Swimmer's Daily

  • An Ironman is designed to push the human body to it’s breaking point. Triathlete, Heather Jackson gives some insight as to what it takes to be an Ironman.

  • Two Roane State Community College educators are more than halfway through their bid to break the world record for consecutive days spent living underwater.

    Bruce Cantrell, associate professor of biology, and Jessica Fain, adjunct instructor, are living in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, a small underwater lodge located in the Florida Keys.

    “You never know what’s going to swim by,” Cantrell told WBIR in a Friday afternoon Skype interview. “The first week we had a manatee swim by.”

    The current world record of 69 days was set in 1992. Cantrell and Fain plan on living underwater for a total of 72 days. They went underwater Oct. 3 and will resurface on Dec. 15.

    See WBIR

  • In anticipation of the film’s opening at the Starz Denver Film Festival tomorrow, Touch The Wall has released this clip of the movie where D.A. and Dick Franklin talk about Missy Franklin learning to swim during her early development as a swimmer.

    The footage includes a lot of home movie clips, showing that Missy was Missy even when she was extremely young.

    See SwimmingWorld

  • In the first meet of her senior year, Katie Ledecky wore a cap belonging to a swimmer from another school who was seriously injured in a car crash.

    Ledecky, the Olympic 800m freestyle champion and multiple world record holder, swam for Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart while wearing a Gonzaga College High School swim cap in a meet involving both schools.

    Ledecky’s cap had the name “Johannessen” on it. It belongs to Patrick “PJ” Johannessen, a Gonzaga senior swimmer who was seriously injured in a two-car crash that killed one student on Nov. 1.

    Read NBC OlympicTalk

  • A Westfield mother is taking her daughter’s story of rape public.

    Monica Strzempko’s daughter, Anna, alleges she was raped for two and a half years at the hands of a local swim coach.

    But Anna’s story of alleged sexual abuse is just part of what appears to be a nation-wide problem in the world of swimming.

    “I remember once Anna told me it was like cocaine, she would do anything for his approval,” Monica said.

    See CBS3 Springfield

    CBS 3 Springfield – WSHM

  • A popular Potomac recreational club is drowning in disbelief, after falling victim to a $70,000 embezzlement scheme.

    On Oct. 24, Montgomery County Police pinned nine felony theft charges against Amelia Hillman, 49, of Potomac. Hillman, police say, used her position as treasurer of the Tallyho Swim & Tennis Club to launder tens of thousands of dollars over a number of years.

    “It’s very shocking to hear something like that. You definitely don’t expect it in your swim club, and you don’t expect it in this neighborhood,” Hillman’s neighbor and former Tallyho member Andy McClymont said.

    See ABC7

  • Saturday 8th November 2014, Svein Aasjord and Trond Ivarsøy were out in their small boat on Kaldfjorden (‘the cold fjord’) in Kvaløya (‘whale island’), Norway, when they saw several whales in the distance, feeding on the herring that the fjords are packed with at this time of year. They shut down the engine, as not to disturb the whales, and the whale in return came closer.

    A lot closer.

    See the video here on tv2.no

  • Magnussen finished the 2014 long course season with a crippling back complaint that often meant he struggled to get out of bed in the mornings and has since quit training with his coach Brant Best as he reshapes his program for a two-year push to the 2016 Rio Olympics.

    The 23-year-old dual world champion is yet to confirm his official new coach, believed to be former Port Macquarie squad teammate Mitch Falvey, but is back in the pool and busy preparing for his world title defence in Kazan next year.

    But Magnussen’s major goal is to win the gold medal in Rio, with the 46.91 second world record set by Brazil’s Cesar Cielo during the supersuit era also a mark he wants to dismantle.

    In an interview with the BBC, Magnussen revealed he’d been chasing a 46 second 100m freestyle swim since he was 16.

    “I can achieve it,” Magnussen said.

    “It’s a realistic goal of mine that before the end of my career I’d like to drop below that 47 second barrier.

    “I remember when I was about 16 I said to my coach ‘I’d love to do something nobody else has ever done.’

    “He said ‘well 47 seconds.’ I said ‘yeah do you think people can swim 46 seconds?’ He said ‘I don’t know but you could always give it a try.’

    Read Herald Sun and see BBC

  • Chad le Clos, fresh from winning the World Cup series again, will head into the world short course championships next month with his eye on three world records.

    He came tantalisingly close in the past few weeks in all three butterfly races, missing out by split seconds. Le Clos goes into the competition in Doha, from December 3-7, ranked No1 in the world in the 50m, 100m and 200m butterfly events.

    More impressive is that his best times over the three distances are considerably lower than the current world short course championship marks, which were all posted at the last gala, in Istanbul in 2012.

    “Chad could go big,” predicted Graham Hill, the coach of the South African team and Le Clos’s mentor. “He could get three golds and three world records.”

    Read BDLive