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Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Soni to Compete at 2009 USA Swimming Minnesota Grand Prix Swim Meet Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Soni to Compete at 2009 USA Swimming Minnesota Grand Prix Swim Meet originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 03:49:10.
Top U.S. swimmers, including Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Soni and World Championship silver medalist Tyler Clary, will compete today in the first USA Swimming Grand Prix Swim Meet of the 2009-10 season - the Minnesota Grand Prix. The event will take place at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, November 13-15.
Site earmarked for £8m swimming pool (Express and Star)
A new £8 million swimming pool in Tipton is likely be built right in the heart of the town.
Swimming opens new pool with convincing victories (The Rice Thresher)
The setting could not have been more perfect. From the beautiful weather gracing the Rice campus this past weekend, to the Barbara and David Gibbs Recreation Center adorned with an array of balloons, to the fans on their feet in the bleachers surrounding the Rice Aquatic Center cheering on the Owls, the swim team's first meet in their new pool was all it could have asked for.
SAC To Close Swimming Pool Area For Maintenance (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
The Summit Activities Center will be closing the swimming pool area at 8 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, and is tentatively scheduled to reopen at noon on Friday, Nov. 20. The pool closure is for routine maintenance.
USA Swimming Junior Team Wins Medals - First Night FINA 2009 World Cup Stockholm USA Swimming Junior Team Wins Medals - First Night FINA 2009 World Cup Stockholm originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 00:51:55.
The 2009 USA Swimming National Youth World Cup Team took home one silver medal and two bronze medals on the first day of competition at the 2009 FINA World Cup Swim Meet in Stockholm. Melissa Franklin earned the silver, while Amber McDermott and Kyle Whitaker both won bronze medals. Michael Phelps, competing in Stockholm as a National Team representative to the Youth Team, also took home a bronze medal.
Young Woman & the Sea, by Glen Stout, started slowly (like an easy swim warm-up). Honestly, I was not hooked by the first few pages of the book. I was not looking forward to reading the rest of it. But as I kept reading, it drew me in to the world of a young Gertrude (Trudy) Ederle, and how she went from a non-swimmer to the greatest swimmers of her time, the first woman to swim the English Channel. I recommend this book for swimmers and for those interested in learning more about the early struggle of women and sports. The story of Gertrude Ederle's swim across the English Channel is well worth reading; it is an important chapter in the history of swimming, and Glenn Stoudt captures it in an exciting and revealing way.
(Photo of Gertrude Ederle from George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress)
Young Woman and the Sea - How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel - The Story of Gertrude Ederle's English Channel Swim originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 01:59:03.
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Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Soni Sets Second Meet Record at 2009 Minneapolis Grand Prix Swim Meet - Second Night Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Soni Sets Second Meet Record at 2009 Minneapolis Grand Prix Swim Meet - Second Night originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 23:15:56.
Thiago Pereira and Olympian Rebecca Soni each won two events and set a meet record Saturday on the second night of the 2009 Minneapolis Grand Prix Swim Meet. Soni won the women's 400-yard IM in 4:14.41 and set the meet record in the women's 200y breaststroke in 2:07.68. Pereira set the meet record in the men's 400y IM in 3:43.72 and won the men's 200y breast in 1:56.44.
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