LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — For almost any young athlete there are going got be ups and downs as you learn and grow in your sport. But one of the most difficult parts of athletics is realizing that your sport just isn’t your favorite. That was the case for Maddy Juba, a junior at Lampeter-Strasburg who started her athletic journey on the soccer field.
“My soccer practices were gonna be when swim was,” Juba said. “I couldn’t do both and I really had a rough time with soccer just cause the team was really changing and it wasn’t going great personally.”
After switching sports, Maddy had to make an adjustment. She reset her athletic goals, targeting different swimming accolades for herself.
“Leaving something that wasn’t going as well into something new since it was a completely different sport,” Juba said. “I said like new goals of how I can try to get better and do it and I think that definitely helps because as soon as I started hitting them. I was like okay, like I don’t think I made a wrong decision and now like I can just keep setting personal goals to grow in swimming and I think that definitely helps.”
Now, with her family behind her, Maddy is thriving as a swimmer for the Pioneers.
“I think they were kind of growing with me because they were learning like I would come home from practice and tell him something new and they’d be like oh that’s interesting. I didn’t know about that so now they’re definitely learning with me, I’d say.”
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