
I tried to take advantage of every single possible resource or additive that they were
allowing athletes to have. And I engulfed myself in like student athlete organizations,
you know, initiatives, things that I'm passionate about, to keep my excitement
for, just like living alive, because it can get really hard during a
long swim season when all you're thinking about is like going to practice and doing
this. Like, if you can keep yourself occupied with things you enjoy,
that makes it a lot easier. And I would also say, as much
as I shouldn't advocate for this because I'm really bad at sleeping, I would
just prioritize like recovery. I think you can't focus in class, you can't
focus at practice, you can't focus doing anything if you are not rested in
your body is not recovered. I did a really good job at just finding
a nutritional plan for myself that kept me energized and you know, helped me
recover. I worked a lot with my strength conditioning coach, who is like
a super crazy he used to do it now he does jiu jitsu. He's
like the most fun fit dude in the world. Well, we kind of
worked on certain things that he saw improvements in my performance in the weight room
or he saw the opportunity for me to kind of grow strength, and that
was really key to a lot of my growth, not just in the pool
or like in the weight room, but just in general being excited and happy
and energy filled. So that's that's my advice. I guess I could go
on and on about it. It's so impressive though, I mean seriously,
and we know what a task at hand that is, because you have so
much expectations to be performing in the pool and then performing in the classroom,
and then then you want a social life, and then it's like, hey,
gota do laundry, and then you know, you touched on the nutrition
and the sleeping, and there's just so many aspects that go into it,
and I just think it's it's an accomplishment in itself to not only be able
to swim or do a sport in college, but then and then you get
your degree. You know, one of my proudest moments is like, yeah,
I'll think about like my so many accomplishments, but I'm like, I
graduated from USC, Like wow, like I did it, you know,
and it wasn't an easy ride and I definitely had my struggles, but I'm
really proud of that. And I think, you know, the insight that
you share, I mean, the sleep just being so so important, because
that's I think something that's so hard in college, right you have the morning
workouts and the social life and whatnot. But I think you have awesome tidbits
and so much that people can pull from. And like I said, congratulations
on that huge honor. That's that's a big one, I think in my
opinion. So for our final question, be too this is the fun one.
So the podcast is called behind the Blocks? What's your behind the blocks
routine? What are you like behind the blocks? Do you any superstitions?
Ritual? What would we find be to doing behind the blocks? Total ritual?
Goal? Oh? I love it. Have done the same like movements
behind the blocks all timed out to like I started to. You know,
it's funny, it's really you know, I've learned to be more flexible about
it as I've gone about, because like you're never going to run the same
way that like they do in like a dual meat setting at like a US
Open or at Olympic trials or you know, there's so many different factors that
change your like plan of action before you start racing. So it's become more
flexible. But I do the same thing. I like jump up in the
air in a streamline, bend down to touch my toes. Like that's what
else do I do. It's so funny. It's it's like two heats before
I race. I'll start like doing it and then I'll like bend down on
the block and like my arms and then I'll stretch one leg up, stretch
the other leg up. It's hilarious. Wait has this been since like high
school? Or when did this start or even before then? Oh yeah,
club, Like I don't even remember when it started or why it started,
but I'm sure what happened was I did this weird like clean and then I
swam really fast and associated it with me some fast and so that's all I
do. That's so fun. We have our things, right, Yeah,
I like to Actually I've gotten more keen into like talking to my competitors behind
the blocks. We become like friends and a lot of like especially at the
conference level and even at nc double as last year, I just like chatted
with like people behind the blocks or like you know, as before we walked
out to go behind the blocks, and just it made the atmosphere and like
the the nerves that anybody feels about, like oh, I don't know this
girl, but she's really fast. Like once you create this community of swimming,
like it's so fun because everyone's out there just like trying to compete in
race. It's not like, oh I'm trying to beat this person. It's
like I'm obviously want to win, but like we're all out here trying to
do the same thing, and like we all realize, like we all put
in the work. It's just super cool to like create relationships. I have
become really close with a few girls that I raced against at NCAA's last year,
Like Amy bill Quist and I just became like super like close friends all
the time, like on Instagram or whatever else, like just stuff. But
She's like I would have never had that relationship if I wasn't like brave enough
to just like speak to her, or she wasn't brave enough to just like
say hi to me and create a relationship. So well, you just cued
me out perfectly because she's our next guest. I love that. I love
it, I know. And it's funny. I was the same way.
I was kind of chatty behind the blocks or in the ready room, you
know, but then once you get out there, it's time to go.
But yeah, you're so right. I mean, you you have this community
of people that, yeah, we have the same goals and we want to
win, but we're you know, all putting in so much hard work,
and it's like that level of respect, right Like you're like I want to
beat you, but I respect you. And you know, it's that community
and those teammates and those friendships that are just going to last forever and ever.
And I just love it. I love everything that you had to say.
I think I'm getting to know you even more and more. I just
a passion. She's like a minime. We have so many similarities. I
just love it. And I can't thank you enough for being on our show
today and being so raw and so honest and so open and just full of
like so much. You have such great insight and that's so refreshing, and
thank you for being my guests. I'm wishing you all the best. Please
stay safe and healthy and I'll be rooting for you. Thanks kay when You're
the best. Oh, thank you. And that is our show this week.
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