Swimming

But it means we should be our own person. Contrary to what most people think, Being an individual actually isn’t about being the next Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King Jr. You achieve ‘individual’ status when you start thinking for yourself and swimming against the…

things. However, there was something different about this time. I remembered what coach had said after the tryouts: If you really love swimming and you don't make the team, keep swimming and try out again next year. I don't fully know what it was about what he said, but I think it gave me the hope and strength to continue on. While it was well worth it to keep swimming after not making the team, it was very difficult mentally. I would constantly hear swimmers exclaim with excitement what…

My favorite sporting event that was meaningful to me was this year on March 3. This was the state swimming and diving tournament. This year I was supposed to swim 4 events total which is more than I had had the previous two years. It was an absolutely phenomenal experience due to a couple of factors. Firstly, I was 9 overall in the 100 yard butterfly…

I learned many valuable lessons from this book which gave me a different view on evolution and life. My first take was that species with shorter life spans evolve quicker and benefit the species as a whole. Before reading this, I believed organisms with short life spans were weak because they couldn’t live long. These organisms with short life spans were able to reproduce way quicker than most organisms. Rapidly, they can evolve which benefits the species as a whole which helps it achieve the…

some weight. I was not that great nor passionate about the sport. I wanted to be a good swimmer but I felt like none of my coaches cared at the time, so I had a hard time caring as well. Later down the road, my parents asked me if I wanted to keep swimming or not. I did not know how to answer, so I just simply told them, “I don’t know”. My parents decided that it was time to make a new start, so they called another swim team called “Coastal Aquatics Swim Team” and signed me up. I then left my…

The beeping is pounding in my ears. My breathing slows so I can get my heart beat down. I almost leap up to the blocks when they call my heat up. I take my mark and hear the loud beep. Then everything went quiet. Swimming is something that I've always loved to do. The anxiety of waiting, the hard work waiting to be shown off, and the goal of dropping time is something I think about before every race and meet. After your race you're either full of joy or full of disappointment. I will…

latch my cap on my bun and pull it over my head. The next step is my goggles, I place them on my eyes and let the tint change my surroundings. I jump into the cool, but some how thick water of the YWCA’s pool. I focus on my goal for the hour of swimming that now I am facing, 190 laps or just under 3 miles. The hour starts off strong as I remember to hold my breath and kick, but as time moves along I start to slow and my mind starts to wonder. I have to remind myself why I have chosen to get up…

understand the difference between drowning in freshwater versus drowning in salt water it is important to understand how red blood cells react with both hypertonic and hypotonic solution concerning the cell transport process, osmosis. When people go swimming, they will sometimes question the likelihood of surviving if they drowned in either freshwater or saltwater. To understand how the body reacts to both saltwater and freshwater, it is important to…

When I was younger I had a goal to get a scholar athelete award. The reason I got the award is because I set two goals, get a state championship cut, and also mantain straight A’s for a single nine-weeks. Goals are an important part of a well round life. My athletic goal is to swim Division 1. I have swam sice I was eight, and naturally if I’ve made it this far I want to be at the top of a new level. I believe I have set myself in good position to swim in college. My father swam division 1 and…

Edna’s awakening had many manners of the sea: unpredictable, sweeping, free of responsibility. “She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility." Swimming is about staying afloat and not getting in over one’s head, something Edna ultimately fails in. In both Chapter VI and Chapter XXIX, this same quote is repeated about the sea: “The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering,…