Career
Swider-Peltz graduated from Wheaton North High School in Wheaton, Illinois, in 2005 and is currently working, amongst her speedskating career, on her Bachelor"s degree in Communications at Wheaton College. Swider-Peltz"s mother, Nancy Senior, competed in four Winter Olympics as a speed skater from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. In Nancy Senior"s last Olympics, baby Nancy was one year old.
Once Nancy Junior. picked up speedskating at the age of 13, her dream was to participate in the Olympics.
In the beginning years, she even competed against her mother at the Olympic trials in 2001, the season they both overlapped each other before Nancy Senior became a coach.