In the words of T-Pain, all third-year BIsons swimmer Kelsey Wog does is win.

The Junior Bisons alumnus continued her dominance from Canada West Championships – where she won four gold medals – by doing the same thing at nationals this past weekend, including breaking the U SPORTS record for the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2:25.50.

Her four golds, which also included victories in the 50 and 100-metre breaststroke, as well as in the 200-metre individual medley, is a first for the swim team and the most dominant display so far in Wog's university career.

But when asked about her achievements, Wog was her typical humble self, quick to note the good times she had with her comrades versus her own results.

"I just had a really good time this year," she says happily.

"I took a more relaxed approach to [nationals] than I have in previous years and had a lot of fun with it. A lot of my friends were there so I was just hanging out with them."

Head coach Vlastimil Cerny, who's known Wog since she was ten, was a bit more descriptive when discussing his athlete's training approach, which included just four days of rest instead of the typical two-week taper.

"She was so far ahead of the field, even just going in, that I didn't feel that we needed to rest her," he says.

"It was really just because she's getting ready for the Canadian Swimming Trials and we wanted her to be at her peak for that meet. We were really using nationals as the start of the next training cycle. There was no kind of risk, because she's raced so well all year long. To be this close to her best times in full training is pretty good."

A key factor in Wog's success has been her trusting relationship with Cerny. This was particularly important in the months following the breaststroke specialist's impressive showing at the FINA World Championships in Ontario in December of 2016 – her first senior international swim meet.

Wog was a late addition to Team Canada after one of the 200-metre competitors retired, however she still wound up with a second-place finish. At the time, Cerny was experimenting having her do three shorter training sessions a day, which worked due to the strike on campus.

But Wog placed incredibly high expectations on herself after the meet. Her coach noted that her maturity wasn't quite where it needed to be at the time, resulting in in a few difficult break-downs when she didn't race to her own standards.

Finally, around May of last year, Cerny convinced her to see a sports psychologist in order to help handle her emotions and expectations. The results have shown with her consistent success at nationals as well as the best time in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 2018 Canadian Swim Trials.

"It helped me so much," Wog says of seeing a sports psychologist.

"I was struggling a lot with racing, because I put so much pressure and expectation upon myself because my training was so great and I was worried that I wasn't going to be able to race to how I trained. Now, we're just working on composure and being relaxed off the start."

The next major event for the duo is the Canadian Swimming Trials, taking place in early April in Toronto. Cerny says Wog will prep for the event by competing in the Prairie Winter Invitational at Pan Am Pool next weekend while also training in the morning before her heats.

"It's not just because she's gifted that the success has come," the head coach says.

"It's because she has really worked hard at it and pushes herself in training. She doesn't shy away from training at her race speeds all the time on a daily basis, which is really the main reason she's so successful."