I squinted through the sunlight and scanned the water in front of me. With my teeth clenched on my whistle‚ I paced the hot concrete. All of a sudden‚ the slide screeched as an older woman plunged into the pool. I instinctively moved towards the struggling guest with my safety tube outstretched‚ ready to execute my training. Suddenly‚ she emerged from the water and exited the pool. Whew! It was a false alarm. While heading back to my stand‚ I was interrupted by the creaking of another slide. This
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Ledecky Quotes”) Both these quotes are from Katie Ledecky. Katie Ledecky is a 2 Time Olympian‚ 5 time OLympic Gold winner and World Champion. Katie Ledecky loved swimming from an early age‚ and has had a very successful swimming career‚ because she trains in unusual ways‚ for a female swimmer. Did you know that Katie Ledecky started swimming at the age of 6? She wanted to follow in the footsteps of her brother Michael. She attended Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart. She trains with Nation’s Capital
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potential. The name of the scholarship is what really grabbed my attention‚ because I was a four year varsity swimmer for Blue Valley High School‚ and am now bound to a wheelchair. Swimming was one of the most important things to me before my accident I have a rather diverse athletic background; before I even thought of swimming to be my sport‚ I grew up as a football and baseball player. Winning tournaments‚ receiving trophies with my team mates ‚ and earning medals was part of my childhood. It wasn’t
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path to get a good spot to start jumping off the rocks and start swimming‚ but all the great spots were all full. We decided to just find a close spot and just deal with all the people in the area. Our day progressed as normally as you’d expect‚ and everyone was enjoying the water and how refreshing it was fighting off the heat of the day. Eventually everyone was starting to get bored jumping off the smaller rocks as well as just swimming around‚ so my friends decided we should start jumping off the
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During his upbringing in the Queensland city of Townsville‚ he suffered from bronchiectasis (an abnormal widening of the bronchi)‚ which had caused the surgical removal of a part of his lungs. He took on swimming in order to improve his condition. Later in his life Lawrence become a Physical Education teacher‚ in which he gained a scholarship for his education. He then became a swim coach and took over Don Talbot at the Hurstville Club‚ as his father suggested
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How to Swim Butterfly All those who know‚ even a little bit of swimming‚ have come to agree that the butterfly stroke is by far the most difficult stroke in swimming. It may not necessarily be the most difficult stroke to master technique-wise (that title is held by breast stroke‚ as far as I know)‚ but it is definitely the most taxing stroke to swim. Of course‚ one can always argue that any stroke is taxing to swim when you’re swimming with 100 percent effort‚ and that is true‚ but even in that butterfly
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meets the native boys‚ who show him the tunnel. The native boys see one of the older boys swim deep under the water and come up on the other side of a big rock. That started a whole rally and soon all the native boys were diving under the water and swimming through the tunnel. Jerry tries to dive down with the boys but he simply cannot hold his breath that long. “And now‚ in a panic of failure‚ he yelled up‚ in English‚ ‘Look at me! Look!’ and he began splashing and kicking in the water like a foolish
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These suggest the hand of fate during not only Lucy’s life‚ but that of her parents and Ralph as well. The tragic consequences of Lucy’s mother and father finding her clothes along the shore prove to them that she had drowned‚ lost at sea while swimming alone. Convinced of this‚ they stop looking for Lucy and decide to continue with their plans to leave Ireland without her. They never look back. They move to England‚ and then continue to move from place to place‚ never contacting anyone at Lahardane
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dangers of not being able to swim. It is forecasted that the ideas and recommendation will become more prevalent and they will be able to incorporate these ideas across all communities and decrease the amount of drowning cases which occur annually. Swimming is an iconic Australian sport that has dated back to the 1900’s when the introduction to the world of the “Australian crawl” was born. Our iconic beaches that bring tourists to this country‚ to our lakes and dams that give us our leisure to enjoy
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phenomenon is an example of the idea of “lifeboat” ethics. Garrett Hardin‚ the writer of Lifeboat Ethics‚ said in his writings “So we sit here‚ say fifty people in our life boat... let us assume that it has room for ten more… [we] see one hundred others swimming in the water outside‚ begging for admission in to our boat...” (Hardin 415). Hardin’s Lifeboat Ethics is about the concept that we’re on a boat and we’re trying to decide who will get on the lifeboat and survive. Though we are not in the open sea
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