Pablo Torre

Thanks.

We don't just have to take Riley's word for it that this was how Coach Lars operated.

I talked to three of her former teammates at Kentucky, two of them who spoke on condition of anonymity because they know that Riley's fans and followers might go after people.

But one of them said,

agreed to go on the record.

My name is Trinity Ward.

I swam at University of Kentucky from 2019 to 2022.

Also, she was brave enough to speak to us on camera.

Trinity started at UK a year after Riley did.

And by the time she's getting recruited at UK, she's seeing its intense training program.

She's seeing all the resources that the school puts into the program.

It was really pitched as, and rightfully so, this program where, you know, you almost could have this rags to riches story of somebody that came in as a decent swimmer.

And all of a sudden, after going through this training program, dropping, you know...

10 to 20 seconds sometimes and really just improving a lot and becoming an all-star, making the all-American team, becoming an SECA finalist, qualifying for NCAAs, meddling and finaling at NCAAs, which was really inspiring to me.

But every person I'm talking to back home outside of swimming at my school was like, you're living the dream.

You know, you're living like the f***ing American dream.

She became a specialist in the 100-meter butterfly, and this is what she trains for.

And as she's really getting started, she says that Coach Lars reminded her of the coach from Rocky.

Right.

This is the guy who says, you're going to eat light and you're going to crap thunder.