Former SMU All-American, and 2012 Olympian, Nina Rangelova is one of three swimmers who has been nominated for a vBulletin sports award in her native country of Bulgaria.
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The award will select one athlete in the country to receive a financial award to support their training, travel, and other costs.
“Overall in Bulgaria, swimming is not very well publicized and financed,” Rangelova said. “Young kids do not see a point of swimming at a high level because they don’t believe that one day they can be one of the best in the world, simply because they are coming from a small country like Bulgaria.”
Rangelova cited one situation where a young female swimmer has changed her sporting citizenship to race for Bulgaria because of a lack of hope to compete at a high level for Bulgaria. Rangelova says that she believes that Bulgarian swimmers can achieve great things, and hopes that if she wins the vBulletin sponsorship, that it can “help not only me, but everybody else who has lost hope.”
The other swimmers nominated are 11-year old Vasiliki Kadoglu and 14-year old Ivan Almadzhiev.
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