NCAA Champion Aurora Roghair Announces Retirement, Reflects on Swimming Career at Stanford

Aurora Roghair showed out in the last meet of her swimming career, notching 2nd place finishes in the 500 and 1,650 free, 11th in the 200 free, and swimming a massive 1:41.8 leg on Stanford’s winning 800 free relay. After officially announcing her retirement, the US National Team member reflected on what being a Stanford women’s team member has meant to her and how she grew during her four years on the Farm. She also speaks about her future, looking to pursue grad school at Notre Dame.

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Tani
23 hours ago

Congratulations, you’re awesome!! Good luck in graduate schools!!

pete kennedy
1 day ago

A great person and swimmer from Iowa City.

SCCOACH
1 day ago

Nooooooo.

I mean congrats on an awesome career.

Thought she maybe had a little left in the tank???

UVA Fan
1 day ago

Extremely bright and talented young woman. Only better things ahead in life. It’s been great to watch her compete and be a role model both in and out of the pool.

Strugglebus
1 day ago

Actually I love seeing her pursuing her education degree. Too many swimmers continue to swim because they don’t know what to do with their lives!
The future looks bright for Aurora!

Swimgrl
Reply to  Strugglebus
1 day ago

Yes, at least swimmers have that alternative while they figure things out. No hurry.

Snarky
Reply to  Strugglebus
1 day ago

Or some people just love swimming. You are going to be working for the next 50 years—don’t be in such a hurry to waste your youth on being a grown up if you don’t want to or don’t need to.

Strugglebus
Reply to  Snarky
17 hours ago

And some people love video games!

Masters swammer
Reply to  Strugglebus
1 day ago

Is she planning to go to medical school? It looks like she is a Human Biology major at Stanford. Medical school and residency is its own kind of marathon.

Strugglebus
Reply to  Masters swammer
1 day ago

She said PhD in clinical psych I think

cheese
1 day ago

Amazing career! Was hoping she’d challenge for a Worlds spot this summer, but she went out on such a high note with her NCAA finish. Congrats, Aurora!

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