See Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist David Carry has been appointed to the board of directors at Swimming Scotland.
Carry retired after the 2012 London Olympics , but won gold in the 400m freestyle and individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
He now works as a business coach for Red Sky Management.
“I hope to help create a positive and lasting impact to swimming in Scotland,” said Carry.
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10 On Your Side Special Report: Treading Water
See wavy.com, via Diversity In Aquatic
The barriers keeping African Americans from learning to swim is a difficult subject to talk about. There are stereotypes that black people cannot swim. That is not what this story is about. Almost everyone is capable of learning to swim. This story is about the barriers that keep African Americans from learning to swim, and how too often those barriers put us, your neighbors, friends and loved ones in danger.[…Â ]
“Parents taught their kids growing up to stay away from the water, and stay away from the river,” Potts said. “It was almost like saying don’t touch that it’s hot; you’re going to get burnt.”
This scenario has played out all across the country for years. A study by USA Swimming found that fear is one of the strongest barriers keeping black kids from learning and it was passed from generation to generation.
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★STOCKPORT METRO SWIMMING★ From beginners to Olympians
Stockport Metro‘s vision is to provide swimmers with the optimum environment and the right opportunities at each stage of their development to enable them to achieve excellence. We will continue to strive for gold medal success through the provision of seamless pathways from early skill development to the Olympic podium. -
CC photo #509: Warmup at Danish Youth Champs 2008
Just a photo from the Danish Youth Championships back in 2008.
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Warning over low number of British pupils who can swim
More children may drown without better school swimming provision, the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has warned.
Half of seven- to 11-year-olds in England, some 1.1 million children, cannot swim the length of a standard pool, research suggests.
Only 2% of schools surveyed delivered the government’s recommended 22 hours a year of swimming lessons.
See also story here on swimming.org/asa
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Cameron van der Burgh Photoshoot
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Cullen Jones gets kids swimming in New York
Read EnstarsWith the Rio Olympics still years away, Olympic medalist Cullen Jones is taking time out to give back through the sport he loves.
Jones made a stop in Harlem, NY, last week to promote USA Swimming Foundation’s Make A Splash initiative, as part of the group’s national tour. Make A Splash is the national swimming group’s anti-drowning program, which hopes to teach children safety techniques and basics of the sport; its motto is “Saving Lives, Building Champions.”
Image courtesy of WBUR Boston’s NPR News Station, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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SA coach Graham Hill accepts blame for lack of female swimmers
Read sport24South Africa’s national swimming coach, Graham Hill, says he is partly to blame for the country not having world class female swimmers.
This comes after top men’s performer, Cameron van der Burgh, claimed that the country’s female swimmers are not willing to sacrifice enough in order to reach the top.
Van der Burgh said women are reluctant to give up four, six or eight years of their lives – and that’s why they don’t reach the top.
“They’re not prepared to make sacrifices. That includes their physical condition (broad shoulders and muscles), because they don’t want to look like men,” he said.
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Davis Tarwater inspires kids to sign up for swim team
Read wbir.comKids from around Knoxville got the chance to meet an Olympian and learn more about a summer swimming program.
Sign ups for Emerald Youth’s swim team’s seventh season started Tuesday. Gold medal winning swimmer Davis Tarwater spoke to the kids about his own swimming experiences and helped register the kids for the team.
Tarwater says he hopes he can help encourage kids to get involved with swimming.
“Knowing what the sport’s meant to me, to be able to turn around and give back and encourage kids that they can do it, hopefully they can see me and see that I’ve been able to go through the sport and achieve a high level of success,” he said.
Hear also Tarwater talking on “Sports Animal” about supporting Boston bombing victim Nicole Gross and family.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
