Swimmer's Daily

  • Setting a World record is already impressive, but winning by this margin is just mind-blowing 🤯

  • David Alleva, Ph.D. swam competitively as a child and teenager. He then went on to represent Indiana University at the NCAA level, majoring in biology. He culminated his swimming career on the professional marathon swimming circuit while obtaining his Ph.D. in immunology, have 12 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and winning races from the United States to Italy. Ultimately, he was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in its Class of 1992. Dr. Alleva then went on to become a scientific leader in drug discovery and the development of immunotherapeutics and vaccines in several biopharmaceutical companies. He has published over 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He developed one of the first antigen-specific immunotherapeutic clinical candidates for Type 1 diabetes and is currently the Executive Director of immunotherapeutics at Akston Biosciences. In this WOWSA Live interview with Steven Munatones, Dr. Alleva summed up the lifelong benefits of interval training by competitive swimmers and collegiate swimmers in a uniquely profound way.

  • Australians are being urged to be aware of the conditions of where they choose to swim this summer after 235 coastal deaths were recorded around the country last year.

    SLSA’s General Manager Coastal Safety Shane Daw told Sky News one of the biggest risks for swimmers was complacency, urging people to be aware of their surroundings before entering the water.

    “It doesn’t matter where it is, what we’ve found is that drowning deaths and other coastal fatalities can happen almost in any spot of Australia,” he said.

    Mr Daw said last year saw the fourth highest number of drowning deaths in the past 16 years.

    Males between the ages of 15 and 36 were also found to be the largest percentage in drownings, with alcohol involved in about 23 per cent of all drownings.

  • Orange Fire Department crews have recovered the body of a man who died when a wall of the swimming pool he was digging in Orange collapsed around him.

    The collapse was first reported at 10:52 a.m. Saturday in the 6200 block of East Cliffway Drive, said Orange Fire Capt. Ryan O’Connor. The man was digging with four other men when part of a wall collapsed around him, and he was buried up to his shoulders, O’Connor said.

    Early Sunday morning, firefighters called a construction company to bring in a crane to help them haul out thousands of pounds of dirt from the backyard where the pool is located, the Orange County Register reported.

    Read NBC Los Angeles

  • A 2018 study revealed only 13% of our oceans are considered truly wild, but what’s worse is this (scary) statistic has gone relatively unnoticed. Why? Well, partly because the sea (and its inhabitants) require a bigger “voice” to be heard. To quote the great Sir David Attenborough “This is a communication challenge rather than a scientific one. We need to make it easy for the world to understand the issues and to enable an increasingly urban population to connect with nature and feel a shared responsibility for it.” Which is exactly why last weekend myself and the Talker team took to the water (equipped with a plentiful supply of bananas) in support of Talisker and Parley on their mission to Rewild Our Seas and created this short film (see link here for more information: https://www.rewildourseas.com)

  • COVID-19 and remote schooling can be challenging enough. But the postponement or cancellation of many school sports has made this year even more stressful for student-athletes.

    Three-time Olympic gold medal swimmer Carrie Bates with the Betty Ford Center in San Diego joined Good Morning San Diego to discuss how the removal of athletics can contribute to mental health issues.

    See KUSI News

  • From in November …

    It was the swim of three lifetimes. Last week, Melbourne girl Chloe McCardel waded into the chill waters of Southern England, determined to become just the fourth person to make a triple crossing of the English Channel. How she found the courage to dive into that rough and unpredictable ocean just amazes us. But every year, hundreds try it, all determined to conquer swimming’s Mt Everest. Maybe if they saw what happened to Chloe, they’d think twice before taking the plunge.

  • This is perhaps the most in-depth/comprehensive discussion on stroke mechanics and technique available anywhere! The amount of insight and knowledge of the technical application of all 4 strokes is truly remarkable and will inspire all coaches to carefully consider how they’re developing their philosophies and how they approach working with their athletes. You will learn what it means to be a “traveler” in the water and why it is critical for athletes to “utilize the value of what they are learning.” 

    Coaches will learn to teach their athletes to articulate their bodies to create power, fluidity, and increase the efficiency of their shape while swimming. Listen to discover why creating “path-seeking tools” assist your swimmers in finding their best organic positions in the water. Jonty jumped right into the discussion! You won’t hear an introduction as Coach was excited to get going!

    Jonty Skinner is a former World-Record holder, NCAA Champion, and a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. In this special edition of Coaches Corner, Jonty and Mike discuss correct technique, the evolving philosophies behind teaching stroke mechanics, and relating information to your athletes.

    This is an episode you won’t want to miss!

  • A $70,000 grant is helping Safe Swim NC teach survival swim lessons to kids in the Triad. 

    Leslie Durm’s youngest son was one of dozens of kids to graduate the six-week program that started in October. 

    Advocates of the Infant Swimming Resource’s Self Rescue program believe ten minutes a day can save a child’s life. 

    Durm and her husband learned that lesson the hard way when one of their daughters slipped underwater in the pool. They were only feet away. 

    “It doesn’t take somebody not paying attention. Don’t judge people,. The water is very dangerous and unforgiving…get them trained,” Leslie said. 

    So to prevent her kids from drowning, she got them back in the water.

    See FOX8