Swimmer's Daily

  • Cal’s Terri McKeever named the Pac-12 Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year for the first time since 2015 and collects her eighth career award to tie Arizona’s Frank Busch for the most awards by a coach in Pac-12 history (1999, 2002, 2009, 2011-2013, 2015, 2019). McKeever led California to its third consecutive runner-up finish at the NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, where she was named CSCAA Coach of the Year. With McKeever at the helm of the Cal women’s swimming program, student-athletes have been named Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year nine times and National Swimmer of the Year on eight occasions.

  • A record round up of the 5 days of action at the Irish Open Swimming Championships which were held in the National Aquatic Centre on the 27th to the 31st March 2019

  • Swim England has called for the medical profession to be more proactive in prescribing swimming as part of a programme of activity to manage a variety of medical conditions and aid recovery.

    As part of its latest #LoveSwimming campaign, titled Moving Medicine, Swim England has issued the plea alongside inspirational stories of how swimming has helped transform the physical health of a number of people across the country who were suffering from a variety of conditions.

    The individuals, who were struggling to cope with arthritis, Type 2 diabetes and chronic pain, were all prescribed swimming to help ease their conditions.

    Elaine McNish, Head of Health and Wellbeing at Swim England said: “Swimming is an ideal activity which can help people manage a range of medical conditions and we are calling on the medical profession to consider recommending swimming to people who would benefit from improved physical health.

    “As the government and medical profession increasingly move to prescribe exercise as a conduit to improved physical health, we believe that swimming and wider aquatic activity is increasingly the answer for many people and are calling on health professionals to consider prescribing swimming in ever increasing numbers.”

    The #LoveSwimming campaign has been launched ahead of World Health Day on Sunday 7 April.

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  • Stanford’s Taylor Ruck is the 2019 Pac-12 Women’s Freshman Swimmer of the Year after helping lead The Cardinal to this year’s conference title in the 400-free relay and the overall team championship. The two-time Olympic bronze medalist for Canada won gold in the 200-free among three medals at the Pan-Pacific Championships last year.

  • Clovis West swimming coach Adam Reid talks about how the Central Section has changed and what to look forward to in the Valley and State championships.

  • Wanda was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in her early 30s and after suffering a serious back injury a few years ago, was told she would need a walking stick for the rest of her life. Determined not to let this defeat her, she followed her physio’s recommendation and started swimming. She wasn’t a confident swimmer at first so undertook lessons and describes her experience as absolutely life-changing.

    The swimming sector has released the next chapter in the #LoveSwimming campaign, focusing on the physical health benefits of swimming and the positive impact of ‘prescribing’ swimming to aid a range of medical conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes, Arthritis and chronic pain.

    #LoveSwimming

    Website: https://www.swimming.org/loveswimming/

  • Since she was a child Beth French has been in love with the idea of swimming the world’s oceans and decided to attempt to complete the Seven Oceans Challenge in a year, which would see her swim in freezing temperatures and amongst dangerous sharks. Her journey through the toughest oceans can be seen in the new documentary ‘Against the Tides’. With one ocean left to swim, Beth decided to stop, as her son had been diagnosed with autism and she decided that staying home was the best option for both of them.