“SPLASH” is the Westside Family YMCA’s free water safety program for fourth graders attending local Title I LAUSD schools. During these lessons students develop or improve swimming skills, learn about water safety, and emphasize the importance of character, honesty, respect and responsibility.
All participants emerge from the program with skills to help them be safe in an aquatic environment.
SPLASH – Our Y’s Water Safety Program from Westside Family YMCA on Vimeo.
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The co-founder of a prominent Northern Virginia swim club was sentenced Thursday to serve seven years in prison for sexually abusing a student.
Rick Curl pleaded guilty back in February to abusing Kelley Currin 30 years ago. Currin was a swimmer at the Curl-Burke Swim Club, which Curl co-founded.
Curl was sentenced to 15 years, with all but seven of those suspended, and must complete five years of probation and alcohol treatment. He must also register as a sex offender.
20 year old Roger Auster from the landlocked town of Cirencester in the Cotswolds, talks about his experiences to do with sea swimming in the cold waters around his new home of Falmouth on the south Cornish coast.
Every day, people’s lives are impacted through their involvement with the YMCA.
These are just a few of their stories.
Simi Valley Family YMCA – “You Shared Your Story” from Shawn Cross on Vimeo.
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Davis Aquatic Masters Promo from Peter Fuszard Cinematography on Vimeo.
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Olympic swimmer David Davies, former Wales footballer Malcolm Allen and leading chef Bryn Williams will be honoured by the Gorsedd of the Bards.
Every year people who have made a contribution to Welsh culture or society are chosen as new members for the Eisteddfod Druidic Order.
David Davies, from Barry, won a bronze medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and a silver at Beijing four years later.
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A former swim and water polo coach pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges alleging sex crimes against a teenage girl, according to the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office.
Christopher Yang, 27, of Walnut Creek, was charged in April with nine felonies, including four counts of unlawful sex with a minor. Yang has coached at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek and Campolindo High School in Moraga, but authorities are not saying how he knows the girl.
“This is a regrettable situation for everyone involved, and Mr. Yang accepts responsibility for his lapse in judgment in his brief relationship with the alleged victim,” Yang’s attorney, Marvin Lew, said.
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Capcom has cancelled a Resident Evil: Revelations marketing stunt, which would see an open air swimming pool filled with fake blood and fake human torsos, following an alleged terrorist attack in Woolwich yesterday.
The pool near Hackney Wick Station was to be manned by zombified lifeguards, and feature intestines for lane markers.
Eurogamer reports that Capcom issued the following statement on the matter:
“In light of yesterday’s sad events we’re cancelling our Revelations pool event. Thank you for your understanding.â€
The Woolwich attacks saw one man killed, and two arrested near an army barracks, and is being treated by the UK government as a suspected terrorist act.
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Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula has announced his department will offer financial assistance to cash-strapped Swimming South Africa.
The R2.7 million sponsorship will help the national team’s campaign at the Swimming World Championships in Barcelona.
Mbalula said the sponsorship will make sure South Africa is represented well at the competition and that the funding is a stop-gap measure.
Earlier in 2013, Swimming SA announced it would not have enough cash to sponsor the entire team.
The South African team list can be seen here on swimsa.org
