Category: Organization
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Davis Tarwater inspires kids to sign up for swim team
Read wbir.com Kids from around Knoxville got the chance to meet an Olympian and learn more about a summer swimming program. Sign ups for Emerald Youth’s swim team’s seventh season started Tuesday. Gold medal winning swimmer Davis Tarwater spoke to the kids about his own swimming experiences and helped register the kids for the team.…
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Ex-swim coach accused of abuse appears in court
Read Boston Globe When the young boy joined the Arlington Boys & Girls Club swim team in the late 1970s, his coach was Paul Collins, who also dated his family’s neighbor and would sometimes fill in as baby sitter. On those occasions, when the boy went to sleep, Collins would sit at his bedside and…
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Learn Anything in 20 Hours
A fun and thought-provoking TEDx Talk by Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!, via Lifehacker
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Danish anti-doping agency receives major grant
Read Jyllands-Posten The Culture Ministry is giving Anti Doping Denmark a nearly one million kroner grant to help it combat the growing use of steroids and growth hormones in the nation’s gyms and fitness centres. Steroid use is rampant in some centres, with Danes as young as 14 reportedly shooting themselves up in pursuit of…
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You Can Swim – Dr. Murray taking a swimming lesson at Stirling
Scottish Commonwealth Games hopeful Kerry Buchan teaches Dr. Andrew Murray, who is trying out every Commonwealth Games sport, the basics of swimming at the National Swimming Academy in Stirling. You Can Swim runs from 20 May – 30 June in a pool near you in Scotland. For more info look at www.scottishswimming.com/youcanswim
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YMCA Teaches Minority City Kids to Swim to Stop Drownings
The president of the YMCA of Greater Boston talks about the organization’s urban swimming program, which teaches poor black and latino kids how to swim to keep them from drowning. Kevin Washington, who learned to swim at the
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National Learn to Swim Day
See Fox8 Cleveland Ten people die every day in the United States, 2 of the 10 are under the age of 12. That’s why the YMCA of Greater Cleveland is working to educate kids and parents on the importance of water safety. Saturday is National Learn to Swim Day. May also marks National Water Safety…
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Jamaica’s Blue Marlins’ founder quits after vandals wreck pool
Read The Gleaner After four years of setting out a swimming program specifically geared to spur the development of Olympic calibre swimmers in the western region of Jamaica; and after pooling all her life savings into that realization, founder of the Blue Marlin Swim Club, Rosemarie Logan, is calling it quits. Her decision comes after…