Human swimming

My heart was racing while I was standing behind the one of the blocks at Lasalle. My coach said you will do fine but I wasn’t positive about it. I mean this was only my first time swimming at champs. I looked over at the other kids they looked good but I have been practicing all summer. Then, I looked around the pool and see hundreds of people there watching me. I had butterflies in stomach when I stepped up on the block but I was feeling confident. I can smell the yucky chlorine from the cold…

Attention Getter: “I have a gut feeling you want to swim in college”, my coach says to me as he pulls me out of practice to yell at me...again. As he is waiting for my response, I start wondering: Do I actually want to swim in college? Will things be different while being a NCAA athlete? Are there any extra opportunities or money besides scholarships for student athletes? As I turned and looked at him, my reply came out of my mouth before I even knew what it was. “Yes, I think so.” As soon as I…

felt as if were in slow-motion. Everything had gone fine until my body hit the water and my goggles rolled off my face and onto my forehead. I remembered what the coach told me two nights before, If your goggles ever fall off in a race, don’t stop swimming,That’ll end the momentum of your dive. The familiar salty flavor and rush of cold water arose as I kicked with all my might. Never had I raced…

will be the consumption of ice cream. The amount of time spent after consuming X amount of ice cream can also be a determining factor. Any third variables can be also be age, experience in swimming, the activities while in the pool, for example if you are just relaxing, diving, exercising, and underwater swimming. The dependent variable will be the rate of drowning deaths of children between the age of 13-19. Everyone will be given two scoops of ice cream and they will go…

mainly the one I work at, is a place that I found myself gravitating towards as the pressure of senior year at school and fall basketball grew. Suspending underwater, everything seemed crystal clear—no sounds, no worries, and no responsibilities. Swimming creates a feeling unlike anything else, even if it is only for seconds at a time. When cleaning the pool, I hold in as much air as possible with each dive to make the calming feeling last as long as…

lifeguards where they can eat, take their breaks, and also they have their first aid kits available and other medical supplies in case of emergencies. Social issues in the lives of the population: There are too many people that come in to this swimming park that we do not know how healthy and sanitize they are, but there is a wide spread of people from ages to as young as a 1 year old to 85 years of age that can and possibly get sick. Even if the water is filtered, there is still a mass of…

decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn. They also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I did not realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person. This later would be a great benefit to me in anything new I would try to do and make new experience less stressful and scary. One day, when I was five years old, I asked my Dad to go to the swimming pool. “Dad! Dad! Let's go to the swimming pool…

The Big Boom “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous L. Huxley, an English writer, novelist, and philosopher wrote this quote. After this day, I learned to never take anything or anyone for granted again. Two summers ago, I was training for the Junior Olympics in sailing. The teams coaches, Alex and Anika towed us out to the ocean to sail downwind. It was a perfect day at Del Rey Yacht Club with no clouds in the sky. You could even see all…

record is intact. When people think of swimming, they most likely think of Michael Phelps. He has won 28 olympic medals, 23 of them being gold. He also won 8 gold medals in one Olympics, the most ever won in a single Olympics. Most people consider him the best swimmer and olympian of all time and some even consider him the best athlete of all time. However, while Michael Phelps was a hard worker, his early start as a swimmer, good coach, and perfect…

In 2012 there were four deaths in relation to water polo, hundreds of reported serious injuries and even more minor injuries. With a death rate of 1.06, beaten only by men's softball; a sport to be wary of is water polo because of the constant threat of injuries. Water polo is a game played by swimmers in a pool with seven players on each side. The ball used is like a volleyball thrown into the opponent's net. Sounds simple now but it is not,the game is so much more then that. Three types of…