Having won 13 SEA Games, 3 Asian Games medals from 2011 to 2017, Danny Yeo is a swimmer synonymous with fierce determination and a great comeback. He has trained and competed at the highest levels of elite swimming in Singapore, South East Asia and Asia.
For someone who started relatively late in the game, he has accomplished a great deal. He has missed some critical milestones including the opportunity to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics due to a bout with dengue. But it never stopped him from making the all-important comeback.
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Freshman Jolee Liles talks about her first meet as a collegiate swimmer
Baton Rouge native and freshman Jolee Liles talks about her goals for the season and her first meet as a collegiate swimmer.
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Former Judge Can’t Find Work Following Outrageous Rape Case Ruling
Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio is joined by legal journalist Mollye Barrows to discuss the recent firing of former California judge Aaron Persky from his coaching position for a high school tennis team. The firing stems from backlash associated with the former judge’s grossly light sentencing of Stanford swimmer Brock Turner for raping 22-year-old Chanel Miller behind a dumpster.
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Day in a Life of a All American Swimmer / Water Polo Player
Watch how this 2 time All American sprint freestyler spends his day and what he does in his free time.
https://youtu.be/FUHCTRYLMCY
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LSU Swimming HC David Geyer is excited to see freshmen swimmers making waves this season
LSU Swimming Head Coach David Geyer sees big potential in team this season.
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Saving the pool to save the community | The Pool
Heywire winner Lauren Paynter, Nyah, Vic
Across Australia, small towns are dying out. Unfortunately, so is mine.
But when my local pool, the community hub for so many, was under threat of closure, I knew I had to do something.
I still remember the first time I touched the bottom of the deep end and I have many great memories of the afternoons I spent racing my siblings up and down the pool.
My family would often be the first ones there when it opened for the day, to do some laps before the sun came up.
To me, it is my home away from home.
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The Fight For Parramatta Pool | The Pool
In its peak, Parramatta pool was open year-round and bringing in more than 1,100 people on a hot summer’s day. But in 2017 Parramatta’s only pool was demolished to make way for a $300 million football stadium. A new pool was promised by the state government, but Parramatta is still waiting. Join Parramatta resident Suzette Meade and school principal Stephen Walsh as they discuss the fight to restore Parramatta pool.
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‘Magic’, ‘medicinal’ water keeping tourists and towns afloat | The Pool
Taking to the waters of a mineral pool is a human tradition stretching back thousands of years ago.
Today, it’s often grey nomads seeking out the reputed healing powers of mineral pools and their bubbling waters.
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The way that athletes use pools for rehabilitation | The Pool
Every weekend our football stars run onto the turf across the country and battle. They collide at break-neck speed, tackles are made, marks are taken, there are winners, there are losers. Most of all there are many, many sore bodies and many, many sore egos.