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  • In life or death situations, mere seconds mark the difference between walking away with some bruises and a bad memory, or a life ending tragically short. The decisions made in that minuscule time frame present a person’s true character by forcing them into a situation which nobody wants to be in, and some would avoid altogether.

    Medford Area Senior High School student Samantha Alexander proved to be a hero when she found herself in the dire situation of being the only person able to save a child who was drowning at Sackett Lake, quickly and critically making the decision to act in the paltry time frame.

    Alexander was there babysitting another child separate from the incident, and had also been keeping an eye on the kids playing around in the water. She noticed one child hadn’t been listening to his mother’s instructions and was floating around on a tube pretty much wherever he felt, including around a steep under water drop-off where the lake deepens significantly.

    “Suddenly, I saw the tube floating over by the reeds, so I wondered where the little boy who was using it was,” recalled Alexander. “Then I saw him: he wasn’t coming up, he was flailing his arms around, obviously drowning… he was in roughly six feet of water.”

    Alexander, who was near picnic tables and swinging chairs a bit away from the lake, screamed to warn adults who were standing by the water and closer to the child, but no one gave an indication they heard her.

    “Nobody noticed him, I don’t know how, but they didn’t,” she said. “It was pretty crazy.”

    Realizing she was the child’s only chance, Alexander ran and threw herself into the lake fully clothed, minus shoes which she kicked off to swim better, and hauled the child to safety. Others, noticing the commotion, ran over to help the child on shore.

    “I pulled him out, he coughed all the water up, he was obviously crying,” Alexander continued. “It’s just lucky I got to him in time. Two minutes is all it takes, just two minutes.”

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  • Here is another detailed video of my step-by-step guide to learn how to dive off the blocks. It can be a bit scary at first, but if you follow these instructions it will really help. You can always start off by diving off the waters edge into the deep water before progressing up onto the block.

  • Rita Shalhope started the program when she and several neighbors in the area put in swimming pools.

    “So I just went around to all the parents and said I’m afraid one of these kids is going to climb a fence and fall in, and I’m just going to teach all the kids to swim, which I did,” Rita told FOX 17 Thursday.

    She would later adopt her more aggressive style of teaching after experiencing a personal tragedy.

    “My son, I found him drowning in our pool at 3. He got through the gate, unlatched it. I was in the house and he fell in. By the grace of God I found him,” Rita said.

    After that she realized the importance of teaching young children how to survive in and around water.

    “A small child has to be able to get themselves to the side, they have to know how to go underwater because when they fall in their brain shuts down and nothing works,” Rita said.

    But this week Rita received a letter from the city of Grandville asking her to stop giving lessons. They say her business, which operates as a home occupation, is in violation of city code.

    “We’ve had complaints from a number of residents in the neighborhood that because of all the traffic, they can’t get mail, they can’t get garbage picked up, can’t get deliveries,” said Grandville assistant city manager Matthew Butts.

    “So we’ve been trying to work with her for a number of years and this year it just ramped up and the neighbors have just had enough and complained to us and asked us to step in,” he said.

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  • Learning to swim while keeping up with physical distancing is a near-impossible task. As Erica Natividad reports, that has some GTA swim instructors worried about an increase in drownings this summer.

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  • 9 out of 10 elite-level swimmers battle some form of shoulder injury. Develop your own routine and get phenomenal inspiration with these movements:

    1. ½ Kneeling Overhead Pull-Rotation x10, 10
    2. Pass Throughs x5
    3. ½ Kneeling 1-Arm Trunk Rotation x10, 10
    4. Low External Rotation x10
    5. Low Separations x10
    6. 1-Arm High External Rotation x10, 10
    7. Pull-Apart x5
    8. Diagonal Pull-Apart x5, 5
    9. Bradford Press x10
    10. Chest Flyes x15
    11. 1-Arm High-Separation x5, 5
      Main Shoulder Stability – 2 rounds:
      1. 1-Arm Arnold Press x10, 10
      2. Lift & Pull x5
      3. Wall Step x5, 5

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