Since winning a Bronze medal at the 2016 Games in Rio, Masse has been key to Canada’s resurgence in the pool
Kylie Masse helped turn Canadian swimming around. Now ‘The Queen of Consistency’ is the backbone of the Paris Olympic teamKylie Masse blasts out of the start blocks on her way to winning the women's 200-metre backstroke at the Canadian Olympic Swim Trials in Toronto on May 16.There was a time when making the Olympics seemed like a far-off dream for Kylie Masse . At the Canadian trials for the 2012 Summer Games, where only the top two swimmers made the cut in the backstroke, she finished 99th.
When Team Canada takes to the pool this week, the country’s fortunes in the medley relay will hinge, in part, on Masse’s prowess. Before Canada seemingly started churning out swimming prodigies, “it was Kylie doing some of that heavier lifting,” he said.Masse contributed to the normalization of success in Canadian women’s swimming over much of the past decade. Though it’s not something she’s looking to take credit for.
By then Masse, who was 19 and a student at the University of Toronto, had started working with swimming coaches Linda Keifer and Byron MacDonald. A late bloomer in the sport, she stepped up her training, went to a high-altitude camp, and brought more structure to her workouts. She won gold that year in the 100-metre backstroke at the World University Games in South Korea. It was a sign of things to come.
Masse arrives in Paris with the fourth-fastest qualifying time in the 100-metre backstroke and the third-fastest time in the 200-metre backstroke. In each case, she is chasing Australia’s Kaylee McKeown and American Regan Smith. No strangers to each other, the three have shared podiums several times throughout their careers.
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