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Looking for an Interesting Coaching Position?
I am not in the habit of posting job openings, but this one looks interesting: Taipei American School has an opening for an Aquatics Director position beginning in August 2009....
Dagny Knutson Breaks American Record at 2008 USA Swimming Short Course National Championships
Dagny Knutson broke the American Record in the 400y IM Friday at the 2008 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Short Course Nationals Championships. Knutson set the record by four one-hundredths of a...
Mary DeScenza Breaks Two Championship Records on Final Night of the 2008 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Short Course National Championships
Mary DeScenza set two Championship records Saturday on the final night of competition at the 2008 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Short Course Nationals Championships. DeScenza won both the 200y back and...
Olympians to Host Make a Splash Day for Atlanta Youth in December 2008
Olympians Cullen Jones, Eric Shanteau and Brooke Bennett will teach over 200 Atlanta-area children about the importance of water safety at “Make a Splash Day” on Friday, Dec. 5. The...
Kapa‘a swimming pool closed this weekend (The Garden Island)
The Kapa‘a swimming pool will be closed to the public on Saturday and Sunday to accommodate Mokihana Aquatics’ time trials for an upcoming swim meet.
USSA Athlete of the Year Voting - Several Swimmers on the list: Phelps, Adlington, Coventry
From the United States Sports Academy: The Athlete of the Year ballot is the culmination of the Academy's year long Athlete of the Month program, which recognizes the accomplishments of...
Three Championship Records Fall at 2008 USA Swimming Short Course Nationals
Three championship records were broken Thursday on the first day of competition at the 2008 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Short Course National Championships. Matt Grevers, a 2008 Olympic gold and silver...
Michael Phelps Named 2008 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year
One more addition to the list of Michael Phelps' accomplishments and honors - the 2008 SI Sportsman of the Year Award. Congratulations, Michael.(Photo of Michael Phelps by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)...
Paul Howlett on Blow, Goodfellas and Swimming Pool (Guardian Unlimited)
Blow 11pm, More4 (Ted Demme, 2001) Demme's last film is the real-life story of George Jung, America's biggest drug-runner of the 70s. His crimes begin with persuading his cabin-attendant girlfriends to smuggle Mexican marijuana to fund his hedonistic California lifestyle, but the later partnership with the Medellin cocaine cartel is a more serious business. An absorbing tale, with Johnny ...
Swimming pool, school gyms open to public (Lake County News-Sun)
The Deerfield Park District has finalized plans for its winter open gym program .
Tulsa plans to open only seven swimming pools in 2009 (The Morning News)
TULSA, Okla. -- Only seven of the city of Tulsa's 22 swimming pools will be open next summer and customers will have to pay a $2 admission fee that had been dropped in recent years.
Swimming pool claims happy child (The New Zealand Herald)
A grieving mother has told how her 3-year-old daughter's body was found in her neighbour's pool. Vimbai Machakaire was playing in her West Auckland garden with her brothers and sisters on Thursday when her mother Emily noticed she was missing about 6.30pm.
Tim Dowling: Why hasn't George Bush's retirement ranch in Texas got a swimming pool? (Guardian Unlimited)
If you want to write to George Bush in the New Year, take down this address: 10141 Daria Place, Dallas, Texas 75229. Official confirmation that George and Laura Bush would return to the leafy Preston Hollow suburb where they lived before he became governor of Texas soon gave way to speculation, and then investigation. The Dallas Morning News reported that a four-bedroom house at the above ...
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