Swimmer's Daily

  • 2012 Olympic Coach and University of Florida head coach Gregg Troy discusses the challenges of training Olympians and a nationally-ranked collegiate program at the same time. He also looks forward to 2016.

  • “A freedive to a depth of 60m (200 feet) and back in 60 seconds flat by William Trubridge.”

  • Read Inside Bay Area

    Cal swim coach Kristen Cunnane will share her inspiring tale of surviving child sex abuse in the Moraga school district in an hour-long show on the Oprah Winfrey Network on Tuesday.

    Cunnane, who’s story was profiled by this newspaper a year ago, will be featured on “Our America with Lisa Ling” at 10 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday on OWN.

    A physical education teacher was convicted of molesting Cunnane over a number of years and the Walnut Creek resident has sued the school district claiming she was abused by two teachers after administrators failed to report earlier abuse as mandated by law.

  • Denmark joins the party! Intro-dancer is 2012 Europeans 200 butterfly silver medalist Viktor Bromer, I’m pretty sure Mie Ø. Nielsen is in that bunch also, and big guy dancing most awesomely is their Icelandic coach ‘Leifi’.

  • Also, Eye of the Tiger

  • “Goodfellow Air Force Base troops participated in the annual Polar Bear Swim.”

    Featuring a talking polar bear (or something)

  • Read The Province

    She did all she could to help her team come close to a title … perhaps for the final time.

    Erica Morningstar, a two-time Olympian, won the 200m IM at the 2013 CIS swimming championships at the University of Calgary’s Aquatic Centre and then promptly announced to the crowd that it was the final meet of a terrific career in the pool, though she stopped short of uttering the word ‘retirement’.

    “I knew coming in that this was going to be my last meet, but I didn’t want to think about it that way because there was lots of racing to do,” said the 23-year-old. “I’m not formally announcing my retirement, but I’m definitely taking a break from swimming for the moment.”

  • Read Fox Sports West

    Tragedy struck the Studio City Harvard-Westlake campus on Friday when junior swimmer Justin Carr was involved in a “tragic swimming accident.” According to the Los Angeles Times, paramedics were called when Carr collapsed during a school workout. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

    Carr was 16 years old.

  • Read stuff.co.nz

    A man is in hospital with multiple broken bones after jumping 15 metres from a cliff above the Waikanae River.

    The 21-year-old, believed to be of Paraparaumu, missed the water and landed on the riverbank about 6pm on Saturday.

    He broke bones in both legs, and suffered spinal injuries. He was reported to be in a stable condition in Wellington Hospital yesterday.

    The accident happened at a spot known as Devil’s Elbow, about 4 kilometres east of Waikanae, towards Reikorangi.