The last time Erica Sullivan swam on the globe phase, she won an Olympic silver medal in the inaugural females’s 1,500-meter freestyle at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Her colleague, Katie Ledecky, won the historical race and can have quickly outweighed Sullivan’s initial Olympic medal win.
Except Sullivan is not quickly outweighed. The 23-year-old is forthright, amusing and understands where she’s going– both with swimming and with her career after swimming.
“It was a race that happened for the first time for women, and getting to be in Japan was so important to me because I’m half Japanese, so it was great,” Sullivan stated by phone from the University of Texas, where she’s a junior. “I only have great memories. It’s definitely a core memory that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
Sullivan is completing in the Pan American Games Santiago 2023 this month and intends to …