By: David Nelson
Kierra Smith had exactly three hours to kill before the NCAA finals began. With nothing to do, she contemplated smashing a hotel chair through the television set.
To say Smith was dissatisfied with her 42nd-place finish in the NCAA 100-yard breaststroke preliminaries would be an understatement.
“I think I was so focused on results and not on the process that that probably hurt me a lot last year,” she said.
Smith, now a sophomore, has come a long way since March 22.