Swimmer's Daily

  • Read The Republic

    Phelps has slowly started back and now trains just once a day in the afternoon. No double or triple sessions or plowing through thousands of meters a day.

    Call this comeback Phelps 2.0.

    While his workload will go up eventually, for now Phelps is doing half the amount of training he did during the height of career, when he won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

    “I’m sort of experimenting with stuff that I didn’t have the guts to do before, like not swim as far,” Bowman said. “I’m very pleased with how he’s doing.”

    This relaxed approach appears to suit both Phelps and Bowman just fine. Their decades-long partnership — rare in a sport where swimmers frequently change coaches — survived fiery clashes as Phelps grew up and rebelled against Bowman’s hard-nosed ways.

    “Our last several years together, it really wasn’t much fun for everybody,” the coach said.

    Photo by Vironevaeh

  • See delawareonline

    Just past a sign warning patrons, “If you’ve had diarrhea in the past two weeks don’t use the pool,” six geriatrics shimmied down slick poles on a recent weekday afternoon to blaring club beats.

    Outside, in the retirement home’s well-appointed lobby, a befuddled man struggled to make a call on the new iPhone his son bought him. Inside, Prince reminded the senior aqua pole buffs, “Women, not girls, they rule my world.”

  • See 10News

    Brooke Bennett feels at home in the water. The three-time Olympic gold medalist knows what it’s like to compete at the highest level.

    She also knows what it’s like to swim for noble cause.

    “We want to keep spreading the word,” she said with a smile.

    Bennett spent her Saturday morning teaching kids from local TBAY swim teams tips and techniques they’ll need next month out on the open waters of Clearwater Beach. Bennett will join the non-profit Swim Across America to put on a race designed to raise money to fight cancer.

  • christopher-huottSee WUSA9

    A Maryland swim coach is out on bail, one day after police arrested him on charges of repeatedly abusing a 7-year-old girl three decades ago.

    Christopher Huott put up his hood and had nothing to say after putting up $50,000 in bail money and walking out of the Montgomery County Detention Center.

    Prosecutors say his victim went to police alleging her then swim coach fondled her and had her perform oral sex on him starting when she was just 7 and ending when she turned 12.

    Huott is the founder and owner of the the popular Maryland Suburban Swim Club at Fairland Aquatics Center in Laurel.

    Laurel Police and Montgomery County prosecutors say he may have victimized other children since then. And they are urging those victims to come forward.

  • See myfoxdfw.com

    Synchronized swimming onstage by fifth grade boys – it’s an amusing sight that’s gone viral, shared online more than 130,000 times.

    No water is needed. The boys can kick, flutter and dive on cue onstage.

    Boys Grayson, Mason, Jack, Trent, Matthew and Drew are better known as the Porter Elementary synchronized swimmers.

    Mason’s mom came up with the idea for their school talent show last summer after watching a similar skit on YouTube, but they had to start from scratch.

    “They had no experience with what synchronized swimming was, so we had to show them…they had to understand it was a serious sport, and they couldn’t just get up here and act like goofballs,” said Mason’s mom, Jennifer Mallory.

  • joseph-michael-diazSee Gainesville.com and GTN News

    A teacher and part-time swim coach has been arrested on allegations that, over the course of several years, he sexually battered one boy he coached and coerced another into taking nude photographs and sexually explicit videos of himself.

    Gainesville police say it’s likely additional victims will be identified as their investigation continues.

    Joseph Michael Diaz, 31, of 3003 NW 30th Terrace, was arrested Friday at 1:15 p.m. — his second arrest within 24 hours in connection with the unfolding string of allegations. He is a behavioral resource teacher for kindergarten through fourth grade at High Springs Community School and was a part-time swim coach at Makos Aquatics Club of Gainesville.

    GTN – Gainesville Television Network

  • See wowktv.com

    Many kids plan on diving into the summer by taking a swim in the pool. But this year, many parents are saying not so fast.

    “I just don’t feel it’s safe,” said Miranda Dunlap, whose 5-year-old son loves going to the pool. “I know they say it is safe to drink, but I just don’t trust it.”

    Ever since the Freedom Industries chemical leak contaminated the drinking water for 300,000 WV American Water customers, families have been cautious about everything. Those previously nervous about cooking and bathing with tap water are now afraid of swimming in it.

    “They’re surrounded by water [when they swim],” said Dunlap. “It’s getting into every single pore, so it’s definitely more exposure.”

    WOWK 13 Charleston, Huntington WV News, Weather, Sports

  • brian-mcraeSee CBC News

    A Calgary firefighter was awarded the Medal of Bravery by the Governor General at a ceremony in Ottawa on Thursday for saving four people from drowning in the ocean.

    Brian McRae was in Veradero, Cuba, for a friend’s wedding three years ago when — twice in one day — he had to spring into action to save two separate pairs of swimmers after they got caught in dangerous rip tides.

  • raymond-rothRead Wantagh-Seaford Patch

    A Massapequa man who faked his own death to collect insurance money was ordered to spend up to seven years in prison, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.

    Raymond Roth, 49, was sentenced Thursday to spend between two and seven years in jail for concocting a plan to collect life insurance money by pretending to drown in Jones Beach.