Swimmer's Daily

  • America has been horrified by the extent of the abuse by gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, but within another group of athletes who have spent countless hours of training, some say they too have been sexually assaulted by their coaches.

    The sport is swimming. Scores of women say they’ve been victimized and that swimming officials didn’t do enough to protect them.

    Laura Weiss was a freshman at an Indianapolis high school when she says her swim coach, Chris Wheat, began sexually abusing her.

    โ€œI had never even kissed a boy,โ€ she told Inside Edition. โ€œOne afternoon after practice, he asked me to come to his office. He closed the door and that was the first time he molested me and I was 14.โ€

    Read Inside Edition

    https://youtu.be/gK88rGukDXI

  • How cool is this? Watch as swimmers in Oslob, Philippines find themselves surrounded by giant Whale Sharks!

  • Climate change and shrinking sea ice is impacting polar bear populations and their ability to forage for food and to produce healthy cubs. BYU biology professor Blaine Griffen analyzed polar bear data from the U.S. Geological Survey and calculated the metabolic rate of polar bears for different activities. He found that it takes five times as much energy for a polar bear to swim than it does for a bear to walk. Since bears are being forced to swim to forage for food since they can’t walk across sea ice, this is having a negative impact on the health of the bears and species survival.

  • Natural health expert and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola interviews Russian Olympic swimmer Arkady Vyatchanin on his experience with the standard American diet (SAD) and how it affects the performance of athletes in the U.S.

    https://youtu.be/YeOja98sSsA

    https://youtu.be/zn-oarprYaE

  • Former Princeton Women’s Swimming & Diving Coach Susan Teeter of Princeton talks about things clubs can do to make to gain the attention of potential sponsors.

  • Our little penguin (kororฤ) patients ลŒhope and Desmond take a swim at our Vet Hospital!

    Some of you may remember little ลŒhope from the stories weโ€™ve made on his progress ever since he arrived as a chick in October of last year. Youโ€™ll be pleased to know that ลŒhope is now eating his adult food without any assistance from our vets!

    Vet nurse Celine explains that Desmond arrived at our Vet Hospital from a similar place as ลŒhope, after being found with a big abdominal wound that our vets suspect was from a dog bite โ€“ the greatest threat to our little penguins.

    Please make sure to keep your dogs on a leash around little penguin nests as they return to the same nesting sites each season. This at risk species is found around the coastlines of New Zealand and on off-shore islands like Waiheke Island.

  • She’s the Coast Guard’s first ever woman selected from the time she was a recruit, to be a rescue swimmer. She is also only 18-years-old.

  • https://youtu.be/uJw7fYdJhRs

  • Fun, Fitness, Friendship: Get Swim Social in 2018!