It has been a lousy year for Ian Thorpe, a man who has suffered depression issues for the better part of a decade and now this troubling news: From the Daily Mail: The 31-year-old gold medallist is receiving treatment for an infection after receiving surgery at a hospital near his Swiss home of Ronco sopra Ascona. Thorpe was flown to Sydney, where he is in intensive care, and his close associates...
River Place Country Club in Austin needs assistant coaches ...
The charge: "This isn't something swimmers are meant to do. We don't do hard stuff like this. We don't train like that." The defense: "If anything, it's just a way of showing discipline, and what being in athletics is all about." The verdict: Poll: Do you think bear crawls are useful or inappropriate punishment for student athletes? I think they are useful - 52% (289) I think they're inappropriate...
Iowa high school coach Dan Flannery's swim team posters are pretty danged impressive. Here's one of the Ames HS poster schedules: ...
City of Wichita Falls pool supervisor TownLake YMCA aquatics director ...
(via OnlineAthens ) It looks like Georgia head coach Jack Bauerle is going to take the fall for an athlete's academic issue. Bauerle has been suspended indefinitely while the university and the NCAA look into the matter. Read more here and here . The NCAA alleges that Bauerle made “special arrangements” on Dec. 10, 2013, with an unnamed professor to add men’s swimmer Chase Kalisz to a...
The lifeguard is perhaps the most important person on the beach or at the swimming pool. While it is everyone’s responsibility to ensure safe swimming conditions, it is the lifeguard’s job to provide assistance when needed. In order to do their job, these special individuals need lifeguard swimwear that sets them apart from the other […] ...
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. (via the guardian ) Sir Karl Raimund Popper ...
UT breaststroke recruit Austin Temple spoke with Jeff Commings : ...
Track & Field athletes inspired by the concept that both college football players and basketball players can unionize is taking the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board quite seriously. They are now talking about unionizing too after an all too powerful coach arguably gamed the rules at a track & field event. From the Wall Street Journal: "... The discord follows two disqualifications...
Meet Sophie Taylor. Find out more about British swimmer Sophie Taylor including personal bests, facts, statistics, medals and competition records...