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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. World champion Holly Lawrence discusses how she transformed herself in the open water through the 3Fs: move from fear to familiarity through frequency with Coach Gerry Rodrigues and host Jim Lubinski at Tower 26‘s Be Race Ready podcast episode #17. Lawrence talks about thorough preparation for a […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Clark Campbell of the University of Kansas and President-Elect of the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA), talks about the inaugural National Collegiate Open Water Swimming Championships on Lone Star Lake and the second annual competition scheduled for September 15th 2017. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Shelley Taylor-Smith interviews Libby Walker and Haley Bishop of the University of Kansas who tied for first with Jenny Nusbaum finishing in a close third on the Lone Star Lake in the inaugural 5 km College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association National Collegiate Open Water Swimming Championships. Copyright ©
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Shelley Taylor-Smith discusses various perspectives about officiating in the sport of competitive open water swimming from the FINA World Championships to the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Shelley Taylor-Smith, College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association National Collegiate Open Water Swimming Championships, Kansas. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photo courtesy of the Boston Globe. Individuals inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame are not always swimmers, coaches or pilots. Honorees like Jerry Nason have contributed mightily to the sport via their profound understanding of endurance sports and their writing talents. Nason was an American marathon runner and sports writer from Winchester,
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Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya, Ocean Navi, Japan. In his younger days, Toshio Tominaga (富永俊夫 in Japanese) played water polo and swam in school. He was competitive, but then he began his professional career at a Japanese electronics corporation. As the intervening decades passed, Tominaga stayed in good shape, but he had to dramatically reduce the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sarah Thomas has been swimming in Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border for 45 hours 34 minutes (as of this posting), traversing 108.5 km (67.4 miles) through one of the most colorful and scenic lakes in the American West. She is closing in on swimming non-stop into her third
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ion Lazarenco Tiron is a global aquatic adventurer. The native Moldavian living in Ireland has not only completed an 8-day 235 km Swimming Marathon Nistru stage swim, but he has also completed an Ice Mile swim in 3.3ºC (37.9ºF) water, an English Channel crossing in 13 hours 34 minutes,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 56-year-old Stephen Junk is now in rarified air in the channel swimming world. Junk crossed off his sixth Oceans Seven channel today with a tough crossing of the Molokai Channel. He completed the Molokai Channel swim today in 13 hour 50 minutes on the same day that Ion Lazarenco
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