Swimming

my decision, I also thought it would be a great way to meet new friends, get in shape and have fun. At the time, this was the extent of what I believed swim would do for me, but as I finished, my fourth year on this team, it was very evident that swimming had done significantly more. Being in sports has resulted in designating my education as a top priority. My coach always says, “You are a student first and an athlete second.” Embodying this expectation has become…

The bus pulled up to the curb, and the kids started filing off the bus like ants coming out of an ant hole. They walked in and placed their bags and coats on the hooks. A girl turned and gave me a quizzical look. She had freckles sprinkled across her pale face. She had strawberry blonde hair. “Who are you?” she asked. “I’m Allie, I am going to be working here.” She seemed satisfied with my response and went to go sit down. It was my first day at the Boys and Girls Club. I was exceptionally…

My freshman year, the Mount Si High School Swim Team had its first official season. I was one of 15 girls on the team. Hardly anyone knew we existed in the community and at the high school. The fall of my junior and senior year, managing the swim team became my project. I was promoted to team captain. I helped grow the team from that original 15 to over 40 girls by going to the middle schools for recruiting trips and spreading the word about swim team throughout the high school. Just like every…

People with Eating Disorders Amanda Beard Amanda Beard is an olympian athlete who at the age of 26 had 7 olympic medals in swimming. She suffered from an eating disorder called bulimia. When she was doing photo shoots she was always in a swimsuit and when they edited the photos they would take off inches of her skin to make her look perfect so that's what she thought she had to look like. She wanted to be a great swimmer but she wanted to look pretty, skinny, and perfect. She had dealt with the…

talented swimmers and I need to have my best swim to be able to compete against them. After a little over an hour, my team and I arrived at our destination. I saw many familiar faces from other teams since we have been friends for many years from swimming club. We conversed and soon came warm-ups. We all did our thing and shortly after warm-ups, the meet began to commence. I was a part of the first relay, which is the 200 medley and we achieved our best time and ended up making…

with my opponent, the only thing in my way from wining the water. Then the final whistle noise, hit my ear and boom I jump with all my might and I hit the water the ice cold water hard. While I jumped I said to myself “it’s ShowTime”. Then I started swimming I could feel my hand and legs moving across the water violently. The only thing I could hear was the loud and deadly sound of my kicking. Then come the flip best place to screw up if you don’t hit it correctly. When I hit the wall I could…

can feel the pressure from Ted and my team I am focused. Ted is my every hero because he keeps me motivated everyday to keep doing what I love even through the crummy times. To me and everyday hero is someone who repeatedly does exceptional work. Swimming is an extremely physically demanding sport and only some people are able to do it. When going to practice everyday it can seem very repetitive and sometimes boring. My swim coach Ted does an amazing job of keeping me busy and interested in…

Tanvi The hot Hawaiian sun beat down on me as I boarded the boat with my sister. Last night, Christina, my sister, who is in college, came home for a day, and today we are going to go on our annual snorkeling trip. When I get to college, I want to make the college swim team, just like Christina. I was ecstatic because I was barely able to convince Christina to come with me. She had a very important test to study for. So, we compromised and she took her study material along with her. When we got…

Chelsea Hansen In John Cheever’s short story, “The Swimmer,” Neddy Merrill swims across the county in a string of pools. As Neddy runs from pool to pool, he is greeted with kindness and care. Then, a storm hits, along with some ridicule from the town. After the storm, Neddy grows weak and unhappy with his decision to swim across the county. The string of pools represents the events of an affair; his wife finding out about the affair is represented by the storm. “The Swimmer” is a short story…

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…