Category: Organization
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Teaching Others: From the Classroom to the Swimming Pool
When Herman Kelly isn’t teaching at LSU, you can find him swimming at the indoor pool inside LSU’s university recreation center, or UREC. Kelly is an adjunct instructor in LSU’s School of Education and College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ African American Studies. He’s been teaching at LSU for more than 20 years, and when…
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Deadly heat a major concern for Tokyo Games
With Tokyo’s summer heat and unpredictable weather likely to prove a severe headache during the 2020 Olympics, sports bodies are using every resource at their disposal to prepare athletes and spectators for extreme conditions. Several organizations have turned to a weather forecasting company to feed them firsthand meteorological data in a bid to understand what…
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2020 Olympics 1 Year Out: How Tokyo Is Prepping For Summer Games | TODAY
The one-year countdown to the 2020 Summer Olympics begins! As Tokyo gears up to host the games, NBC’s Keir Simmons takes us around the amazing venues in Japan’s capital city.
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Unique High School Swim Program Teaches Students Lifesaving Lessons | NBC Nightly News
Students at one New York high school are learning how to swim for the first time while also training to be lifeguards. The students are able to use their jobs as lifeguards to save money for college and help their family members in need. Their coach says the best part is watching the lifesaving lessons…
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Kids learn to swim at Tampa’s Summer Splash Down
The City of Tampa is offering Summer Splash Down sessions at its 12 participating city pools, Tampa Aquatics Manager Heather Erickson tells ABC Action News. Mayor Jane Castor’s Summer Splash Down encourages children, ages 5 years to 18 years old, to visit one of the Parks and Recreation Departments twelve pool facilities during open swim…
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Swimmers make waves to fight cancer
The Swim Across America’s annual Boston Harbor Islands Swim, a 22-mile relay around Boston Harbor Islands and the annual Pool Swim held at Harvard University, are part of the critical effort to fund pediatric hematology/oncology and related programs at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Since 2013, the MGHfC Cancer Center has received…
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Pilot project teaches swim safety skills to new Canadians
The pilot project in the Thorncliffe community teaches many new Canadians the skills they need to stay safe when they enter the water.
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Rome to bid for 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Rome intends to bid to host the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, following approval by mayor Virginia Raggi and the city council. The announcement comes ten years after Rome hosted the World Swimming Championships in 2009, an event which was successful from a sporting point of view but which led to cases of corruption surrounding the…