For Sean Gilles basketball was everything, he planned on playing basketball his whole life. It was what he loved to do and thought nothing would change that.

Gilles took a year off of basketball, because the season didn’t go as he planned. Gilles still wanted to stay in shape so he decided to go swimming and he instantly fell in love with it. Since his first practice in the pool Gilles has grown to enjoy the water even more. He decided to join a select swim team called Gold in order to become better.

“My friends told me that I was swimming really well,” Gilles said. He had so much success competing and with the support of his friends he became more determined to be a better swimmer.

“Growing up I never thought I would do swimming but I loved it and dropped every other sport and swam, I traveled down to Texas for vacation and while I was down there my grandpa wanted me to meet his friend. The man swam at Texas Longhorn University and my parents told him I swam. He said he wants to help me work to get a scholarship for swim,” Gilles said.

Gilles trains six days a week and three hours a day, and works really hard at achieving his goal to swim at Longhorn University.  Swimming was never a part of Gilles’ plan, but it has altered his life for the better.