Katie Anton featured in Cedar Rapids Metro Sports Report

On a snowy morning shortly before Christmas, while teenagers thronged the malls, Katie Anton swam laps at the Stoney Point YMCA. It’s what she does every day – make that every day except Christmas – and it’s part of the pattern of sacrifice and reward that have defined her young life.

On Christmas Day she flew back to Naples, Fla., where she is spending her senior year of high school, training seven days a week with an elite swim team far from friends and the family she says is the most important thing in her life.

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