Swimmer's Daily

  • Highlights from the 2019 NSW Senior State Age Championships at Sydney Olympic Park, 13-18 December 2019.

  • This is the finale of a 4 city tour our companies Dodd Technologies and Reel Video Screens played a big part in. It was a lot of long days but the result looked amazing. We had 8 semis of gear there and it took 2 weeks to setup everything including the pools.

  • US Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has collaborated with Colgate to ensure that everyone is learning how to save water. He shows us that we waste up to 4 gallons of water each time we brush with the faucet on.

  • There are many ways to greet the new year 2020 but this one is really special! Winter Swimmers from Rzeszów celebrated by dipping their warm bodies in ice-cold water! Why? For fun and health! Watch our video to find out more!

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  • There is only one RIGHT way to start a new year: By submerging yourself in freezing cold water.

    https://youtu.be/N1vWbcoTmkk

  • A resident of the United Kingdom, who was previously removed from the United States in 2010, was arrested for swimming across the Detroit River in an attempt to enter the United States from Canada, according to a complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

    Christopher Andrew Sagajllo, 56, was arrested on Dec. 14, 2019 by River Rouge police after he was found at the U.S. Steel Plant and caught the attention of security while in a controlled area. Security believed that Sagajllo had attempted to enter the U.S. from Canada by crossing the Detroit River. The man was issued a misdemeanor citation for criminal trespassing, with Border Patrol agents later responding to the area, then arresting and detaining him.

    Sagajllo, who is from England and Northern Ireland, was denied admission into the U.S. in 2010 after previously being admitted into the U.S. for only three months under a Visa Waiver program in 2003. Sagajllo was living in Chicago, Illinois, when he was ordered to leave the U.S. by an immigration official in DuPage County after being arrested for multiple traffic violations. On May 3, 2010, Sagajllo was sent back to the UK.

    After attempting to reenter the U.S. on Dec. 13, 2019, Sagajllo admitted to officials that he had illegally entered the U.S. by swimming across the Detroit River near Zug Island in River Rouge. He told officials that he used a wet suit to aid him in crossing the river, which is extremely dangerous due to the strong currents.

    Read WXYZ Detroit

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  • At the facility where I work, “Parent Tot” refers to a class where we work with kids in the 6 month to 2 1/2 year old range and their parents, in a sense to help teach the parents how to prepare their kids for swim lessons at age 3. In this video, I’ll go over some of the information and drills that we work on in this class.

  • GAC will host a total of five national swimming championships between 2020 and 2023.

  • At the ripe old age of 98, Maurine Kornfeld is at the peak of her career. Around the pool, the woman known as “Mighty Mo” is a legend to everyone but herself.

    “I don’t want to say we worship her. But we kind of are her biggest fans,” said coach Chad Durieux.

    Among senior master swimmers, she has earned 14 world championship gold medals, has set 28 world records and was recently inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. All in a career that began at age 65.

    A child of the Depression, Kornfeld was told, “good girls don’t play sports.” But look at her now. This late in life hobby inspires her new family of teammates, training at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena, California.

    “What I like about the team is seeing them starting from little or nothing into becoming quite accomplished, and that’s really neat,” Kornfeld said.

    Read CBS News