Month: November 2014
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RSCC educators living underwater to break world record
Two Roane State Community College educators are more than halfway through their bid to break the world record for consecutive days spent living underwater. Bruce Cantrell, associate professor of biology, and Jessica Fain, adjunct instructor, are living in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, a small underwater lodge located in the Florida Keys. “You never know what’s going…
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Missy Franklin Learning to Swim – Touch The Wall
In anticipation of the film’s opening at the Starz Denver Film Festival tomorrow, Touch The Wall has released this clip of the movie where D.A. and Dick Franklin talk about Missy Franklin learning to swim during her early development as a swimmer. The footage includes a lot of home movie clips, showing that Missy was…
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Katie Ledecky swims wearing cap of student seriously hurt in car crash
In the first meet of her senior year, Katie Ledecky wore a cap belonging to a swimmer from another school who was seriously injured in a car crash. Ledecky, the Olympic 800m freestyle champion and multiple world record holder, swam for Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart while wearing a Gonzaga College High School swim cap in a…
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Holyoke swim coach accused of rape, petition reveals nation-wide abuse
A Westfield mother is taking her daughter’s story of rape public. Monica Strzempko’s daughter, Anna, alleges she was raped for two and a half years at the hands of a local swim coach. But Anna’s story of alleged sexual abuse is just part of what appears to be a nation-wide problem in the world of…
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Treasurer charged with embezzling $70K from Potomac swim club
A popular Potomac recreational club is drowning in disbelief, after falling victim to a $70,000 embezzlement scheme. On Oct. 24, Montgomery County Police pinned nine felony theft charges against Amelia Hillman, 49, of Potomac. Hillman, police say, used her position as treasurer of the Tallyho Swim & Tennis Club to launder tens of thousands of…
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Norwegian Boaters Film Close Encounter With 6 Humpback Whales
Saturday 8th November 2014, Svein Aasjord and Trond Ivarsøy were out in their small boat on Kaldfjorden (‘the cold fjord’) in Kvaløya (‘whale island’), Norway, when they saw several whales in the distance, feeding on the herring that the fjords are packed with at this time of year. They shut down the engine, as not…
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James Magnussen aiming to break 100m freestyle world record
Magnussen finished the 2014 long course season with a crippling back complaint that often meant he struggled to get out of bed in the mornings and has since quit training with his coach Brant Best as he reshapes his program for a two-year push to the 2016 Rio Olympics. The 23-year-old dual world champion is…
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Chad Le Clos aims for three golds at world short course championships
Chad le Clos, fresh from winning the World Cup series again, will head into the world short course championships next month with his eye on three world records. He came tantalisingly close in the past few weeks in all three butterfly races, missing out by split seconds. Le Clos goes into the competition in Doha,…
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Swimisodes – Butterfly with Roland Schoeman – The Fifth Stroke Part 1
Olympic Gold Medalist Roland Schoeman has developed one of the fastest dolphin kicks in the world. The dolphin kick has become so important in the sport of swimming, now being used in all four strokes, that it is commonly referred to as the ‘fifth stroke’. In this video series on #thefifthstroke, Gary Hall Sr has…