Malaika Kouagueng '26 Recruiting Profile

One big thing about me is I'm all about improvement. I always want to become better at something. It does not even have to be specifically swimming it can be anything like better grades or a better mentality. Hoping that maybe one day I'd become the best I can be at it! But, specifically swimming, I'm very intense about becoming better at. Whether it's having better strokes or better times or better stamina. When I swim, it's like... I become a whole nother person. I feel like I'm in a different world which I feel like "me" in. The way the water just glides with me and I glide with the water, something about that is very comforting to me. Even when I'm pushing myself to the limit during races I still somehow enjoy all the adrenaline, the screams, and the way you're so in the moment trying to go full-on out. Everything about swimming happens to excite me. Although this might look like a firery passion that’ll run out, this passion is different. It will stick.