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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the age of 15, swimming teenagers are participating in races…not organizing them or directing non-profit groups. But not Olivia Taylor. The precocious South African established Four Elements Conservation NPC in a strategic attempt to do her best in helping preserve and improve the environment. Miss Taylor and the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Betina Martins Lorscheitter, a professional marathon swimmer from Brazil, shows excellent running form after swimming 4 km at the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) and then standing up and sprinting across Copacabana Beach to the finish in Rio de Janeiro, ahead of world
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Charlotte Webby is on her way to Russia to compete at the FINA World Championships this summer and got a bit of what she will face in Kazan. New Zealand’s Abby faced leading Australian Samantha Watts to produce the closest finish in State Ocean Swim Series history with Webby
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We go through sunscreen like we go through goggles, especially since our offices are located in Huntington Beach in Southern California and we nearly always train in outdoor pools when we are not swimming or surfing in the oceans or running or paddling along the shorelines of the world.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matthew Moseley reported that the world premiere of the documentary Dancing In The Water, a film by Wayne Ewing about swimming across Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, will be shown at the historic Prytania Theater on April 29th in New Orleans. “This is the night before the start of the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bill Smith [shown on left] was one of Hawaii’s greatest pool and open water swimmers. One of the inaugural inductees in the Hawaii Swimming Hall of Fame in 2002, his career began when he placed second in a 1-mile swim at the American national championships in California at the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kara Raney of USA Swimming is organizing the second annual #CoachesAre month. “This digital campaign is aimed at showing the positive impact our 18,000+ coaches are making across the country. However, in order to capture the great work you are doing, we need to hear from [these coaches].” It
Ocean City Swim Club Unified Team from Bruckner Chase on Vimeo.Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruckner Chase‘s Ocean City Swim Club has a specific and general mission: To create opportunities for others to connect to the water and to positively impact how we all feel, think and act towards our oceans. He fulfills his
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A psych sheet is a published list of the athletes scheduled, entered or qualified to participate in a swimming event. In the open water swimming world, the psych sheet generally lists the athletes’ names, ages, team, hometown and/or country by event (e.g., 5 km, 10 km, 25 km, 5
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2015 Crippen Cup 10k Marathon Invitational on March 28th in Fort Myers on the west coast of Florida will feature a number of 2012 Olympians including Haley Anderson (U.S.A.), Zsofia Balazs (Canada), Yumi Kida (Japan), Alex Meyer (U.S.A.), Ivan Ochoa (Ecuador) Brian Ryckeman (Belgium), and Richard Weinberger (Canada).
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