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Schools pour $5.4M into swimming pools (The San Francisco Examiner)
By Andrea Koskey | 01/27/10 11:00 PM PST A shift in swimming habits during the past half-century is a driving force behind the upgrades at four San Mateo Union High School District pools. Project Manager Todd Lee said the four pools currently have an area for lap swimming and an area for diving, but...
Sutton and Margalis Swim to Wins at 2010 Southern California Grand Prix Swim Meet 2008 Olympic swimmer Chloe Sutton and USA Swimming National Team swimmer Robert Margalis placed first in the women's and men's 1000y free Friday on the first night of competition at the 2010 Southern California Grand Prix Swim Meet. The swim meet, taking place at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach, Calif., runs through Monday, January 18. Sutton and Margalis Swim to Wins at 2010 Southern California Grand Prix Swim Meet originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 19:43:29.
How to Teach Swimmers the Back Float in 60 Seconds or Less? How to Teach Swimmers the Back Float in 60 Seconds or Less? originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 00:27:14.
When it comes to teaching swimming to true beginners who are at least 3 year of age, the back float can be taught in 60 seconds or less. Am I kidding? No, I am not. But let me explain an approach that will not only allow you to teach preschoolers to float on their back in 60 seconds or less, it will also help you teach preschoolers to swim sooner too.
(Photo by Jim Reiser)
Swim Skills for Swimmers to Master for Better Swimming Swim Skills for Swimmers to Master for Better Swimming originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 02:43:27.
Swim coaches like to talk about how swimming gets harder as a swimmer goes faster because of an increase in drag. The swimmer must decrease the impact of that drag or apply a great deal more muscle power while swimming. Swimmers find it difficult to get results from applying more muscle power to the water if they are not doing it the right way. The first steps to faster swimming are positioning, grabbing, pressing, and rotating, things that everyone can learn. Here are a few things to check before trying to put more muscle power into your swims.
RC Pool hosts Little 3 meet: women's swimming (The Bona Venture)
The women's swimming and diving team returns to the Reilly Center pool Friday to face the University at Buffalo.
One more go for Waterloo swimming pool improvements (Suburban Journals)
Call it ballot box déjà vu. For the sixth time in four years, Waterloo voters are being asked to approve paying for improvements to the city's public swimming pool, a 316 N. Library St. complex built about 40 years ago.
RC Pool hosts Little 3 meet: men's swimming (The Bona Venture)
The men's swimming team returned home this week after a trip to Washington, D.C., to face Georgetown. The Bonnies defeated the Hoyas, 162-138, to improve to 4-3 in dual meets, despite a struggle to even make it to the meet.
Fitness Swimming by Emmett Hines (Book) Fitness Swimming by Emmett Hines (Book) originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 00:15:00.
This book, Fitness Swimming, is a great resource for a swimmer with a little lap swimming experience that needs more direction, or a lap swimmer with a lot of swimming experience that wants to try some new ideas (of course, that assumes that the ideas in the book are new to that swimmer). It focuses on freestyle technique and fitness swim training from developing skills through swimming fast.
SWIMMING: Hannam hammers more pool records (Spalding Today)
SPALDING swimming starlet Chloe Hannam's stunning season continued as she shattered a few more records at the City of Derby Open Meet.
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