Talent scout: Lisa Fissneider

When Lisa Fissneider was just five years old, she completed her first swimming course at her local lake and soon celebrated her first successes in junior swimming races under her father's care. Since there was and is no swimming club in Kaltern, the current commercial high school student started for SSV Bozen. She stayed with this club for a total of five years and continued to develop. As a 12-year-old, the Kalterer girl moved to Meran to SC Meran.

She was trained there by Volker Müller. Since this season, Lisa has been competing for the Bolzano Nuoto swimming club, where coach Dario Taraboi is in charge. The move from Meran to Bolzano was a matter of time, because the student always had to be brought to Meran by her mother, who always supported her a lot in her sport, even though her joy in sport came from her father. In Bolzano, the swimmer can take the city bus to training at the rectory after school.

The change from Merano and Bolzano meant that the training intensity could be increased from three to four training sessions a week to five training sessions. Lisa already showed that this circumstance has a positive effect on performance at the Italian Championships and a little later at the European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey last year.

“In terms of style and technology, not much has changed due to the move from Merano to Bolzano. Being close to my home and school means I can simply train more intensively and more often, explains Fissneider about her performance improvement from last year. “The training in Meran or Bozen under the coaches Müller and Taraboi has not changed. But if I had stayed at SC Meran, I wouldn't be able to train so often outside of school," says the breaststroke swimmer, analyzing the positive and fundamental aspect of her move.

Here’s to you and you with the swimming stars “At the Italian Championships last October, I was surprised by my strong performances and qualifying for the European Short Course Championships in Istanbul was a highlight. Above all, meeting the greats of swimming like Biedermann and Pellegrini was something very special. Being able to exchange a few words with these stars is something special,” says Fissneider, still very enthusiastic about the impressions from Turkey. The woman from Kaltern is currently preparing for the “Sette Colli” swimming championships, which will take place in June. These also count as qualification for the European Youth Championships taking place in Finland. The Italian junior and general class championships are also on the program in August. In the general class it is also about qualifying for the European and World Championships.

There is little time for other hobbies The training group in Bolzano consists of 20 young swimmers, all of whom took part in the Italian Championships. The training, which always takes place at 18 p.m. in the evening, always starts with warm-up exercises at the edge of the pool. Then we go into the water where further warm-up exercises take place for 400 meters. During training, all swimming styles are trained, although the main focus for each swimmer is on the special disciplines. The training usually lasts two hours. “I actually manage to balance school and competitive sports quite well. "Basically, it's all just a matter of classification, but in the end everything you do has to be fun, otherwise you won't get anything done," says the HOB Europe student, describing her attitude to the daily routine.

With such a tight daily schedule, there is little left for free time. But when time permits, Lisa arranges to meet her friends like her friends do.

“Sport has to be a passion, even if things don’t go well, you can’t give up,” Fissneider tries to describe her sporting attitude. Lisa has already experienced in her young career that everything doesn't always go according to plan. At the end of January, her meniscus tore during gymnastics class and she had to undergo knee surgery. As a result, she was only able to resume training in mid-March. Understandably, things didn't go so well in the following competitions, and she also came down with abdominal flu, which further weakened the woman from Kaltern. Despite these setbacks, the dream of the 2012 Olympics in London still remains...

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