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Women's Swimming & Diving

Analyzing situations is something senior Delaney Carey is used to doing.

The key for Carey in working towards long-term goals is putting her head down and grinding towards it.

"When swimming, there are only the one or two times a year where you can really go for that best time," she explained. "You work the whole year towards a minute or two. You have to be able to focus and do the hard work without all the immediate reward and the long-term gratification of knowing that if you do the work, you will have that kind of reward."

Each step of Carey's career has been working hard at goals – from the desire to improve, the want of taking her career to the next level, to sharing the passion of her Rutgers family and to a career in engineering. Read more>>