Category: Organization
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Olympic and National Team Swimmers make a splash in Pleasantville
Olympic Gold medalist Claire Donahue and National Team Members Brad Craig and Katie Meili made a big splash at Pleasantville high school Sunday. “We’re really excited just to be here and come to South Jersey,” said Claire Donahue, a 2012 London Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-medley relay. “For them to come out here is…
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LEN moves its HQ to Geneva
The LEN Congress held at Lake Garda (ITA) approved the LEN Bureau’s proposal to move the organisation’s headquarters from Luxembourg (LUX) to Geneva (SUI). LEN President Paolo Barelli presented his vision on LEN stepping into an extensive development period from the summer of 2015. At the annual Congress held at Lake Garda (ITA) delegates of…
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Swim Team’s Punishment Outrages Parents
10 News digs deeper after parents say they’re outraged over a coach’s actions. Pictures of the Osceola Fundamental High School Swim Team allegedly shows them being forced to hang from a chain link fence as a punishment. Gina Jones took photos of her daughter’s hands that were blistered and sore from the punishment. Her daughter…
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Special needs kids buck the odds and learn to swim
Ever since 3-year-old Cobi Sky could walk, her mom’s been worried about her drowning. She doesn’t worry so much anymore. “I know she can survive; it’s just a comfort level for me that I know we are OK,” said Atiya Young. Children with special needs are at an especially high risk for drowning, but they’re…
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Children petition against natatorium in University Park, Texas
Neighborhood children are petitioning against Highland Park Independent School District’s $15-$20 million plan to build a new swim center at Curtis Park. The park is considered the summer aquatic, social and recreational hub of University Park. “We think we should have a say in our community,” one child told CBS 11 News about their petition,…
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Drowning victim’s family sues Transy, citing ‘culture of disregard’ at swimming pool
A Frankfort couple have charged in a Fayette Circuit Court lawsuit that negligence by Transylvania University led to the drowning of their 13-year-old son in a university swimming pool in June. The suit was filed Monday by Ricky L. and Jessica A. Harris, whose son, Ricky Harris III,died June 23 after losing consciousness during a…
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Danish swimming in shock after Rollason’s resignation
Danish swimming is practically in shock after Shannon Rollason announced that he is resigning after the World Championships in December. – At this moment we are very disappointed and saddened. We have to just collect ourselves a bit, says Pia Holten, director of the Danish Swimming Federation. Jeanette Ottesen, who just three weeks ago won…
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Dagny Knutson sues her former lawyer
Through much of 2011 and 2012, American record-setting swimmer Dagny Knutson was, by her own admission, in “kind of a fog.” Just months after leaving her native North Dakota in the summer of 2010 for an Orange County-based USA Swimming elite training program designed to serve as a pipeline to the Olympic Games, Knutson found…
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Shannon Rollason resigns as head coach of the Danish National Training Center
The Danish Swimming Federation today announced that they have received NTC head coach Shannon Rollason’s resignation, to leave his position as head coach of the National Training Center in Bellahøj after the World Short Course Championships in Doha in December. Rollason has been head coach of the Danish NTC since 1 March 2013, and was…