Growing up in Nottingham, Amber Keegan was swimming from a young age. She always loved the water - it was her safe space and a place of solitude and calm. Her talent for the sport was clear, too, and she’d competed at the World Junior Championships and placed at the European Junior Championships at the age of just sixteen.
But it wasn’t all gold medals and trophies. For many years, she battled debilitating mental health struggles that threatened to end her career and sabotage her dreams of making the Team GB Olympic squad.
