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Category: Safety

  • $1.5M settlement in the Andy King case

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    The 29-year-old King County woman who said that her coach molested her while she was on an Oak Harbor swim team nearly 18 years ago will receive a $1.5 million settlement from the North Whidbey Park and Recreation District to compensate for the abuse, according to her lawyers. Read The Seattle Times

  • Phoenix police kill man barred from swimming pool

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    Phoenix police yesterday shot and killed a young man who became belligerent after having been turned away from a city swimming pool, threatening people and then charging the officers with with a baseball bat. AZ Central via USA Today.

  • Summer Sanders SwimToday

    Summer Sanders SwimToday

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    USA Swimming, Speedo USA and two-time Olympic gold medalist Summer Sanders will join forces this summer to help grow participation in swimming as part of a new, national swimming campaign called SwimToday, now live at www.swimtoday.org. Via the17thman

  • Another high school swim coach charged with sex crimes

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    32-year-old Grand Ledge High School teacher and coach Jason Algra has been charged with eight counts of criminal sexual conduct involving two students, bail set at $250,000. Three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct punishable by up to life imprisonment, and five counts in the third degree punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment. MLive…

  • Another high school coach arrested on suspicion of sexual conduct with student

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    A California high school water polo and swim coach was arrested Friday after detectives found probable cause to believe that he had engaged in sexual conduct with a student at the school, police said. “It’s the same old story of a coach taking advantage of their position and coercing a minor into a relationship,” an…

  • Pool Rules: Never swim with diarrhea or drink the water

    Pool Rules: Never swim with diarrhea or drink the water

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    »Ever been at a public pool closed because some child had an “accident?” What you might not know is that the spread of what public health types call “fecal matter” is happening all the time in pools — and that chlorine doesn’t protect you as much as you’d like from one diarrhea-causing bug carried in…

  • High school swim coach accused of having sex with underaged student

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    A Pennsylvania high school swimming coach was arrested Wednesday on charges he had sex with an underaged student. Kenneth Fuller, 47, is charged with institutional sexual assault, corruption of a minor and related charges. On one occasion, Fuller called the school and pretended to be the victim’s father and had the victim excused from school…

  • Cullen Jones makes teaching swimming a priority

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    This year Cullen Jones is juggling his training for the U.S. Olympic trials – he will compete in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle events – with traveling around the country for USA Swimming’s “Make a Splash” program, which promotes teaching kids from diverse backgrounds to swim. When I woke up from being completely resuscitated, from…

  • Missy Franklin’s Mom is the reason she’s a swimmer

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    On Missy Franklin’s 17th birthday Friday, and two days before Mother’s Day, the teen has released a video dedicated to her mother, D.A. Franklin, and her mother’s own dedication to the teen’s success. As she almost certainly wouldn’t be a world class swimmer if it wasn’t for her mother, and her mother’s own struggles with…