How Olympic Heptathlete Chari Hawkins Turned Anxiety Into Superpower

How Olympic Heptathlete Chari Hawkins Turned Anxiety Into Superpower

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Jessica Parratto and Delaney Schnell

After Jessica Parratto earned a silver medal in Tokyo for women’s synchronized 10m platform with partner Delaney Schnell—Team USA’s first-ever medal in that event—the 5-foot-2 athlete retired to, as she told NBC Sports, “finally be a normal person.”

She did that for, like, a year until Schnell wooed her back into the pool. But to be clear, Parratto said of her return before they qualified for Paris, “I didn’t do it because she wanted me to. I really did it because I wanted to.”

But she doesn’t mind the camaraderie, either. When Schnell banged her feet at the Montreal Diving World Cup in May, Parratto’s first international event back from retirement, “it was a really good bonding moment for us,” she said, “and just being like, okay, we got this.”



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