The Naples Daily News Athlete of the Week sponsored by Elevate Home Services for Sept. 9-14 was Naples swimmer Eire Layton. Layton captured 5,126 votes of the 7,579 cast, or 67.63%. To be selected for the poll, she was on a pair of winning relay teams in their meet against St. John Neumann.
Question: How’d you get into swimming?
Layton: As long as I can remember I would watch my sister Havana swim at her practice, and as soon as I was old enough, around age 4, I was ready to join the team.
What’s been a highlight of your swimming career thus far?
Layton: Medaling in the 200 free relay with my teammates at the state meet last year and going to Rainbow Springs after the competition with my team are memories I will never forget.
Previous winner: NDN Athlete of the Week by Elevate Home Services winner for Sept. 2-7, Gulf Coast’s Jace Seyler
Do you have any sort of a preswim routine before a meet?
Layton: I like to visualize my races in my head thinking about every detail of my race, as well as go to a pasta party hosted by one of the NHS team members the day before every meet.