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ROCHESTER HILLS – Every athlete has to overcome adversity from time to time.

Whether that be an injury, false start or a heart-breaking loss, that’s just the life of anyone that plays sports, really.

But goggles?

A year ago at the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 Girls Swim and Dive State Finals held at the Holland Aquatic Center, Clinton Township Chippewa Valley’s Rachel Kincher had a hiccup with her swimming goggles just before the start of the prelims for the 100 backstroke.

“You wouldn’t believe it,” laughed Kincher, who was a junior at Chippewa Valley at the time and had qualified for the state meet in her top event.

“Last year as we were getting ready for the 100 backstroke at (the state meet) my goggles broke. It was letting water i

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