Category: Organization
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New Aussie coach Jacco Verhaeren wants an Australian swimmer in every Olympic final
Read Sydney Morning Herald The Australian swim team would have a finalist in every Olympic race by the 2020 Games in Tokyo, if not by 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, new head coach Jacco Verhaeren has declared. Verhaeren, the former coach of Dutch Olympic champions Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn, was recruited…
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Dawn Fraser says Aussie coach Verhaeren likely fired if team doesn’t improve this year
Read SBSÂ and ABC Jacco Verhaeren won’t see out the year as Australia’s head swimming coach if the team fails to perform at the Commonwealth Games and world championships, says Olympic legend Dawn Fraser. Verhaeren took over the role from Leigh Nugent in January after a seven-year stint as technical director for the Dutch Swimming Federation.…
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Missy Franklin swimming clinic in Kuala Lumpur
Olympic gold medal-winning Missy Franklin visits a local Kuala Lumpur pool to give a swimming clinic of a lifetime with some young people ahead of the 2014 Laureus World Sports Awards in the Malaysian capital. http://youtu.be/TVDY1y_Iz_4
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2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Gold Coast
Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014. Monday Memory Featuring Cate Campbell, Brittany McEvoy, Ryan Napoleon, Nik Pregelj, Bronte Campbell and Cameron McEvoy
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Preparing Your Child to Swim Safe this Summer
See kiiitv.com Accidents are the leading cause of death in children under the age of 14, and each year, nearly 1,000 of those deaths around the country are due to drowning. Most of those drownings happen at the family pool. KiiiTV.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend
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Pa. swim coach’s strip club job questioned by some
Read ABC27 A central Pennsylvania school district is debating whether to retain a popular swimming coach after someone complained anonymously about his job as a bartender at a strip club. Twenty-nine-year-old Baron Leonard tells the Altoona Mirror he works two other jobs to make ends meet. That means he works four jobs, counting his $2,530-a-year…
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Swimming Australia bans sleeping pills
Read news.com.au Swimming Australia is going to help every member of the national swim team sleep naturally after declaring that the use of sleeping pills, including Stilnox is now banned. SA has joined with the NRL to ban the prescription drug in a move to repair its battered image and win back the respect of…
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Troubled stars Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett to be offered mentoring roles with Swimming Australia
Read Herald Sun Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe will be invited back into the Australian team as mentors after Swimming Australia launched a scheme to help swimmers handle the pressure of life in and out of the pool. Hackett and Thorpe are in rehabilitation to overcome personal battles they have suffered since their careers ended,…
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British Swimming statement on UK Sport funding
See swimming.org British Swimming is to consider a formal appeal following UK Sport’s disappointing announcement that Water Polo and Synchronised Swimming have been unsuccessful after additional representations were made against a loss of funding for the women’s Olympic sports. The decision follows last month’s announcement that UK Sport was to withdraw funding from the two aquatic…