Swimmer's Daily

  • Aussie artistic swimmers Amie Thompson, Kirsten Kinash, Jane Fruzynski and Emily Rogers give you an insight into the Artistic Swimming team for Tokyo 2020, upon their selection.

  • People living with dementia often face barriers to participating in exercise such as swimming. In this video we listen to a number of people from ACH Group discussing how they have created resources for swimming pools on how to make their environments and their operations more dementia-friendly. In creating these resources, ACH worked with people living with dementia, their families and carers, as well as health professionals. This project received a Dementia Australia grant. For more information please visit http://www.dementiafriendly.org.au/co…

  • Breaststroke 2 Kick 1 Pull is a common drill done to improve streamlining and stroke length. In this Breaststroke Drill Tutorial, we are going to look at the beginner version of this drill and how it can help extend your Breaststroke technique.

    Performing this Breaststroke drill is very similar to full stroke breaststroke, the difference being that instead of doing one leg kick and one arm pull per stroke cycle, you kick twice per stroke cycle.

    When learning how to swim breaststroke it is key to remain as streamlined as possible. Try to make sure that every breaststroke kick you do, you finish with your feet coming together and your ankles outstretched.

    If you wish to practice breaststroke at an elite level we recommend a variation of this drill (coming next week) to really enhance your race pace and timing!

  • Gettysburg captured its record 15th Centennial Conference championship with 11 gold-medal winning performances in the Bullets Pool. Head Coach Greg Brown, senior Kate Crilly (Most Outstanding Performer) and freshman Talia Moss (Outstanding Rookie Performer) talk about the team’s title run.

  • Johnson and Johnson’s pharmaceuticals brand Janssen wants to improve heart health, and for its latest study it’s turning to the iPhone and the Apple Watch to help gain a better understanding of the vital organ. In an announcement Tuesday, the health care giant announced a partnership with Apple on a new Heartline study designed to get more information on heart health among people age 65 and older.

    The study’s goal, according to the announcement’s press release, is to “explore if the Heartline Study app on iPhone and heart health features on Apple Watch can improve health outcomes, including reducing the risk of stroke, with earlier detection of atrial fibrillation (AFib).”

    The company cites a stat from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that says that AFib, “the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, results in 158,000 deaths and 454,000 hospitalizations each year.” It’s hoping that by using the iPhone app and Apple Watch the study will allow for insights from people nationwide as opposed to having to set up individual clinical trial sites.

    Read CNET

    https://youtu.be/36Hq-ObmSSw

  • The Nicolino’s Play of the Week comes from Bisons fourth-year swimmer Kelsey Wog who captured four gold medals — sweeping the individual events she competed in — at the 2020 U SPORTS Swimming Championships this past weekend.

  • A senior member of the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday that if it proves too dangerous to hold the Olympics in Tokyo this summer because of the coronavirus outbreak, organizers are more likely to cancel it altogether than to postpone or move it.

    Dick Pound, a former Canadian swimming champion who has been on the IOC since 1978, making him its longest-serving member, estimated there is a three-month window — perhaps a two-month one — to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, meaning a decision could be put off until late May.

    “In and around that time, I’d say folks are going to have to ask: ‘Is this under sufficient control that we can be confident about going to Tokyo or not?’” he said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

    As the games draw near, he said, “a lot of things have to start happening. You’ve got to start ramping up your security, your food, the Olympic Village, the hotels. The media folks will be in there building their studios.”

    If the IOC decides the games cannot go forward as scheduled in Tokyo, “you’re probably looking at a cancellation,” he said.

    Read Tampa Bay Times, Politico, USA Today, Time

    In other news, Olympics Have a $900 Million Reserve Fund for Canceled Games

  • In between Olympics, legendary U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz was a star for Indiana from 1969-72. He finished his Hoosiers career with four team national championships and eight individual NCAA titles. Watch six of those titles here.

  • Sophomore Augusta Lewis was named the SCIAC Women’s Swimmer of the Year for the second year in a row after winning three individual championships at the 2020 Championships in meet record times, taking the 200 IM, the 400 IM and the 200 breast. She currently ranked No. 4 in the nation in the 400 IM as she turns her sights to the NCAA Championships the next month.