The smell of chlorine gives her flashbacks. For years she avoided anybody who even reminded her of swimming, the sport she had loved enough to get out of bed when it was still dark to train before school.
Another woman cannot stand the smell of rubber. She associates it with the strong smell in Derry O'Rourke's office after she heard him unwrapping something, probably a condom, before he sat her in his lap.
The 11 women named in the 29 counts against O'Rourke were trained, bullied, praised and groped by the man who treated the pool and its surroundings as his personal kingdom. For some of them the groping and sexual abuse became rape.
As an official tried to clear Court 29 yesterday afternoon, the women and their families refused to move and stood staring at the father of six and grandfather of three, surrounded by prison officers.
"We just want to see him with his handcuffs," one said. "We've waited 20 years for this."
The offences date back to the 1970s. It was September 1993 when the notice appeared on the pool door telling parents that it was closed until further notice. Three days later it reopened under a new manager.
The room to which O'Rourke would summon his victims was at the shallow end of the pool. They called it the red room, because it had a red door. It became known as the board room because the swimming boards and floats were stored there. Then the girls began to call it the "chamber of horrors".
There was no light in the room, and they remember the dark. They remember being told to hold on to a metal shelf while Derry O'Rourke felt their breasts, through under their swimsuits, telling them he wanted to see how their muscles were developing.
With a training schedule starting before 5 a.m. and carrying on after school, some of the girls saw each other more than they saw their own families, one victim said in court yesterday.
And yet no one confided in anyone else. O'Rourke "made you his pet" when he was abusing them, and told them they weren't swimming fast enough when he was not. They trained together intensively and yet they all went their separate ways for years afterwards.
"You shouldn't have to come to the Circuit Criminal Court to see your swimming friends. You don't have a reunion in Court No 29."
Derry O'Rourke was always in control, another victim said after the sentence was handed down. Yesterday was the first time she had seen him in a situation that was beyond his control.
As the women and their families spoke to reporters in the corridor outside, O'Rourke's wife, who told the court she still had a good marriage, was led past the crowd, supported by her two children.
With a crumpled tissue in her hand as she took the oath, another victim said she was speaking in court for her own peace of mind. She wanted to stand up to the man she had been afraid to stand up to as a child.
And she wanted the judge to "see faces" rather than "reading it off a piece of paper" on a victim impact report.
The stories took on a gruelling pattern in court on Thursday as they were read out by Det Garda Sarah Keane, who started investigating O'Rourke almost five years ago. The first of the 11 was 11 years old when the abuse started. She was six or seven years old when she started swimming. On one occasion O'Rourke took her in his car and parked on the way home.
"She remembers shivering and feeling very cold," Garda Keane said. He forced her to have sex. "She states she didn't even know that was sex." It had been a "very cold and painful act". About 80 per cent of the abuse took place in his car.
That woman sat in the front row of victims yesterday, shaking her head slowly as the defence counsel argued that O'Rourke was sorry, had genuine religious faith, was a good family man and was no longer a danger to children.
"It's important to me to sit up here and let him know what he has done to me," the woman had told the court on Thursday. "He was a very controlling man. He'd say `jump' and I'd say `how high?'
"I trusted the man. My parents trusted him. Everybody trusted him and he used that trust. He took away my childhood and he didn't just take it away; he cruelly took it away."
She put her head in her hands when Derry O'Rourke asked if she and the rest of the victims, "in the name of Jesus Christ would forgive me". The rest of the women and their families gasped and stared at him stone-faced when he took the stand shortly after noon.
He spoke slowly, as if under water, as he gave evidence in his defence. There were more gasps when he said he considered it "a blessing that when I was first interviewed my first reaction was to pray for the people I offended."
O'Rourke often told the girls he wanted to practise hypnotic relaxation on them, telling them to imagine they were lying on a beach or going up and down in a lift.
As the details emerged the women were supported by white-faced husbands, boyfriends, fathers and mothers silently clasping the hands of victims as Garda Keane related their experiences at the hands of O'Rourke.
Over two days of hearings the only face that showed no anguish was O'Rourke's. He stared straight ahead from under heavy eyelids.
There was no emotion when Garda Keane read the haunting description of a 13-year-old girl sitting in an armchair in his office, dressed in her school uniform, with her eyes tightly shut and her fists and toes clenched as O'Rourke abused her.
The girl believed the abuse was "an unpleasant part of her training," Garda Keane said. "She always wanted to do well in swimming and felt that if she said anything this would be jeopardised."
Six of O'Rourke's victims made statements in court yesterday, despite objections from Judge Kieran O'Connor that they were "reliving" their trauma. The other women took ragged breaths and sobbed as their old swimming friends cried in the box. Derry O'Rourke's youngest child is a year younger than one of his victims was when he started abusing her. Yesterday that woman wondered how he would tell a 10-year-old child something like that.
"And how would he feel if that child was to be abused a year later?"