Swimmer's Daily

  • Imagine your career on display live for 30,000 people and broadcasted all over the world. Ryan Held, Olympic swimmer and recent graduate of the NC State College of Natural Resources, is not one to buckle under pressure. His strength was tested at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he won gold in the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay alongside fellow athletes like Michael Phelps.

    That strength was recently tested once more as Held stepped up to one of his biggest challenges yet: educating children and families in the Naturalist Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

    Held began his internship in the Naturalist Center in August of 2018 with a goal to combine his love for swimming and competing with applied science. He was able to pursue his passion by teaching children about the natural environment and how they connect to human’s everyday lives, but most relevant to him, how animals are best adapted to move through water. He encourages hands-on learning with his students by utilizing the museum’s cart program to create a mock swimming meet between a shark and human. Not surprisingly, the shark won.

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  • May is National Water Safety Awareness Month. Did you know that drowning is the number one cause of accidental death for kids ages 1-4? That’s why the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that kids take high-quality swim lessons to develop critical “water competency” skills like floating, getting in and out of the pool safely, etc. Josh Bitterman, Owner of Goldfish Swim School in Overland Park discusses which age kids can start learning how to swim and how Goldfish can teach them everything they need to know to be alert in and around water.

    https://youtu.be/KkmUrp8Zylw

  • It’s been all change for Olympic swimmer Cameron van der Burgh, who’s swapped competition for oil trading, and Cape Town for London, where he’s the number one customer at Harrods.

  • Cooper Gates, a senior at McAllen Memorial High, signed to compete in swimming for the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio on April 30, 2019. Cooper set multiple records in swimming for the Mustangs. He was also named Region VIII Male Swimmer of the Year. He plans to study engineering in college. Many McAllen ISD athletes reach the next level.

  • This is our 4th time participating in the Swim Around Lido Key with Swim Without Limits and the event is more fun each year that we do it! So yeah, maybe I lost a $1500 drone in the process! Things like that happen and the footage is oh so nice! Congratulations to all the participants! A huge thanks to Dave, Steve, and the rest of the organizers who put on such an awesome event!

  • Tips for keeping your kids safe as local pools open this month

  • One Canadian father took on the challenge to raise money for his daughter’s synchronized swimming team by creating a team of his own.

    Christian Gosselin recruited other dads from his daughter’s swimming team. Then, came the birth of his  synchronized swimming team, Synchro Team. The fathers are not only raising money for the club, but they’re also hoping to bring attention to the sport.

    It’s no easy task though, Gosselin may have underestimated his expectations of the sport. Once he entered the pool the difficulty of synchronized swimming might have surprised him.

    “You have that kind of perception of how hard it could be, but then when you actually get in the water and start trying to put the nose clips on, getting upside down… it’s very difficult,” says Gosselin on his experience of synchronized swimming.

    See KWWL