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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kirsten Read, with one really cool logo designed by Mitch Lopata of Skokie, Illinois, is the founder and head of KGR Coaching in Kennebunk, Maine. At the age 40, Brown University alumna began open water swimming and set off on a career of open water swimming while she still […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tampa Bay Marathon Swim founder and race director Ron Collins is ready for the 2015 edition this Saturday “12 solo swimmers and three relay teams have entered the 18th Annual 24 Mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim. Swimmers and their fans will be able to follow all of the action
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Hooper received a big boost when Arena announced its support of Swim the Big Blue, his pan-Atlantic swimming expedition in an attempt to become the first person to swim across every mile of the Atlantic Ocean. Arena decided to become the official technical sponsor of Swim the Big
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Various kinds of limitations have been placed on women throughout Olympic athletic history. For example, up until the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, women only swam the 100m butterfly and 100m backstroke while men were allowed to do the 200m butterfly and 200m backstroke. Only starting at the 1968 Mexico City
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 2012 Olympians Andrew Gemmell and Alex Meyer have long dominated the American open water swimming scene with some impressive wins over the last several years. The Big Two face off with each other and 32 other men at this week’s USA Swimming Open Water National Championships in Miromar Lakes,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Who is going to represent the United States at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia with the subsequent opportunity to become one of the 25 finalists in the 2016 Rio Olympics? Of the 32 women entered in this week’s USA Swimming Open Water National Championships in Miromar
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today is the start of Environmental Physiology. Your Body In The World, a free online course offered by Professor Anne Friedlander of Stanford University. Professor Friedlander explains, “Want to climb mountains and fly fighter planes? Want to skydive? Want to travel around the country to meet science experts that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Merle Liivand has been a competitive pool swimmer, training in pools all her life. The personable CEO of SWIMERA is a elite breaststroker focused on breakouts, technique, pool drills, and pacing as a specialist in 100-200 meter races at the World Youth Championships, the European Olympic Festival and the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Around the world, the podium places at major open water swimming competitions are usually dominated by 20-somethings, 30-somethings and sometimes even 40-somethings. The combination of strength and savvy, speed and stamina in young mature adults are simply too much for teenagers to overcome. But not at this year’s Swim
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Courtesy of Robert Strauss at Swim Miami, Florida. 31-year-old Andres H. Miyares first discovered swimming at the young age of 9 months at Strauss’ Swim Gym in Miami. “I had him under my tutelage until he was 10 years old,” explains Strauss about the Special Olympics athlete with Down Syndrome. “Since then, he has spent
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