Swimmer's Daily

  • Rich Suhs was last inside the indoor aquatic center he’s owned for 11 years on Tuesday, checking chlorine levels in the two swimming pools where thousands of young girls and boys first learned how to swim.

    “I figured we would lose power at some point,” said Suhs, who is affectionately known as “Coach Rich,” and who has owned and operated the Eastern Shore Aquatic Center on Baldwin County Route 64 since 2009. “Everything was fine when I left.”

    And then Hurricane Sally arrived, overturning Suhs’ livelihood with its intense rainfall and powerful and sustained wind gusts that registered 105 mph. The aquatic center was destroyed, leaving Suhs with a giant mess to clean up and no insurance to rebuild.

    “It was a self-financing deal,” said Suhs, who purchased the building from another swim coach, Terry Martin. The aquatic center was built in 1997, and had survived previous powerful hurricanes – Ivan in 2004, and Katrina in 2005.

    “I tried to get insurance on it, but it was just cost prohibitive,” said Suhs. He said he still had one more year of payments on the facility. “I thought, ‘well, I’ll take my luck.’ My luck ran out.”

    Read Advance Local

  • In this far-fetched year some teams have had to put a pause on fans. 

    With the help of some parents, Farmington girls swimming and diving head coach Jen Marshall surprised the team at their first virtual meet.

    They put up pictures of their families and also their dogs.

    It brings a sense of normalcy for the student-athletes and it motivates them in the pool.

    See Kare 11
    https://twitter.com/AndyMacSports/status/1307132081995165698

  • Hurricane Sally didn’t just bring massive floods and downed power lines to the Gulf Coast — it also left a few natural dangers in its wake. Tina Bennett, who lives in Gulf Shores, Alabama, shared video with CBS affiliate WKRG of a giant alligator swimming through the waters surging outside her residence after Sally made landfall on Wednesday.

    “Oh my god, this is outside of our window!” Bennett can be heard saying in the video. “It is a 10 or 12-foot alligator!”  

    See CBS News

  • Ryan Lochte said his “No. 1” gold medal from his first individual Olympic title in 2008 has gone missing.

    “I don’t know where it is,” Lochte told Graham Bensinger in an interview clip published Wednesday. “I have a couple guesses.”

    Lochte believed a former agent or his mom had the medal, but said they told him they don’t have it.

    Read Yahoo! Sports

  • In this episode of The 10B410 Show Jake talks to Al Black Director of Analytics at TTS Thinktank Social about his journey as a Paralympian athlete.

  • The International Swimming Conference 2020, organized by Gustavo Borges Methodology, in Brazil, will be held from October 6 to 10, 2020.

    It will be 100% online and free!
    More than 100 speakers from almost 20 different countries!

    Trails in three languages (English, Portuguese and Spanish), from swimming for babies to high performance, from aquatic management to business operation.

    See just how the event will be and, then, register! http://conteudo.metodologiagb.com.br/…

  • By 2050, rising sea levels will flood 200 million people’s homes across the globe. For thousands across Asia, this is already a reality. In this episode, we travel to some of the worst affected places on Asia’s coastline, spending 24 hours with the families living at the whim of an unpredictable ocean. Every day, from the Bay of Bengal to Java Island, families are facing flooding, storms, dwindling fish stocks and waterborne diseases. From dawn to dusk, we witness the resilience of those fighting on the frontlines. Villagers build their houses on stilts, intrepid doctors travel on boat clinics, and families plant entire mangrove forests, growing natural sea walls on their doorsteps. For some, it is too late. We meet climate migrants working menial jobs Kolkata, forced to flee after their farm was decimated by floods. Every day, the tide rises higher, storms get stronger and oceans get warmer. Will those that live by the coasts adapt or are they facing a losing battle?

  • Brittani Bennett was a competitive swimmer and knows all about shoulder care. During this video, she will demonstrate several exercises that help with shoulder mobility — whether for recovery or for injury prevention.