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High school swimming: Bengals favored to rule the 5A pool (Deseret News)
By Dan Rasmussen
Frenger swimming pool to be closed (Las Cruces Sun-News)
LAS CRUCES -- The city of Las Cruces Frenger Swimming Pool, 800 Parkview Drive, will close at 4 p.m. on Feb. 26 for staff training.
Chloe Sutton is Top Swimmer on First Night of 2010 Missouri Grand Prix Swim Meet
Photo of Chloe Sutton by G. Newman Lowrance/Getty Images
Chloe Sutton is Top Swimmer on First Night of 2010 Missouri Grand Prix Swim Meet originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, February 13th, 2010 at 01:56:37.
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Horse rescued after falling into a swimming pool (Horse and Hound)
A horse called Tequila had to be rescued by firefighters earlier this week after stumbling into a swimming pool.
Swim Lesson Teaching Time and Space Issues - Keep Parents and Others at a Distance? Swim Lesson Teaching Time and Space Issues - Keep Parents and Others at a Distance? originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 04:04:54.
A swim teacher and swim coach in England, Shev Gul, is trying to get people to realize, respect, and formally make the teaching of swim lessons a health and safety issue that needs to be done in a secure, uninterrupted environment. What this means in the long run is that people should be kept a certain distance away from the swim lesson teaching area. In other words, keep parents and others back from the side of the pool; they should wait and watch swim lessons or swim practice from a distance.
Swimmers To Do List - Improve Your Swimming Swimmers To Do List - Improve Your Swimming originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 01:31:00.
There are many things that swimmers can do to swim better. This to do list of 10 ways to better swimming could help any swimmer improve their swimming. Get this to do list done and swim on!
Swimming in Swaziland Coach Don Heidary of Orinda Aquatics went on a trip to Swaziland, Africa to "talk about club development, staff training, parent structure, training plans, stroke drills, race strategy, to stand on the deck and assist with training groups... ...the reality was that they had little or no exposure to the world of swimming... ...conversations quickly centered around club survival, getting kids into a used swim suit (as opposed to their underwear), getting kids to the pool as most families do not have cars, surviving financially as most cannot pay, and just keeping children from drowning. There was no staff, parents, or finances to manage." Everyone involved in the swimming world needs to read Don's report, Swazi Swimming, Vision and Reality. Swimming in Swaziland originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 00:19:54.
Swim4Humanity 2010 - Swimming Stars Participate to Support SurfAid International Swim4Humanity 2010 - Swimming Stars Participate to Support SurfAid International originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 02:12:50.
Swim4Humanity 2010 fund-raising event will have top American swimmers Jessica Hardy, Fran Crippen and Caroline Burckle participating to support SurfAid International, a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the health, wellbeing and self-reliance of people living in isolated island regions of Western Sumatra. The annual Swim4Humanity fund-raising event will take place in seven cities in California (San Diego, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and San Francisco), New York, and New Jersey. Participants ask friends and family to sponsor them in a 30-minute lap swim, and may also choose to participate in a competitive freestyle lap swim and fun relay race.
Swimming with sharks in the ocean or pool (Columbia Daily Tribune)
Chloe Sutton, the youngest Olympian at this weekend’s Missouri Grand Prix, has been bloodied and bitten. Doubling as an open-water star, she has swum through fishing nets and flailing elbows, brushed against stingrays and dolphins.
Does Breathing Every 3-5-7-9 Make You a Faster Swimmer? Swimming and Breath Control Does Breathing Every 3-5-7-9 Make You a Faster Swimmer? Swimming and Breath Control originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 00:26:15.
Swimmers, do you control your breathing rate during swimming sets in a swim practice? Do you follow a breathing pattern, taking one breath every certain number of swim strokes? Do you swim a certain distance and change the breathing pattern each length, such as breathing every 3-5-7-9 by 25's? Why do you do that?
Alternatives to Chlorine for Swimming Pools Alternatives to Chlorine for Swimming Pools originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 01:17:35.
Studies in the United States, Canada and Norway have linked chlorine byproducts in ordinary tap water to higher health risks. Of disturbing news for indoor swimming pool patrons are studies that show much higher levels of these chemicals are found in swimmers. And the highest levels are found in the most active swimmers.
Urbandale raises swimming pool’s rental rates (The Des Moines Register)
Parents, swim clubs and other groups will pay more to use the Urbandale Swimming Pool, 7201 Aurora Ave., this summer.
Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte to Swim in 2010 Missouri Grand Prix Swim Meet 12-15 February Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte to Swim in 2010 Missouri Grand Prix Swim Meet 12-15 February originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 00:16:25.
Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, in addition to other members of the USA Swimming National Team, will compete at the USA Swimming 2010 Grand Prix Swim Meet, 12-15 February in Columbia, MO. The meet will take place at the Mizzou Aquatic Center, and is the third stop of the eight-meet USA Swimming 2010 Grand Prix Series that awards the overall winner a $20,000 grand prize.
Prep swimming: At the pool, he's 'Coach Dan' (St. Cloud Times)
At home, the Eckbergs are like most brothers. But at the pool, things change.
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