Former Olympian and Swedish national coach Glen Christiansen visited Lebanon this week, for the second time this year, leading a 6 day training camp for Lebanese youth, 40 in total aged 8 to 17, spanning from relative beginners to elite swimmers. Plus had two-hour sessions for adults in the evening, in addition to the all-day youth sessions. What an amazingly good job, promoting our great sport in a war-torn country. Via simma.nu/se
When thinking about career options with high salaries, lifeguarding is probably not one of the first jobs to come to mind. But it apparently should. In Newport Beach, lifeguards are compensated well, when compared, say, to the county annual median household income is $71,735. Even excluding benefits like health care and pension, more than half the lifeguards receive a total salary, including overtime pay, exceeding $100,000. And they also receive an annual allowance of $400 for “Sun Protection.” And probably get all the girls too. Read more here on the Orange County Register.
(The only video I found on the issue right now. I don’t necessarily agree on his point of view, as lifeguards in my view perform an at least as important job as for instance some stock broker burning his own and other people’s money)
Tomorrow Thursday May 12 at 6:20 PM Eastern Time (22:20 UTC), Cullen Jones and Josh Schneider will fight for the last spot on the US World Championship team, in a 50 meter freestyle swim-off at the Charlotte UltraSwim. With an official webcast transmitting live on Ustream, we are all ready, for instance on swimmersdaily.com/live. Read more here on wcnc.com.
At 16, swimmer Missy Franklin is rapidly rising through ranks, leading Michael Phelps and everyone else in this season’s Grand Prix standings. Read a lot more here on USA Today.
Informative video by the Lee Memorial Health System, advocating these layers of protection: Supervision (“water watchers”), pool gates, alarms and having an emergency plan. View More Health Matters video segments at leememorial.org/healthmatters/
Drowning Prevention from Lee Memorial Health System on Vimeo.
“Excuse me, but could you go any more slower?” :-)
Experience from University College South Denmark suggest that if exercise is an integral part of an education, fewer fail and more people get high marks. 40 nursing students got the opportunity to exercise 3 times a week during lunch hour, resulting in their overall module 1 grade point average jumping up to 6.51, compared to 4.74 in 2009 and 3.80 in 2010. They say that it is too early to make any firm conclusion, but think that all programs should consider incorporating exercise and sports, as a win for the students but also to society that may have a better and healthier population. Via dsr.dk.
[Image courtesy of Mike Baird, CC BY 2.0]
Todays edition of the Morning Swim Show featuring highlights from last weekend’s Fran Crippen SafeSwim event. Watch the full show in the video player below and visit SwimmingWorld.TV for more video interviews. Via SwimmingWorld Magazine.
Not so much about swimming, but that’s beside the point.
