"If it wasn't for swimming, I never would have gotten a bachelor's degree," he says. "I thought like most New Yorkers that I was going to just live and die in New York City" He also swims for the New York Athletic Club; they were all on scholarship. The club is right next to Central Park South but had a stipend credit card for X amount of dollars a month.

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