Swimmer's Daily

  • From chilling out listening to Muse to her must-do race rituals, freestyle specialist, Melani Costa, reveals a few secrets as we quiz the Spanish swimmer during our video interview.

  • allison-schmittRead ESPN

    Swim, sleep, repeat. We swim from 7 to 8:45 a.m., then do dry-land exercises or weights from 9 to 10. I go home and eat a big breakfast, take a three-hour nap, have a snack for lunch and head back for practice number two.

    The not-so-rigorous part. After the second practice, I come back home, lie around until I’m hungry, have dinner, then lie around some more. Pretty glamorous, huh? You may not have known that being a pro athlete comes with the title “professional napper,” as well. Sleeping seems to be a huge part of my day because it’s the quickest way for me to try and recover fast enough for the next practice. I’m lucky I can sleep anywhere — I have slept on a bench at an amusement park when necessary!

    (A video from back in 2012)

  • See naplesnews.com

    Katie Kramer, 21, will dive into the Strait of Gibraltar from Tarifa, Spain sometime between May 10 and May 16.

    If she has it her way, the next time she touches land, she’ll be in Africa.

    Kramer, a Naples High School swimming star and the daughter of Naples High School football coach Bill Kramer, is attempting to be the youngest American woman to swim the Strait of Gibraltar.

    “I feel as prepared as I could be,” said Kramer, who booked her chance to swim the Strait of Gibraltar in October 2012. “It’s definitely going to be a physical challenge I’m a (Division 1) swimmer and the physical aspects shouldn’t be the hardest part, but mentally it’s going to be tough. A lot of people do it in groups of two to four. I’m doing it solo.”

  • See wxxv25.com

    A three year old boy had a close call on Monday. He nearly drowned in a swimming pool. Eye witnesses say one minute a small boy was playing and the next he was floating lifelessly in the pool just outside his apartment. It happened at around 2:30 p.m. Monday.

    According to the eyewitness, the young boy was at the pool with caregivers. The witness says the young boy was making lots of noise and then all of a sudden, the noise stopped. That’s when the witness and the caregivers looked at the pool and they saw the boy floating lifelessly on his back with his head above the water. The male caregiver pulled the boy out of the water and paramedics arrived within minutes. It was a happy ending to a scary event.

  • From back in April

    A Great White Shark attacked our boat last week in S.A. – a tough inflatable zodiac! One of the pontoons popped and it started to sink. Watch the amazing attack.

    http://youtu.be/SCUc3U8WVMo

  • Swimming with Beautiful Manta rays of the coast of Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia. It doesn’t get much better than this! On a diving and snorkelling trip to Nusa Penida we encountered a group of Manta Rays who certainly weren’t shy and seemed to be showing off for us. Such an incredible experience and now i can’t wait to go again!

    SWIMMING WITH MANTA RAYS from owain lacey on Vimeo.

  • Wow

    USC Swim & Dive Open Video from Van Wagner Big Screen Network on Vimeo.

  • Gannets. Awesome

    Birds That Swim = Godlike from GagsBox on Vimeo.

  • Five- time Olympic Swimmer, Dara Torres, joins KITV May 5th 2014 in a LIVE interview to talk about her swim campaign.