Category: Organization
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UGA swimming/diving coach Jack Bauerle suspended after NCAA alleges academic violations
Read Savannah Now The University of Georgia announced Friday that swimming and diving coach Jack Bauerle was suspended from “all job-related responsibilities effective immediately” after receiving a notice of allegations of NCAA violations. The NCAA alleged in the notice issued Wednesday that Bauerle made “special arrangements” on Dec. 10, 2013, with a professor to add…
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15 Danish swimmers qualified for Berlin 2014 Europeans
At the end of the Danish Open 2014 in Bellahøj tonight, the Danish swimming federation announced the 15 swimmers qualified for the LEN 2014 European Swimming Championships in Berlin. In another press release national coach Nick Juba commented: “I think that the trials have been efficient and successful, but also fairly predictable. Our ‘big hitters’…
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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 SBS 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 Trials SwimFan – Monday MemoryWatch this video on YouTube
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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…