1960 Summer Olympics

Kerri Walsh-Jennings is well-known for having won three gold medals in the Olympic games in a row. She was born on August 15, 1978 in Santa Clara, California. She has a brother named Marte Walsh in her family and grew up with athletic parents Timothy Joseph Walsh and Margery Lee. As a child she was very shy, yet she joined in many sports like volleyball and baseball. Sports are in her blood because both of her parents have either played volleyball or baseball. Schools that she attended were…

“A minute of pain is worth a lifetime of glory,” - Louis Zamperini. Wise words to live by for a man. Louis was a United States Olympic distance runner and a United States prisoner of war survivor of World War II. Louis was born on January 26,1917 in Olean, New York. Louis had trouble with the law before his big track career. Once Louis cleaned up his act, he ran track for Torrance High School in California. In 1934, Zamperini set the national high school mile record with a time of 4:21.2, his…

The amount of control we have in what happens in our lives is often heavily debated. Do we have full power over what happens, or are there some things that just have to occur? This question can be answered using the nonfiction books The Sports Gene by David Epstein, and Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Both stories revolve around expertise in a certain hobby, and whether or not our choices determine our expertise in that hobby. In Outliers, Gladwell supports that we do have…

anytime soon, either. Outside of the major sports, though – it would appear track and field is beginning to take off cinematically. We’ve received a dramatized glimpse of it recently in Unbroken, which depicted Louis Zamperini’s trip to the 1936 Summer Olympics (popular sporting event, apparently), and also in McFarland, USA, which tells the story of Latino high school cross country team’s rise to statewide prominence. Who would have thought watching people run would be so…

The next match for Kamikaze Pro – Run This Town on August 27th will be a 1st time ever match in the Fighting Females Division. ‘Portugal’s Perfect Athlete’ Shanna Since her Kamikaze Pro debut at our 2nd Anniversary Show, Shanna has solidified herself as the number 1 Fighting Female in Kamikaze Pro. With big victories over Nixon Newell, Blue Pants & Toni Storm and having the best Fighting Female match of last year against Mickie James. Portugal’s Perfect Athlete has pretty much been ‘perfect’ in…

When I was appointed as a Varsity Co-Captain for the high school swim team in my freshman year, I was still new to the high school scoring system, which differed from the club meets that I grew up participating in. I devoted my time as a captain leading activities I was accustomed to- running warm-ups at meets, facilitating practice dives, and assisting in equipment setup. During this period, I couldn’t help but notice that some swimmers, especially new members, were not getting as much…

Sharks swim faster because of their special skin. Through the learning of this, we created artificial human “shark skin” swimsuits to enhance our performance at water sports such as swimming. This innovation has not worked very effectively. According to the article, Shark Skin Boosts Swim Speed and Cuts Drag by Adrian Bishop it states, “Shark skin is coated in sharp scales, similar to teeth, called dermal denticles (or (placoid scales) that affect the flow of water to reduce drag and increase…

the and since became mandatory. He also holds the world record as a part of the . He is the reigning world and Olympic champion in these three events. Due to his unprecedented dominance and achievements in sprint competition, he is widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time.An eight-time , Bolt won the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay at three consecutive Olympic Games, although he subsequently lost one of the gold medals (as well as the world record set therein) nine years…

Michael Phelps, an American former competitive swimmer, has won a total of twenty-eight metals, twenty-three of them golds. Provided that, what gives Phelps the ability to be such a fast swimmer and why can’t we be like him as well? The answer is our DNA and protein within our bodies, which makes everyone different and individually built, causing Phelps to have long arms and a strong torso. The structure of DNA and forming proteins are two extremely complex aspects. Though, throughout the unit…

about may come as a surprise to many because they do not associate him with mental illness. It is Michael Phelps, competitive swimmer and most highly decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals (23 of them gold). Phelps was only 15 when he made his Olympic debut in Sydney in 2000. Although he didn't medal the first time around, the teenager put the world on notice when he finished fifth in the 200-meter butterfly final. He would go on to win eight medals in Athens, eight in Beijing, six in…