Swimmer's Daily

  • Kaley was in the ocean with friends and family Wednesday afternoon and was taking a break from surfing and was wading in waist-deep water when she said she felt a bite, and then saw the shark.

    “She turned and yelled to her friend get out of the water! It’s a shark! So this little girl ran, a friend of our daughter, to go get the moms. And Kaley walked herself out of the ocean,” Szarmack said. “And she realized the 6-year-old was still in the water. So she turned around and went back and got the 6-year-old and took her out of the water. She pulled the little girl back out of the water.”

    Not only did Kaley get herself out of harm’s way after just being bitten by a shark, she went back to help another little girl while she did it.

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  • The 19th-century swimming sensation loved water so much it eventually killed him. But first, 140 years ago today, he swam the English Channel, catapulting himself into fame and his favorite sport into respectability.

    Read Atlas Obscura via Neatorama

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  • SwimOutlet.com, the web’s most popular swim shop, and Rovio, creators of Angry Birdsâ„¢ have agreed to a licensing partnership that will see SwimOutlet.com create a range of swimming and aquatics products for both boys and girls starting in Fall 2015. The products will highlight Rovio’s Angry Birdsâ„¢ line for boys and will emphasize the Angry Birdsâ„¢ Stella characters for girls.

    The range will feature clothing items like rash guards, swimsuits, jammers, board shorts and tankinis, as well as pool and beach accessories such as kick boards, goggles, inflatables, floaties, towels, and flip-flops.

    “These will be high-quality items and fun designs that will cover all recreation and competition swimmers from 4 to 16 years old,” says Winnie So, VP of Sourcing & Product Development at SwimOutlet.com. “They will be products designed and produced by SwimOutlet.com exclusively for SwimOutlet.com, continuing to make us the place to shop online for your whole families’ aquatics needs.”

    Angry Birdsâ„¢ are featured on many goods ranging from clothing to electronics, but never before have they appeared on pool and beachwear.

    “We are excited to make a splash in a fun new product category for us,” says Randi Spieker, Rovio’s VP Consumer Products and Retail, North America. “As the largest online retailer of aquatics in the United States and well known for high-quality swimwear, SwimOutlet.com is a great fit for Rovio and our mission to entertain and delight.”

    Products are expected to go on sale this October at SwimOutlet.com (www.swimoutlet.com/angry-birds/) and will range in prices from $4.95 for arm floats to $26.95 for rash guards and girls’ swimsuits. The line will also feature a full promotional campaign from SwimOutlet.com across its channels including social media, email marketing, online advertising and more.

    The line of Angry Bird aquatics products will be available at SwimOutlet.com at www.swimoutlet.com/angry-birds/

    Press release from SwimOutlet.com

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  • The parents of Singapore’s top swimmer Joseph Schooling tells the Straits Times why they sent Joseph for lessons and recounts the day they started taking his swimming seriously.

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    The story of Duke Kahanamoku–the Hawaiian who, in 1912, first drew the world’s collective gaze upon the art of surfing–reads like mythology. Born in Honolulu in 1890, he is credited in over a dozen feature films, surfed the world’s most imposing swells before Californians knew what surfing was, won five Olympic medals in swimming and was elected sheriff of his beloved home county thirteen times.

  • Open-water swimming sensation Charlotte Samuels made history on Saturday by becoming the first person to swim 21 miles across the New York Bight.

    Samuels, 17, began her journey at approximately 7:20 a.m. on Long Island’s Atlantic Beach and finished on the northern edge of Sea Bright, N.J., at 4:50 p.m. Though the Ridgewood teen had estimated that the swim would take 12 to 16 hours, she ended up cruising to a sub-10-hour finish.

    While 10 hours in the water may seem daunting, it was a relatively smooth ride for Samuels, who last year completed a pair of 20-hour swims en route to becoming the world’s youngest Triple Crown swimmer.

    Read nj.com

  • It was Aug 8, the day of the 100m butterfly final, his last race at the Fina World Championships and that was when Joseph Schooling came closest to the perfect swim he had been chasing in his career.

    But the most extraordinary day of his 20 years had begun just like any other day.

    Said Schooling: “I didn’t think much about the upcoming race. I just treated it like another day… it was pretty much normal for me, nothing too extraordinary.”

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