Swimmer's Daily

  • San Jose, CA (January 27, 2016) – With the big year ahead for swimming and other aquatics sports, SwimOutlet.com has unveiled its first-ever Team SwimOutlet group of athletes. World silver medalist Cammile Adams, 2015 world champion Haley Anderson, teenage phenom Michael Andrew, four-time Olympian Tony Azevedo and the USA Synchro Olympic duet team are all part of Team SwimOutlet for 2016.

    “We wanted to support a mix of swimmers and other stars from aquatics sports in this Olympic year and we’re incredibly excited to work with such a great group of talented athletes who will make up our Team SwimOutlet,” said Alexander Sienkiewicz, Chief Marketing Officer at Spiraledge, the parent company of SwimOutlet.com. “Each athlete has one big goal on their minds this year and we’re excited to be along for the ride in 2016.”

    As part of Team SwimOutlet, athletes will provide content and blogs to SwimOutlet and be featured on the SwimOutlet.com website. Several members of Team SwimOutlet will also appear on SwimOutlet.com’s new Snapchat (@swimoutlet) throughout the year, highlighting their training and preparations for Rio, while Michael Andrew will be part of a unique “Train for a Day with Michael Andrew” contest on Instagram this spring.

    “Since our launch in mid-December, Snapchat has grown faster than any other social channel which we’ve debuted in recent years. It’s a great platform to highlight the unique personalities and daily routines of these stars,” added Sienkiewicz. Team SwimOutlet blogs, social media and contests will be featured on SwimOutlet.com starting in February.

    Team SwimOutlet

    Cammile Adams (@CammileAdams) – 2012 Olympian and world silver medalist in the 200m butterfly at 2015 World Championships. She trains with the elite team at SwimMAC in North Carolina and graduated from Texas A&M in 2014.

    Haley Anderson (@SwimHaley) – 2012 Olympic silver medalist and 2013 & 2015 FINA world champion in 10km open water swimming, Anderson switched from pool swimming to focus primarily on open water swimming the past few years. Anderson hails from a swimming family with sister Alyssa winning gold in London and her younger sister competing collegiately. Anderson trains out of Los Angeles, CA and qualified for Rio at the 2015 FINA World Championships 10km race in Kazan, Russia.

    Michael Andrew (@SwimmerMichael)– World Jr. Champion at 50m backstroke, Andrew is a rising talent who was named “Male Swimmer of the Meet” at the 2015 World Jr. Championships. He has a unique workout regimen with his father/coach Peter in Lawrence, Kansas, as part of the Ultra Short Race Pace Training program. Age 16, Andrew has set over 80 national age group records and won the 200m IM at 2015 U.S. Jr. Nationals.

    Tony Azevedo (@WaterPoloTony) – A four-time Olympian, 2008 Olympic silver medalist and 5x Pan Am champion, Azevedo is one of the greatest water polo players in U.S. history and captain of the U.S. team. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1981, the 2016 Games will have special meaning for the Brazilian-born, American-raised Azevedo. The U.S. Men’s National Team qualified for Rio with their gold medal at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. Named by the Pac-12 as Water Polo Player of the Century in 2015.

    Anita Alvarez/Mariya Koroleva (@anitaaalvarez / @mkoroleva) – Selected to represent the U.S. in the duet at 2016 Olympics, Alvarez and Koroleva will compete for qualification at the Olympic Test Event in Rio this March. They finished in the top 12 at the 2015 World Championships and top 6 at the prestigious French Open last year. Koroleva competed at the 2012 London Games. They train at SODA Aquatic Center in Moraga, CA.

    About SwimOutlet.com

    SwimOutlet.com is the largest online specialty store for aquatics in the United States. The online retail store grew out of a dedication to providing the best goods and services to anyone interested in aquatic activities and sports. SwimOutlet.com has the largest selection for swimming, water polo, fashion, beach and surf! In addition to having an extensive selection and the lowest prices, SwimOutlet.com offers best-in-class customer service and shipping. The company has won the hearts of over two million customers who’ve helped spread the word on where to find the best deals. SwimOutlet.com’s partners include the Fitter & Faster Swim Tour Presented by SwimOutlet.com, U.S. Masters Swimming, Swim Across America, National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association and Aquatics Division of the American Physical Therapy Association. SwimOutlet.com is also the official online retailer for USA Swimming.

    For more information, visit www.swimoutlet.com, Facebook.com/swimoutlet, twitter/instagram/Snapchat @swimoutlet.

    Press release from SwimOutlet.com

  • While he may be part of the university swim team and aiming for an Olympic medal, Schooling is still very much the average boy.

    https://youtu.be/ndZv2KvRFag

  • Around the Island Swim in Langebaan. A well organized yearly event.
    Next date: 16 April 2016

  • An Icelandic elementary school has removed gender signs from its bathrooms in an effort to become “gender neutral”. The principal thinks that other schools should do the same. […]

    And removing gender signs from restroom isn’t the only change the school has brought about this year. It has also changed one of the instructions regarding swimming lessons, in a memo that is sent home to parents. Instead of the typical phrasing of “girls should wear swimsuits and boys should wear swimtrunks”, it simply states that children should wear appropriate swim-attire, without categorizing which gender should wear what.

    “We don’t see anything wrong with girls wearing trunks at the swimming pool, if they want to, or boys wearing a swimsuit. The kids can simply choose which one to use.”

    Read gayiceland.is

  • GoPro action camera users can now broadcast their daring adventures live through Twitter’s Periscope app, opening the door to a whole new dimension of real-time video sharing.

    The live-streaming app announced on Tuesday that it was now integrated with GoPro, meaning that the sometimes insane footage captured on wearable cameras can now find a much larger audience – one that is drawn to the attraction of watching events on their phones as the action unfolds.

    With the new feature, people with GoPro cameras can connect their devices to WiFi, open Periscope on an iPhone, tap the “broadcast” button and immediately go live. With a double tap, users can switch between broadcasting from the GoPro and the smartphone camera, and the GoPro will continue to record the footage while it streams.

    Periscope – the app that attracted 10 million users in its first four months last year– has enabled journalists, entertainers, politicians and others to broadcast live to the public directly from their phones.

    Read The Guardian

  • In the future, there will be no escape from robotic observation. Proof (if proof were needed) comes in the form of Loon Copter, a drone developed by Oakland University’s Embedded Systems Research Laboratory that can not only fly, but also land on and even navigate under the water’s surface. The Loon Copter project has been around a while, but this latest prototype is much more polished, and a semifinalist in the 2016 Drones for Goodcompetition.

    At a glance, the Loon Copter looks much like a conventional quadcopter, just with a taller, barrel-like body. The drone can land and float on water,much like other craft, but its party trick is the ability to fill its buoyancy chamber, causing it to safely sink to a few meters beneath the surface. The clever design causes the Loon to tilt 90 degrees in the water, so that its propellors act like outboard motors, letting it navigate the (not very deep) blue like other subaquatic robots. When the water is released, the Loon floats back to the surface, at which point it can take to the skies again.

    Read engadget

  • In December 2016, Windsor will welcome up to 1,000 of the world’s top swimmers from over 175 countries as they compete for World Championship glory in the 13th edition of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m.) Expected to draw more than 35,000 spectators, this elite competition will bring the world’s best swimmers together to compete for 46 gold medals over 6 days in a temporary world championship pool to be constructed within the WFCU Arena.

    See finawindsor2016.com

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  • Sporting bare feet and a shiny necktie, Rujing Tang sat in his dining room and wandered back in time. When he was 10, about the age of his fresh-faced fifth-grade daughter, one of his childhood friends went out to swim in a small river in his birthplace of Shanghai. He never came back.

    That haunting memory, and Tang’s own near drowning in an Oklahoma state park years later, prompted the financial planner cum inventor to develop a water rescue system that uses drones to deliver a flotation device to distressed swimmers. Telecom giant Verizon was impressed enough to award the project $250,000 last month as part of the company’s 2015 Powerful Answers Award contest.

    The yearlong challenge drew 1,400 entries from 78 countries. The contest is designed to help discover and bring to market “technologies that show promise for addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges” in emergency response, transportation and health care, the company said.

    The first-place winner in each category collects $1 million.

    Read The Dallas Morning News

  • Paramedics treated nine people in one day last week for swimming-related injuries, including one near drowning in the Yarra River.

    According to Ambulance Victoria four adults, four teenagers and a child were taken to hospital after separate incidents at various beaches and the Yarra on Sunday, January 17.

    The incidents follow a warning from peak water safety organisation Austswim that safety was more than just an ability to swim laps.

    Read Herald Sun