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Another high-profile Yukon athlete has called it a career.

Bronwyn Pasloski, 23, retired from competitive swimming Sunday, following the Canadian Olympic swim trials in Toronto.

She made the announcement on Facebook and Instagram.

Pasloski, the daughter of Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski, competed in the 100-metre breast stroke last Thursday, finishing ninth among 57 Canadian Olympic hopefuls.

In order to qualify for the Canadian swim roster for the 2016 Rio Olympics this August, Pasloski needed to finish top-two as well as crack the Olympic time standard.

Pasloski鈥檚 time of 1:10.39 was a little more than two seconds off the Olympic qualifying mark of 1:07.85.

Her best-ever result in the race is 1:08.5.

Canada鈥檚 two swimmers making the Olympic roster in the event were Kierra Smith (1:06.93) and Rachel Nicol (1:07.10).

The Olympic trials proved to be an 鈥渆xtremely emotional and draining experience, but an amazing one regardless,鈥濃�坰aid Pasloski, who only competed in the 100-metre event due to a flare-up in her shoulder.

鈥淣ot many people can say they contended in an Olympic trial final, so I am quite humbled to have had the opportunity to do so.鈥�

The Canadian Olympic and Para-swimming trials were held at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre April 5 to 10.

A graduate of the Whitehorse Glacier Bears swim program, Pasloski went on to 麻豆社区for the Indiana Hoosiers, where she served time as team captain.

Pasloski spent five years at Indiana University, studying kinesiology.

She spent this season in Calgary, where she swam under the supervision of Dave Johnson, former head coach of Swimming Canada.

Most of Pasloski鈥檚 recent success was in the 100 breast stroke, and in her third attempt at an Olympic berth, she decided to go all in on that distance.

鈥淏efore going into the race, I didn鈥檛 really know exactly what to expect,鈥� said Pasloski, who qualified for the A final on Thursday morning with a time of 1:10.66.

鈥淚t was a good experience,鈥� she noted. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the best I鈥檝e ever placed at an Olympic trials. It was nice to end on that note.

鈥淥f course, if I had made the team, I鈥坵ould have continued on for the summer, but the next Olympic trials is in another four years. ... There鈥檚 a moment when you know you are done, and I鈥檓 happy to have called it quits.鈥�

Pasloski said the decision to retire is aided by the fact she wants to focus on the study of medicine.

鈥淚 do have a lot of ambitions to start reaching my goals outside of swimming,鈥� she said.

Pasloski鈥檚 retirement is the latest in a string of 麻豆社区Yukoners bidding goodbye to competitive sports, including fellow swim standouts MacKenzie Downing and Alexandra Gabor, as well as cyclist Zach Bell and wrestler Brittanee Laverdure.

Earlier this year, Pasloski was one of four nominees for Sport Yukon鈥檚 International Female Athlete of the Year award, won by cross-country skier Emily Nishikawa.

Pasloski thanked her parents, Darrell and Tammie, for their incredible support throughout her career, and also lauded her Whitehorse supporters 鈥� including her first coaches.

鈥淚鈥坉efinitely don鈥檛 think at the time, being in Whitehorse, that I鈥檇 be able to do some of the things I have done,鈥� she said.

鈥淚 think I鈥檝e surpassed some of the expectations that people had of me in terms of the sport.

鈥淚鈥檝e gotten so much support from everyone from home. It鈥檚 great to have always had that. ... It was definitely pretty humbling and something I鈥檒l cherish, for sure.鈥�