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February 4, 2008 Swimming Pool News


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How Do I Quit My Swim Career On A High Note - Should I Quit?
I wanted to get some other swimmers inputs. I am currently a freshman in college and have been swimming year round since I was nine. I lived and breathed swimming...

Pushing for a swimming pool (Parry Sound North Star)
PARRY SOUND – After two-and-a-half years of planning, a committee supporting the creation of a pool and recreation complex in West Parry Sound had an audience for its draft proposal.

Open Water Swimming to Beijing
Steven Munatones (10kswim.com) has put together a great Open Water Swimming montage. Turn up your speakers, sit back, and enjoy....

Prep boys swimming: Surprising Sauk looks to crash Badger pool party (Wisconsin State Journal)
 PRAIRIE DU SAC — Only two current Sauk Prairie-Wisconsin Heights swimmers were around in 1990, the last time the team won a Badger Conference boys swimming title.  Fast forward 18 years and Sauk-Heights again finds itself in the thick of the chase for the overall championship race entering the conference meet today at Baraboo.  The Eagle-Vanguards finished 8-1 and second in the dual-meet ...

Mary Descenza Tops the List for $20,000 US Swimming GP Award After Two Meets
National Teamer Mary Descenza topped the 2007-08 Toyota Grand Prix Series’ leaderboard this weekend, having accumulated 41 points from the Minnesota and Southern California Grand Prix meets. After the Minnesota...

Draining Georgia's Swimming Pools? (WXIA-TV Atlanta)
Forget Georgia vs. Florida vs. Alabama --the real water war this winter might be fought over Georgia's swimming pools. Denis O'Hayer Reports

Beijing National Aquatic Center Water Cube is Open for Business
The home for swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, the National Aquatic Center - the Water Cube - is open. With three pools under one...

Key Swimming Workouts for a Triathlon
Important or key swim workouts for a triathlete involve race simulation, swimming skill proficiency, sustainable swimming speed, and time to recover after a swim. These factors, along with the athletes...

Prep swimming: Once again, East the queens of the pool (The Salt Lake Tribune)
PROVO - It doesn't matter if they're the reigning state champions. It doesn't matter if they have a handful of the best swimmers in the state. It doesn't matter that their school name was announced as podium finishers on a regular basis Saturday at Brigham Young's Richards Building Pool.

World’s largest swimming pool. Video (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
Chile: the world’s largest swimming pool has been built in Chile. The pool is a kilometer long and is as deep as 35 meters. (54 sec./2.00Mb, shows: 3)

Wrong pedal sends car into swimming pool (East Valley Tribune)
Residents of a Mesa mobile home park got a big surprise Saturday evening after an 87-year-old man backed his car into a swimming pool.

Groups to discuss swimming pool options (Canon City Daily Record)
FLORENCE — Although the committee decided the $4 million swimming pool is what they really wanted, they agreed it would be impractical. Even if the city could pay for the pool, the cost of maintaining it would be the next issue to address.

Parents dump kids at swimming pools (Herald Sun)
PARENTS are dodging childcare fees by dumping children at public swimming pools during school holidays for lifeguards to look after.

Wisconsin's Public Swimming Pools Subject To New Rules (WEAU Eau Claire)
They're in effect as of Friday, February 1, 2008

Yoga and Swimming - World Champion Swimmer Haley Cope
My first experience with Yoga was during my junior year of high school. My swim coach and I decided to eliminate morning swimming practices and insert yoga in their place....


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