By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Olympic medal winning swimmer Elizabeth Beisel has released her first four song EP titled “seasons.”
The 33-year-old Beisel swam her last competitive meet at the 2017 World Championships. Since leaving the pool, she has been building a media career, which includes expanding her foray into music.
She has long been an accomplished violinist, a skill that has become more publicly part of her identity in recent years, which have included playing the national anthem at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
The EP features a song for every season and is a mostly acoustic folk-flavored instrumental album, accompanied by other instruments including banjos and pianos. The track summer contains more electronic elements.
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Beisel recorded at Big Nice Studio in her home state of Rhode Island and released the EP under the label Ready Room Records – an homage to the pre-race room where tension is highest for swimmers. It was produced by Bradford Krieger.
A long-time member of the U.S. National Team, Beisel won a pair of Olympic medals at the London 2012 Games: silver in the 400 IM and bronze in the 200 backstroke. She was also the 2011 World Champion in the 400 IM, among three career individual long course World Championship medalists.
At the University of Florida, she was a nine-time SEC Champion and was named the 2012 SEC Female Swimmer of the Year. She won individual NCAA titles in the 200 backstroke in 2012 and 400 IM in 2013 and was a first-team Academic All-American.
Beisel has some family history of celebrity: her great uncle Warren William Krech has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was one of the original fourteen members of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent actor who appeared in more than 20 -plays and dozens of films in the early era of movies with sound. He was the first actor to play the famous character Perry Mason.
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