Swimmer's Daily

  • jack-bauerleRead Savannah Now

    The University of Georgia announced Friday that swimming and diving coach Jack Bauerle was suspended from “all job-related responsibilities effective immediately” after receiving a notice of allegations of NCAA violations.

    The NCAA alleged in the notice issued Wednesday that Bauerle made “special arrangements” on Dec. 10, 2013, with a professor to add men’s swimmer Chase Kalisz to a course for the fall 2013 semester. Classes for the semester already had ended and final exams were underway.

    Kalisz, a sophomore from Bel Air, Md., received a passing grade on Dec. 16 “despite not completing any work for the class,” according to the NCAA letter to UGA president Jere Morehead.

    The case is considered a “severe breach of conduct,” according to the NCAA notice that alleged Bauerle violated NCAA bylaws.

  • Read okcfox

    With temps heating up, you may have your sights set on the swimming pool.  It won’t be long before your kids will be begging to cool off and splash around.

    But before they do, there’s an important warning from safety experts, as our state is third in the nation in the number of drownings.

    Whether at the lake or the neighborhood pool,  Fun in the water too often turns deadly in our state.

    “Drowing is the second leading cause of death for children 2 to 14 in Oklahoma,” said Katie Mueller, director of Safe Kids Oklahoma.

    That’s why water safety education is essential.

  • Kate ZieglerRead Stack

    Endurance athletes are known to be voracious eaters—especially during their peak training months (look no further than Michael Phelps’ 12,000-calorie-per-day diet ahead of the London Games). So you might be surprised to learn that Kate Ziegler, a two-time Olympian and four-time World Champion swimmer, powers her performance with fruits, veggies, whole grains and legumes. The 25-year-old Ziegler says her vegetarian diet gives her more energy while speeding recovery between meets and practices. STACK spoke with Ziegler to find out why she became a vegetarian and just how much quinoa it takes to power all of those laps in the pool.

    Ziegler: For the longest time, I ate meat and I didn’t really pay attention to my diet. When I was about 20, I started to focus more on my diet. I wasn’t removing snack foods from my diet then, but I was adding in more fruits and vegetables. I then started focusing on a fruit, vegetable and plant-based diet, and I just felt so much better. After that, I started reading about the nutritional aspect of it, the environmental aspect, and that sold me on it, I suppose. So about a year and a half ago, I went vegetarian.

  • gareth-keanRead The New Zealand Herald

    Olympic swimmer Gareth Kean has decided to take a break away from the sport but few reasons have been given for his sudden departure.

    The 22-year-old will miss next week’s national championships in Auckland, which double as the Commonwealth Games trial.

    Kean, who won a silver medal at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in the 200m backstroke, said he needs some time away after more than a decade dedicated to the sport.

    “I just don’t have the passion that it takes to be the best I can be right now,” Kean said. “I believe I could qualify for Glasgow but I do not want to go there to make up the numbers. If I am not in the sort of shape to win a gold medal, then I am not doing justice to myself, my family and to the public of New Zealand. Right now I am struggling to make that commitment.”

  • See nrk.no, there is a nice video interview with her also, in Norwegian.

    Ingvild Snildal can’t find the motivation again. Therefore, one of Norway’s best swimmers ever retires at the age of 25.

    ‘The last half year I have felt that I am comfortable as a normal person who isn’t an elite athlete, Ingvild Snildal says to NRK.

    The swimmer has thought about it since last season, and has now decided that the career is over.

    ‘I actually realised it already in autumn. I felt it was nice to be able to sleep in, to not have to go up at five for practice, and to not be dead tired all the time,’ she explains.

  • runa-imaiRead The Japan News

    There are high hopes that a new swimming star will emerge at this month’s Japan national swimming championships, although “star” might not be the appropriate word for 13-year-old Runa Imai.

    Imai, whose first name is based on the word Luna, the Roman goddess embodying the moon, finished third in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke last year. She aims to reach the top spot at this year’s meet, which starts April 10 at Tatsumi International Pool in Tokyo.

    The championships serve as the qualifier for the Asian Games, to be held in Incheon, South Korea, this autumn.

    (more…)

  • See KENS5

    A group of parents and students came to the defense of a high school coach who they said did no wrong in making swimmers do bear crawls on the track.

    In a story KENS 5 brought you first on Monday, a former swimmer at Reagan High School in the Northeast ISD said the head swim coach punished several swimmers because they were late to practice in February. The girls were made to do bear crawls on the track. The punishment left one swimmer, Stacia Trujillo, with blisters on her hands and bruises on her body.

    In defense of the coach, several swimmers said bear crawls are part of their training. One swimmer said she did bear crawls along with Trujillo. She said the coach didn’t realize the exercise hurt their hands.

    “‘Cause he told us afterwards, like after everything had cooled down, he said he was really sorry and he didn’t want to hurt our hands,” said Bethany Flummer.


    Image courtesy of the U.S. Army, CC BY 2.0

  • Read for instance CTV News and see Brisbane Times

    A large shark killed a woman near her terrified husband and friends as they took their daily morning swim Thursday off a popular Australian east coast beach, police said.

    Christine Armstrong, 63, was taken by the shark as she attempted to swim the 600 metres between the wharf and beach near the village of Tathra, 340 kilometres south of Sydney, police said.

    The victim was some distance from the other five swimmers, including her husband, Rob Armstrong, when they saw a 3-to-4-metre shark nearby, said Police Inspector Jason Edmunds.

    “The group joined up together and did their best to keep the shark at bay, although it didn’t directly attack them,” Edmunds told Nine Network television.

    Locals called it “a tragedy waiting to happen,” see Canberra Times

  • Panic sets in as getting wedged on a radged rock inside a narrow tube underground, while its filling with water, is a proper stupid thing to do…

    Worst caving experience ever….