Category: Adapted Swimming
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My Focus: Elizabeth Marks
Two-time Paralympic medalist Elizabeth Marks learned to swim three times: for the first time in 2012, after her injuries in 2014 and after her amputation in 2017. In this episode of My Focus presented by milk life, Marks discusses how the pool has enabled her — and others — to heal mentally, physically and emotionally.
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How I Became A Blind Gold Medalist Swimmer
“I didn’t dream to become blind and I didn’t dream to become a Paralympian.”
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A Transplant Games Athlete Tells Us About Her 60 Plus Gold Medals
It’s been raining gold for Nicole MacKenzie who’s won over 60 gold medals competing in both, the European and the World Transplant Games for team GB.
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Friends ‘just keep swimming’ despite blindness and bone cancer
As 14-year-old Grace Bunke faced numerous rounds of chemotherapy to combat bone cancer, her friend McClain Hermes gave her a wall plaque with “Just keep swimming†etched into the wood.
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Swim Team | POV | PBS
Swim Team premieres Monday, October 2, 2017 (check local listings) Find out more: http://www.pbs.org/pov/swimteam/
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Highlight on Swimmers at the Invictus Games
Pavlo cannot imagine his life without swimming. He has been swimming competitively since the age of 5. Now he will be representing his country at the 2017 Invictus Games.
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Folsom swimmer follows his dream, sets world record at Deaflympics
Matthew Klotz, a swimmer from Folsom, followed his dream to the Deaflympics, where he shattered a world record in the pool.
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Deaf swimmer shines light on technology that could change future of the sport
The lights glow in sequence, almost rhythmic as they cycle through. Blinking red flashes and then a steady red accompany the “on the block†command. Blue illuminates to tell swimmers to “take their mark.†Green means go — and that is triggered by the pool’s starting system. Gallaudet University rising senior Faye Frez-Albrecht focuses on…
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Deaf Olympic Swimmer
Krystle is meeting this local swimmer who is on her way to Turkey to compete in the Deaf Olympics.