Northern Kentucky native Emily Brunemann hopes to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the newest Olympic sport: Open Water Swimming. While competitive open water swimming has been around since the days of Ancient Rome, when swimming races were held in the Tiber River,...
Garrett Weber-Gale has a lot on his plate these days ... and in his bowls and sauté pans. The swimmer who won Olympic gold medals and four world championships on relays with the likes of Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte has assembled a new all-star cast of teammates for a Gold Medal Dining Experience.
Ed Griffioen of the Abbotsford fire department (above) competing in a slalom race on Walmsley Lake in Albert Dyck Park in the 2009 World Police and Fire Games. The Fraser Valley Water Ski Club says similar events are threatened by a proposed cable park.
In this world, the children will immediately see the ramp, which leads them to an imaginary harbour with boats. The children can go to the Boating Pond and practise sailing toy boats. They can learn how jellyfish move through water by observing the plastic models in the bubble tank.
Just before the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team handed Occidental College its first SCIAC loss Saturday afternoon, Head Coach Alex Rodriguez gave the team his most inspirational pre-game speech yet.
At N.C . State, we aren't as familiar with water polo as we are with barbecue, football or Tobacco Road basketball. The Wolfpack club water polo team is out to show just how exciting the game is and how talented and tough the people who play it really are.
31 January 2012 - The Department of Tourism in Frankfurt, in cooperation with the Philippine Embassy in Berlin, spearheaded the country's participation in the annual Boot Düsseldorf fair, an event featuring various water sport activities.
A growing number of illegal commercial vendors at Kailua Beach Park has some proposing to do away with all of the vendors, except one.
Surrey's Steven Hutton, 17, grew up in a family where swimming was almost a way of life. In Puerto Rico, Steven helped propel Team Canada to a strong finish in 2011 U.A.N.A. Pan American Junior Water Polo Youth (17U) Championships.
Dr. Bruce McRae settled into life as a Holt County resident in the early 1940s, and it wasn’t long before he developed a life-long love of waterfowl hunting.
It may seem odd to think that winter brings the end to the middle school swimming season for area schools.
It may seem odd to think that winter brings the end to the middle school swimming season for area schools.
TOKYO, Japan. February 2. OLYMPIC swimming heroes and heroines have occasionally turned to open water swimming in their post-Olympic careers. Shane Gould , the five-time Australian Olympic medalist, runs the Devil of a Swim in Tasmania and continues to be a passionate advocate for learning how to swim, especially for those who live near the ocean or on island nations.
Not many cities can boast that they are the best in the world at a craft, trade or sport.
Defying 44 degree water, participants of the annual Polar Plunge and Strut raised money for the Kansas Special Olympics.
At least 120 water residents on Renegade Mountain are concerned about the future of their water supply and system after current operators of the water pumping facility requested the power be turned off to the facility last Friday.
The dangerous and unregulated sport of snowmobile water skipping is gaining popularity in New Brunswick and across North America.
PORT COLBORNE — It seems like smooth sailing for Port Colborne’s proposed cable wakeboarding facility. City councillors Monday night reviewed and approved terms and conditions under which the innovative water sport system will be brought to the lakeside city.[...]
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The old sports mantra, “It’s not how you start, but how you finish,” has encapsulated the Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team over the past two years.
