Swimmer's Daily

  • The new Kern High School District Aquatic Complex in Southwest Bakersfield was preparing to be packed for the summer as it brought in many competitors, coaches and fans but most importantly it was set to introduce KHSD’s newest sport.

    “There’s still a lot of people in Kern County that don’t even know what it is or that it exists even at a couple of the high schools,” Jason Gall said.

    Gall is talking about water polo. A sport still trying to make a permanent splash in the county. With the opening of the estimated 14-millions dollar Kern Aquatics Complex at the beginning of 2020, KHSD prepared to add the sport to at least 6-8 of its schools this upcoming school year starting with preparation in the summer.

    “Basically three pools of water polo going all summer for summer league and just a lot of excitement and anticipation and adding it. And then the pandemic hit,” KHSD Director of School Support Services Stan Greene said.

    See 23ABC News

  • Swimmers were ordered out of the water at several Cape Cod beaches on Thursday morning due to shark sightings.

    According to the Sharktivity app, Nauset Public Beach in Orleans, Lecount Hollow Beach and Maguire Landing Beach in Wellfleet, Coast Guard Beach in Truro and Eastham and Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro were closed to swimming for an hour after a research boat spotted sharks swimming nearby.

    The Nauset Beach alert was issued shortly after 10 a.m., and the others shortly after 11 a.m.

    The beaches were expected to remain closed to swimming for one hour assuming no additional sightings.

    See NBC Boston

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    Photo by Elias Levy

  • College and high school swimmers utilize Saginaw Bay to continue practicing during the pandemic due to the indoor pools remaining closed.

  • Ex-Worcester Warrior’s star Alex Grove has embarked on an epic 16-hour swim across the English Channel for Acorns.

  • According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, detectives found a 16-year-old they had been searching for since July 22 hiding in the bedroom of her former swim coach’s San Bernardino home.

    John Casillas, 31, was taken into custody at a local country club where he taught swim lessons and was arrested on suspicion of concealment of a child from a parent. His bail was set at $50,000.

    See CBS

  • One year ago, Hungary’s Kristof Milak put on a show at the 2019 edition of the FINA World Championships in Gwangju, claiming his first World Title with an incredible new World Record in the 200m Butterfly Final. Do you remember his time?

  • Unsure about the re-opening of swimming pools? Tony Lifeguard has the solution.

  • The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center is joining with Swim Across America this year to raise funds for cancer research.

  • A Florida deputy’s bodycam recorded his wild pursuit of a wanted fugitive last week that began on foot and ended after a short rundown on a Jet Ski.

    Walton County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Miramar Beach on Friday following a tip that Clyde Merrill Hunter was staying at a residence there, the sheriff’s office said in a news release Monday.

    Hunter had an active felony warrant from Walton County for grand theft auto. He had just been released from custody on July 23 after recently being charged with several armed and unarmed vehicle burglaries, theft of a firearm, and theft of several motor vehicles.

    At the residence, deputies said they found numerous stolen tools and vessel registrations to two stolen wave runners out of Okaloosa County in a bag under Hunter’s clothes. Hunter was then spotted fleeing on foot.

    Deputies tracked him down to Cessna Park, where he was riding one of the stolen wave runners. After Hunter got off the wave runner and onto the boat ramp, deputies approached him and commanded him to stop.

    Hunter bolted and deputies followed on foot until the suspect tried to evade capture by jumping in the water and swimming away.

    Bodycam video shows the short foot pursuit before a deputy commandeered a nearby Jet Ski and caught up to Hunter, whom he guided back to land for his arrest.

    See FOX10