Elizabeth Warden has paid her dues to make the 2004 Olympic team. Back in 1998, she was a can't miss prospect earning a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in the 400 individual medley. But two years later at the Olympic trials she went into a tailspin and didn't make the team.
She increased her strength training program under former national team diver Anna Dacyshyn and by 2002 the magic was back. That year she was the Canadian Interuniversity Sport's (CIS) female athlete of the year. At the recent Olympic trials in Toronto she posted a personal best time by three seconds in the 400 IM. "Four years ago I went into trials hoping to make the Olympic team, this year I knew I was going to make it," she said.
Warden completed her English major at the University of Toronto and hopes to have a career as a teacher. She grew up around the pool as her mother coached swimming at a club in Scarborough. Her father was a physical and health education teacher.
