Swimmer's Daily

  • Gold medal swimmer and 2019 Honda Cup finalist Lilly King shares the heartfelt story behind a memento that reminds her to cherish the little things in life.

    Since 1987, Honda and the Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA) have honored the nation’s top women athletes who have demonstrated excellence in sports, academics and community service.

    Gold-medalist swimmer and Honda Sport Award winner Lilly King’s important reminder

  • Milwaukee Water Commons believes that everyone has a right to fishable, swimmable  rivers and lakes, and that is why they organize and host the Cream City Classic.

    Find out more about Milwaukee Water Commons and the Cream City Classic at https://www.milwaukeewatercommons.org/

    The Cream City Classic: Milwaukee's own open water swim

  • The Daily Beast reports that a water polo team from a California high school sang Nazi songs during an awards ceremony.

    Via BoingBoing, see also ABC 7 Eyewitness News

    Disturbing video shows Garden Grove students giving Nazi salute, singing Nazi song | ABC7

  • Get to Know: MFD Rescue Swimmer Team

  • After swimming for 157 days (1,780 miles) I’m now back enjoying training with no set goal (purely training for the love of it) and will be documenting my athletic adventures as I try new sports and catch up with old friends back on land. This reunion with my ‘high bar’ brobarian (and Olympic legend) Nile Wilson was LONG overdue and did not disappoint (although my hands didn’t enjoy seeing him again, haha)

  • A Virginia Beach man has spent months prepping to swim across Chesapeake Bay on Sept. 5 to raise money for people with special needs.

    Robert Cass said he will  swim between 11 and 14 hours from the Eastern Shore to Buoy 44 in hopes of raising $50,000 for a non-profit that helps people with special needs compete in endurance events, WTKR reported.

    “Today’s just a regular training day, run of the mill,” Cass while during a break from training Thursday. “A little bumpy out there today, but we’re training to swim across the bay for Ainsley’s Angels… to buy special-needs wheelchairs or race chairs so these kids can participate in races.”

    See WTVR

  • A swimmer was left with a severe injury after they were struck by a boat propeller while swimming off Wareham Sunday.

    First responders were called to Bourne Cove around 11:45 a.m. where they found the swimmer on the shoreline. “The WDNR (Wareham Department of Natural Resources) Officer immediately began lifesaving first-aid to control bleeding. Wareham EMS and Fire arrived on scene and stabilized the victim, who was transported to Tobey Hospital,” said the WDNR.

    The boat’s driver did stay on the scene and was trying to help the swimmer before first responders arrived.

    See CBS Boston

    Photo by Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism

  • A treasure-hunting diver recently came upon a lost GoPro camera at the bottom of a waterfall. It turns out it was lost two years ago by a man who drowned there, and the SD card is now providing the victim’s family with closure.

    WSB-TV reports that YouTuber Rich Aloha was diving at Foster Falls in Tennessee and looking for lost treasure when he saw tip of a thumbscrew and then dug up a buried GoPro camera from the muck.

    The SD card inside the camera was working, and after reviewing the footage, Aloha realized that the camera belonged to a man who had drowned at the swimming hole two years ago (something park rangers had told him about).

    See PetaPixel