Kaylin Bing

“Swimming might lead to something bigger someday, but you can’t really predict the future.”

Kaylin Bing is a 16-year-old with stars in her eyes (make that Olympic rings).  But it isn’t as though Kaylin is just ‘dreaming.’  She is actually a legitimate rising star on the national radar of Olympic swimming standouts.

Kaylin swims year-round in hopes of getting a shot at national and Olympic stardom, and she is well on her way.  Last year Kaylin swam the 100 Butterfly in record time (54.52), winning the Oregon championship title (she also holds the State 100 backstroke title).  She has swam the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly at the short course national championships and has been invited to train at the USA Olympic Swimming facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

She is over 5-feet-10-inches tall, and one of four athletically gifted siblings.  But like many champions she is disarmingly humble and extremely likeable.  At the US Olympic Trials, Kaylin admittedly looked around at her competitors in wonder and awe and pondered, “I was thinking, ‘Um, is anybody else as nervous as I am?”

Kaylin’s road to greatness has not been without unexpected twists and turns.  Her father, Norm Bing, a former Southern California surfer, and devoted husband and father lost his battle to an aggressive form of cancer in June, 2005.  Kaylin says, “I remember seeing my dad in the stands, always cheering us on.”  And in regard to her swimming prowess and determination she remarks, “I knew it was what he would have wanted me to do.”

Kaylin juggles her intense swimming schedule with her rigorous high school academics.  Her plate is as full as it is bountiful.  Kaylin takes it all in stride, and in regard to the comments of impressed well-wishers she bashfully says, “It’s so flattering.”  She is as kind out of the water as she is competitive in the water.

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