Category: Safety
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Swimtastic releases free book for parents to teach their kids about water safety
A free educational water safety book is now available on www.Swimtastic.com; designed specifically for parents to use to educate their children at home. The book incorporates water safety rules through fun and engagement; downloadable for free on the Swimtastic Swim School website, if only you register. “Smart Fish Swim in Schools!” :-) Via PRWeb
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2 named in swim team sex abuse suit deny allegations
Swim coach Amanda Cox and former head coach John Diercks yesterday denied any wrongdoing after being named in a lawsuit alleging a culture of pedophilia surrounding youth swimming. Doesn’t look good though, Cox says she had no idea Wheat was molesting anyone until the night before he was arrested, but the victim’s attorney Jonathan Little…
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Female swim coach named in Indy lawsuit
McCutcheon High School swim coach Amanda Cox is now named alongside USA Swimming, Indiana Swimming and others, in the civil lawsuit involving former swim coach Chris Wheat, convicted last year of sexually molesting a girl who was 14 years old at the time. Read wlfi.com McCutcheon swim coach named in lawsuit: wlfi.com
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Indy lawsuit alleges “rotten, sick culture in USA Swimming”
Lawyer Jonathan Little isn’t pulling his punches in the allegations against USA Swimming, in the case of 14-year-old “Jane Doe” against USA Swimming and Indiana Swimming. It is his sixth lawsuit against USA Swimming, that according to Indystar.com “faces an increasing number of lawsuits alleging a pattern of sexual misconduct among swimming coaches nationally.”: “We…
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Family of sexually abused 14-year-old sues USA Swimming et at
“The victim, known as Jane Doe, claims that USA Swimming and Indiana Swimming had two opportunities to stop the swim coach before he molested the young female swimmer.” Christopher Wheat was sentenced in September 2010 to eight years in prison and two in community correction programs after he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual…
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The Steroid-Dealing, Ecstasy-Smuggling, Dead-Body-Burning Swim Coach
… that parents still want to coach their children. Wild story! I was told to tread carefully. I was told that the man in the headline above could be litigious, and that he had deep pockets. There’s also the matter of him burning and burying a dead body on his own property… During the trial…
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Michael Phelps used to be scared to put his head in the water
There you go, anything is possible: “I started swimming at seven. The first couple of years I was afraid of putting my face in the water. I just wasn’t comfortable. Eventually I just put it in and off I went.” Via 2012olympicsblog.co.uk
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Introducing Swim Kids lessons with Grant Hackett and Eamon Sullivan
Wow, Uncle Toby’s isn’t just oatmeal and fumbling sprinters, presenting 6 video lessons with Grant Hackett & Eamon Sullivan. See www.swimkids.com.au
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3-year-old Elodie-Paige MacArthur swims 25 meters unaided
At three years and five months, Elodie-Paige MacArthur might be the youngest to win the Kirsten Trophy contest that Thirsk White Horse Swim Team runs annually, since it was launched in 1972. A competition to find the youngest swimmer in Hambleton district who can swim 25 meters unaided, to aid awareness of swimming and promote…