Category: Organization
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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 Watch this video on YouTube
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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…
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Learning to swim: The younger the better
See Live 5 WCSC Swimming is a life-saving skill says James Island swim team coach Eddie Mason, who teaches kids as young as five. “It keeps them from being afraid of the water as they get older, and we find that the kids who started at five are usually faster and better swimmers by the…
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Janet Evan supports Olympic wrestling
Olympic champion swimmer Janet Evans PSA to support Olympic wrestling Watch this video on YouTube
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The Herning 2013 website is ready
The 2013 LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships website is ready, go see www.herning2013.com They have a teaser video also
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Opening of the 2013 Russian Swimming Cup Final in Kazan
A video from April 16 posted today, from when the official opening ceremony of the Russian Swimming Cup took place at the Aquatics Palace in Kazan. 16.04.2013 Opening of the Russian Swimming Cup FinalWatch this video on YouTube
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Missy Franklin visits paradise for a purpose
See 9News Bimini is the sound stage for a movie called The Current. It is a documentary that Boulder filmmaker Kurt Miller is making through his nonprofit MakeAHero.org. It is a documentary about people with physical challenges who learning to scuba dive. The ocean is the great equalizer. There are no limits or comparisons as…
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Australia axe coach of troubled relay team
Read Bangkok Post Australia have axed the coach of their scandal-hit 4x100m freestyle relay team for the world championships as part of a wide-ranging shake-up after last year’s Olympics flop, officials said Friday. John Fowlie, who oversaw a medal-less showing by the world champions in London, moves aside for Brant Best, coach of relay anchor…