Swimming

I defend my friends, especially my teammates. Even though swimming is an individual sport, it is also a team sport. Waking up at 5:00 in the morning for a two-hour morning workout isn’t something that anyone can do. Having a team there to be encouraging is what gets us through the season; so naturally we become very close. This year New Trier Girls Swimming and Diving is doing a different form of leadership. We have a leadership counsel so more people can speak for the team based on what they…

I think I would want to be either a coach or Information Technology consultant. In high school, I swim for four years along with being on a year-round team. Swimming was a big part of my life and still is. With the experience of being a high school and year-round team I feel like I could be a good coach. I would like being able to help new swimmers improve on strokes and be able to get faster. A lot of times when planning a swim meet and choosing events for the swimmers to participate in can be…

Angle the feet for the optimal way to catch water. In the following days, I noticed more people who had irregularities in their stroke technique. As the season continued, I kept my focus on helping my teammates realize the importance of details in swimming, working with individual people a couple of minutes every practice. At the end of the season, our varsity boys defeated Lynbrook High School- the long reigning league champions- at a meet. Looking at the score distribution, I couldn’t help…

age of 13, and that was my ability to swim long distance races. The first time I swam one of these, I broke a team record and I knew this was the path to go down. But through the talent I soon came to find, nerves started to set in. The thought of swimming for fifteen minutes straight at high intensity scared me. What if I wasn’t to do well? All of that work for nothing? What are my friends or other competitors thinking of me? This started a long trend of me getting nervous before races. My…

sometimes three, hours the situation will only worsen as I repeatedly raise my arms above my head and pull back as hard as possible. Weeks of this pass by, all for the sake of being able to travel through 100 meters of water a few milliseconds faster. Swimming has been my primary sport since the age of eight. The aforementioned training regime was a necessary price to pay if I ever hoped to improve and outperform peers, and I stayed dedicated to it from the beginning. Because of this, I grew…

On July 18, 2011, I was 9 years old. That morning, at 10:00 a.m., I was at my swimming lessons at the Mora Aquatic Center. Leah and I went to our swimming lessons. After we finished at 11:15 a.m., we went to the park to eat lunch and play around until 12:30. At 12:30, I went to the pool and I went and played in the deep end (12ft 6 in) and went off the diving board and drop off slide. I also went on the other 2 water slides that they have. At around 3:40 p.m., I went on the fast green…

The Art of Swimming Lessons Trying a new activity for the first time can be challenging as well as a frightening experience. In our complex that we lived in at the time with many other families and children of the same age as me was an outdoor swimming pool, smack dab in the centre of houses. You couldn’t avoid it, its crystal waters gleaming at your through the fence that surrounded the pool. I enjoyed being in the water; that wasn’t the issue, the problem I faced was the deep, ominous depths…

I could do it. That was the only comprehensible thought my oxygen-depraved brain could create while it was screaming for air. Earlier that day, I had entered the pool room. Chlorine had filled my lungs and echoing splashes filled my ears. All the signs indicated a typical swim team practice was beginning. Five minutes later I stood at the edge of the pool, my swim cap gluing hair to scalp. The whistle blew; warm-up laps had begun. I delicately slid into the water; frigid liquid slowly…

I Believe in Competitive Swimming Swimming is my life. Joining the swim team has changed my life more than I ever thought it would. Since I joined my weeks have been filled with practice and more practice. Weekends are filled with meets and going to events. I went through a lot of years just so I could join the team. Being part of a team is amazing and full of fun. Swim has changed my life in a lot of ways. From being part of a team, to getting up early for meets. I don’t know what I would be…

Water Safety It was a hot summer day, and I was working a shift lifeguarding at a local swimming pool. I was taking my break in the staff room when I heard the alarm signal on the radios we use to communicate go off. Rushing outside immediately, I spotted my coworker Sam in the pool rescuing a small child. Fortunately, there were two guards on the pool at that time, so it was still being guarded. I went over to see if Sam needed help, and when I saw that it was handled, I took her spot on the…