Swimmer's Daily

  • The Great Blue Hole, a giant ocean sinkhole off the coast of Belize, is a beautiful and mysterious sight. Now, researchers working on an expedition of the sinkhole have released the first 3D maps of its interior and a minidocumentary on their submarine trip, including how they found mysterious marks and the bodies of long-lost divers at the bottom of the chasm. […]

    “There were…these odd tracks, crisscrossing circles right around the center of the hole with no indication of what had made them. Mostly it was quiet and dark down there,” Bergman added. “We also encountered the resting place for two of the divers who’ve been lost in the hole. We notified the local authorities, and everyone agreed to leave them undisturbed. They are at peace.”

    See geek.com

    https://youtu.be/OqdGaamwg2Q

    Photo by 2ilorg

  • UCLA’s Maria Polyakova named the Pac-12 Women’s Diver of the Year for the second time of her career after winning two Pac-12 crowns at the conference championships. The senior won the 1-meter (335.70) and 3-meter (350.70) springboards for her third and fourth career titles at the championships to earn Pac-12 Diver of the Meet, as voted on by the league coaches. Polyakova became the first-ever UCLA diver to win an individual NCAA Championship after taking home the 3-meter crown (396.00) for the program’s first individual title since Annette Salmeen won the 200-yard butterfly in 1996.

  • Cal’s Abbey Weitzeil was named the 2019 Pac-12 Women’s Swimmer of the Year after winning three individual events and contributing to four relay victories at the conference championships where she earned Pac-12 Swimmer of the Meet honors. She set a Cal and Pac-12 meet record in the 100-yard freestyle touching in at 46.35 and later won the 200 free with a personal-best time of 1:41.97. At the NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, Weitzeil won an individual NCAA title, broke three NCAA records and topped the podium in four relay events to help California earn a runner-up finish for the third-consecutive year.

    Cal's Abbey Weitzeil named 2019 Pac-12 Women's Swimmer of the Year

  • Hear from Coach Mandy Commons-DiSalle and members of the Bearcats’ swimming and diving team as they look back on the season and talk about being back to back men’s swimming and diving champions.

    Cincinnati Swimming and Diving: Back to Back Champs

  • 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 Ireland IOSC19 Records Round Up

  • 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.

    Read swimmming.org

  • 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.

    Stanford's Taylor Ruck earns Pac-12 Women's Freshman Swimmer of the Year Honors