Category: Adapted Swimming
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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.” Watch this video on YouTube
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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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/ Watch this video on YouTube
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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Would you dare to swim in the dark?
Swimming can be quite a challenge if you can’t see where you’re going. ‘Buddy for the Blind’ is an IBM Benelux project setup to help Jesper and Joey swim independently and freely.