On the back of winning the 50 free and 50 fly at the 2025 British Championships and qualifying for her first LCM world championships, SwimSwam sat down with Eva Okaro to discuss her swimming career thus far. Okaro dives into her experience at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2024 Short Course World Championships, where she won a silver medal with Britain’s mixed 4×100 medley relay. She also talks about her training in Britain and what she’s looking forward to about coming to the University of Texas in the fall.
- 0:00 Eva Okaro Introduction
- 1:31 British Championships
- 4:04 50 Free Race Plan
- 7:18 100 Fly/Free
- 10:08 Sprint Training
- 14:15 Swimming with Twin Sister
- 16:08 2024 Paris Olympics
- 25:33 Short Course World Champs
- 28:46 Training on Sundays
- 32:29 Coming to Texas
- 37:07 Favorite Pool
- 38:01 Sara Curtis
- 40:02 World Champs Prep
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It’s called the Foro Italico. I knew the answer before she opened her mouth. Ask any elite European swimmer what’s their favourite pool and 9 times out of 10 they’ll say Foro Italico, if they ever raced there.
The Duna?
its interesting how americans love to complain about ncaa programs being behind the curve and boring but international recruits always say the ncaa system is much more exciting than their swimming scenes back home lol
this observation extends a whole lot wider than just NCAA swimming.
Americans just love to complain.
maybe you’re talking about Americans complaining about NCAA Swimming when compared to the rest of the sports in the NCAA – because swimming is very much behind the curve within the NCAA
Top notch interview!
I wonder where she was verbaled to
I heard it was UNC
sounds like it was a mid to lower ranked program with an outdoor pool lol. interesting that she didnt initially commit to a top program given shes always been a fairly elite junior (albeit she did regress a bit due to injury). maybe her success/rebound last year changed her priorities?
Great interview. Wonderful personality. Big fan!
Agreed! Eva was a great guest. Excited to see how she progresses this summer.