Catch, pull, push, breath. Catch, pull, push, breath. In the mind of 23-year-old Niamh Tallon, these steps repeat themselves as she glides her way up and down a 25-metre pool. In just minutes, she’ll be holding a trophy, helping UCD’s women’s swim team take home gold at the 2017 Irish Intervarsity Swimming Championships for the eighth consecutive year. Tallon has been swimming since she was a girl, but outside of the pool, business was always her plan for success. “Never would I have thought I would be doing sport for a job,” she said. “I did commerce in my undergrad,…

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