Opinion

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY: Swimming – An Underrated Sport

Niagara senior Brad Ash found a way to incorporate his swimming into a class project, creating a short documentary about the sport, called Swimming: An Underrated Sport.

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The 4 Most Common Extracurricular Activities of the Competitive Swimmer

#2 Napping. Olympic Champion Nathan Adrian must know what we’re talking about. Sprinters are fast, but big, strong sprinters love to nap.

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Kade Knoch blogs from National Diversity Select Camp: Blog #2 – Day one crazy, but exciting

Blog #1 Oklahoma swimmer blogs during camp at Olympic Training Center; Day one crazy, but exciting May 7, 2:20 a.m….

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Shouts From The Stands: Why NCAA Athletes Should Be Paid

What other billion-dollar industry, besides the NCAA, has unpaid employees?

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CSCAA Convention Travel Blog Day 2

Day 2 began with me misreading my watch and getting to the convention an hour earlier than anything started. It was great to be in the right place, but as I sat alone in the lobby it took a good twenty minutes for me to realize my folly.

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Kade Knoch blogs from the National Diversity Select Camp: Blog #1 – Running Late

“Day before camp, and I’m already running late. Crazy Oklahoma weather.”

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Shouts From The Stands: A Different Perspective On The Closing Of The OCCC Aquatic Center

SwimSwam welcomes reader submissions about all topics aquatic, and if it’s well-written and well-thought, we might just post it under our “Shouts from the Stands” series.

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Shout From the Stands: A Letter to my Child’s Swim Coach

“Please strive everyday to be the coach you wish you would have had or the coach you hope for your child. No matter how long you have been coaching, no matter how much you may know, it can always help to consciously remember THIS IS SOMEONE’S CHILD.”

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Chlorinated: The world inside each swim team

I have realized that there is a world inside each team that takes over the lives of each swimmer.

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4 Reasons Why Swimming Robots Are Awesome – Watch the Swimming Robot Video

At the Tokyo Institute of Technology, researchers are working to develop and improve a machine referred to as the swimming robot.

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11 Reasons To Love Swimming Outside

Now that spring is in the air… it’s time to pull off those pool covers, find that sunblock, and polish up that old pair of mirrored Swedish goggles. Here is a list from our staff on why we love to swim outside.

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The 2012-2014 Medalists in the Men’s Freestyles if Dopers Were Removed

We’ve put together an analysis of what the sport would’ve looked like from 2012-2014 if all athletes who have had a doping ban were not in the picture.

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Why You Should Listen to your Swim Coach

Listening to your coach is something that every swimmer needs to learn to do. Athletes that have a coach that they can rely on and have confidence in will become greater swimmers in the long run.

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Shouts from the Stands: From a swim mom to a swimmer

SwimSwam welcomes reader submissions about all topics aquatic, and if it’s well-written and well-thought, we might just post it under…

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10 Open Water Swim Tips & Etiquette

As the sport of Open Water Swimming becomes more and more popular, here are some helpful safety and etiquette tips…

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