Swimming

Through the many years of my swimming career, the sport has transformed me into the adult I am today. For the past twelve years, I have called the Woonsocket YMCA pool my home. I learned how to swim there at five years old, joined the swim team at seven, and finished off my high school swimming career at the age of seventeen. Over the years, I have made lifelong friendships, unforgettable memories, and achieved goals set for myself and the team. My swimming career has been primarily known for…

that I half dread, half look forward to all day long. The point where I take a leap and let the stress of the school day fall behind me. The dread comes from knowing how hard my next two hours are going to be and calculating how many miles I’ll be swimming today. But there’s nothing in my life comparable to the joy I get when I slip into the chlorinated water of San Jose Pool every day. Six lanes, plus a diving well, hold all of my secrets, hopes, worries, and goals. Every afternoon I enter and…

Five Reasons Why Swimming Lessons are a Must for Kids Are you planning a beach holiday with your family in the coming summers? Do you have kids who are already too excited about the sand, surf, and the sea? If yes, then it’s vital for you to make your little ones learn swimming. This is probably the most important life skill which will stay with them forever. According to some reports by the Centers for Disease Control, almost ten people die from unintentional drowning every day and 20% of them…

Swimming has become an extremely popular and well-enjoyed sport or activity. But what most people do not know is the origin of this unique sport. Swimming can be dated all the way back to ancient times as prehistoric men had to swim in order to cross large bodies of water, but there were also many written works related swimming in the Early Modern Era and moreover, swimming eventually became a competitive sport during the 19th century. The competitiveness of swimming has translated into…

the pool. “That’s not exercise!” You say? It is a lot more exercise than sitting on your sofa watching TV! First of all, swimming is fun! You get to hold your breath underwater, jump off the diving board, and do cannonballs into 3’ foot water! You can cool off from the hot summer sun, and meet new friends. Next, when you’re at the swimming pool, it is easy to learn new things, like to doggy-paddle, to tread water, or to backstroke, which might save your life one day.…

of my swimming career, I did not attend practice very often. I would take weeks off and the only reason I gave for missing was simply "I did not want to go." My parents never wanted to push the issue because they felt as if it would make me hate the sport and they wanted me to like swimming for me. The thing about swimming is practice does not only make a swimmer faster but it also makes them swim legally. There are a lot of technicalities in the sport of swimming. For example, when swimming…

They say swimming is 10% physical and 90% mental; that is true beyond belief. I started competitive swimming when I was seven years old. I loved it. I was never the best swimmer, but I usually did well in my races. As I got older, the swims become longer, the practices became harder, and the mental strains became greater. The challenges never bothered me too much. Then I reached high school . My freshman year, I was lucky enough to earn my spot on the varsity swim team. My main goal that…

The sport of swimming has taught me that I am not going to be able to win every competition and make a personal record every time I compete. From coming to the harsh reality and realization that most of the time I will not reach my audacious goals, I learned to focus on working hard and making small personal victories on a daily basis. In swimming the season consists of about a dozen small competitions that eventually lead up to the championship meet. The championship meet is when fastest…

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…

My sophomore swimming season marked my transition to adulthood. My journey to sectionals taught me to reach higher and push myself to attain goals that at first seem unrealistic. Ever since I began swimming at a young age, breaststroke has come easily to me. I would place in the top twelve at swim meets, but there was still room for improvement. During my sophomore year, my head coach, Kyle, saw potential in me, took me aside at practice, and told me that he believed I had the ability to…