Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

I won the 2011 Visa Championships, the 2012 Pacific Rims, and then the 2013 American Cup (the first and only senior elite competition of my elite career).

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.

The Olympics were something that was put in my path. I knew I was capable, I worked so hard for it, so I guess it's like, Why wouldn't I want to go to the Olympics? But it was never something that I was really, really dead set on. It was just what my coaches and everyone else forced upon me.