You can find 17-year-old Braxton Wong in a swimming pool six days, two times a day, perfecting his stroke and trying to beat his personal records.
“I first joined swimming because I thought I just needed exercise, but once I realized ‘wait, I can kind of go fast,’ my times were getting better and better,” said Wong.
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Olympic Swimmer Natalie Hinds Aims to Inspire East Texas Girls at Tyler Event | KETK NBC
Growing up in Midland, Olympic swimmer, and bronze medalist Natalie Hinds said she only dreamed of where she is today.
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Woman Learns Her Pig Can Swim After He Falls Into Arizona Backyard Pool | 12 News
While Holly Scehnet has taken her pet pig of three years all over the country, she never knew if he could swim.
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Freediving Couple Break Guinness World Record for Longest Underwater Kiss | Evening Standard
A Guinness World Record for the longest kiss underwater has been broken by a freediving couple who wanted to “inspire others to fall in love” with the ocean.
The four minutes and six seconds smooch between 40-year-old Beth Neale, from South Africa, and her 33-year-old fiance Miles Cloutier, from Canada, was achieved in the Maldives on February 4.
The previous record of three minutes 24 seconds, which was held by Michele Fucarino and Elisa Lazzaina, was broken after 13 years.
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Steve Collins: Head Coach SMU Women’s Swim & Dive, 32 Olympians, 9 Olympic Games | Shozda Show #003
Steve Collins is one the greatest College Swimming & Diving Coaches of the past 100 years. If you feel encouraged to support this podcast, please visit my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/AlexShozda
In 37 years as Head Coach of the SMU Women’s Swimming and Diving Team Steve has led his mustangs to 17 conference championships, 15 NCAA top-10 finishes, and over 240 all-America honors. He has also coached 32 athletes to compete in nine different Olympic Games.
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Chicagoan Qing Li Wins Gold Medal at Ice Swimming World Championships | FOX 32 Chicago
Competitive ice swimming has only been in existence for ten years. To compete, swimmers can only wear a standard swim suit, goggles and a swim cap as they dive into water that’s less than forty degrees Fahrenheit. Natalie Bomke reports.
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Sofía Rocks the Bahamas | Daan Verhoeven
Sofía Gómez Uribe is a Colombian world record holding freediver. She was in Dean’s blue hole in the Bahamas for Vertical blue, the most prestigious freediving competition of the year, where she came third overall. After the comp, we stayed an extra day to film this – the fourth installment in the ‘Sofía rocks’ series. Sofía hopes to return to VB this year, and crack the 100 meters. She also has a freediving school in Dominica called Deep Dominica.
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Thousands of “Walrus” Swimmers Gather for Annual Polish Winter Swim | Arirang News
Moving on to Poland where a record crowd of almost 9-thousand people gathered for the 20th International Winter Swimming Rally.
Taking place in the northwestern town of Mielno on Sunday, local time the event saw swimmers, from nations including Germany, Ireland, and Hungary plunge into the Baltic Sea with water temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius.
The traditional cold swim is called “morsowanie” in Polish and swimmers are nicknamed “walruses”.
The icy plunge is meant to improve health and boost immunity.
Sunday’s event also included a parade through the local town fitness classes, and a jacuzzi and sauna zone.
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Rockford East’s Camden Taylor Closes the Deal; Holds Every Nic-10 Swimming Record | Eyewitness News WTVO WQRF