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Kade Knoch blogs from the National Diversity Select Camp: Blog #4 – Being your own hero

King Marlin Swim Club member Kade Knoch practices at the Olympic Training Center during USA Swimming’s 2015 National Diversity Select Camp.

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How to Balance Swimming and School

Being a swimmer, you most likely have learned how to manage your time wisely. However, that does mean that it is completely easy to balance school and swimming.

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Conquering Anxiety In Swimming

“I promise you, the fear you feel won’t get you anywhere. I know it’s real. I know it’s eating you up inside and dominating your thoughts. I know conquering it is much easier said than done…”

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CSCAA Convention Travel Blog Day 3 and 4

“After all of the previous day’s excitement I wasn’t sure the schedule could keep pace. I was incorrect.”

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Kade Knoch blogs from the National Diversity Select Camp: Blog #3 – Breaststroke, backstroke and food

King Marlin Swim Club member Kade Knoch practices at the Olympic Training Center during USA Swimming’s 2015 National Diversity Select Camp.

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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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