Alison Swade Major: English Year: Sophomore Events: Mid-Distance Hometown: Downers Grove, IL High school: Downers Grove South Quote: "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock. Perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know that it was not that blow that did it, but all that had come before." - The Stonecutter