Synchronized swimming

Compassion, leadership, grit. But for the first few years, I was mostly in it for the rewards. I loved going to meets and winning ribbons; practice not so much. However, something changed, I eventually learned to appreciate the daily struggle of swimming and began to focus on the lessons beyond the returns. There’s one particularly brutal swim practice that I attribute my change in mindset to. I think I was about 9 or 10, and the practice started out fairly standard. A 600 warm-up, followed by…

3 Bass Rigs You Really Ought to Learn! Many of today’s anglers all to often seem to have the enthusiasm to get themselves all sike’d up for that big day of fishing the following day only to find themselves coming in at the end of the day with only one or two bass caught. They will spend the day, usually casting, re-rigging, running, loosing lures, etc., but most of all getting frustrated because the fish aren’t cooperating. "Sound Familiar?" I, surly know this feeling and I’m sure that any…

Part of being prepared is being experienced in all kinds of different situations because the circumstances Mavericks can be unpredictable. Without knowing how to surf in just normal conditions, one will go nowhere but down with the tons of water if they attempt to surf Mavericks. Most of the big-wave surfers have been surfing since their teens or even before. Jay Moriarity trained for 4 years before he first took on Mavericks at the age of 16 (Cagnoni). He is undoubtedly one of the youngest…

Away for the summer, and swimming everyday. During the summer of my sophomore year I went to the warm and humid Baltimore city. During this summer I spent a great deal learning of myself and the world around me. For beginners I spent it with my aunt and uncle, and spent no time with my own inclosed family (excluding my sister). I spent it without the support of my close and dear family. Throughout the experience I was given choices to make, and these little or big choices I had to make on…

The South Dakota women captured two individual event victories. Sabrina Sabadeanu won the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2 minutes, 04.89 seconds. On the diving board, Sarah Schank’s score of 275.45 on the three-meter dive earned her first place. One the one-meter dive, Schank finished third (231.10) with Haley Pederson right on Schank’s tale to take fourth (231.05). Alongside Sabadeanu’s first place finish, she also earned third place in the 100-yard backstroke (57.80), fourth place in…

It was the summer I decided to be better. I had done gymnastics for years, but this year I wanted to be a level six. At the time, I was a level four and to skip levels was not only difficult, but rare. “I can if I work hard enough,” I told myself, and I did. My first level six meet was here, and I had lots of people thinking it was going to be awful, that I was not ready and that I was not good enough. Floor was my last, and best event so I decided I would end with a bang. My teammates were…

Normally all is normal in normal Illinois. But something about the third weekend of May 2017 that was all but normal, especially to Jim Joe Jerry a police officer. Temperatures dropped, crime rates raised, and to Jim Joe Jerry disaster was closer than ever before. But the worst was yet to come. “Shwish.” The breeze went. Everything went cold as Jim Joe Jerry twitched to his awakening. Jim felt uneasy already knew today was going to terrible, but why? The last time Jim had a half bad day…

On November 15th, 2015 I had to lead a 4-person row boat in a 4000 meter race in Mission Bay, San Diego. It was my first year with my high school’s rowing team and rowing in general, and I loved it. It was 6 in the morning when my coach told my group words I would never forget, “You guys are my top boat. If anyone’s winning, it’s you guys.” I was the stroke of my boat, meaning I set the pace everyone follows. I felt anxious; when you boil it down, the rate of our success depended on me. When we…

I looked out into the clear blue water as my toes curled over the edge of the pool’s wall “Just pretend it’s a giant bowl of Mac and Cheese!” my instructor yelled. Any child would be delighted to jump into a large bowl of their favorite food; however, any sensible person could tell that the 6-foot diving well was anything but Mac and Cheese. Most children my age were just as scared I was, but as the years passed, it became apparent that fear was a challenge I could not overcome without hesitancy…

In the story, Ned works so hard, he swims across the county. Ted is really a sympathetic man, he is bankrupt, and his memory loses this part. He thinks that Lucinda and his daughter are waiting him at home. When he begins swimming in Westerhazys' pool, and the Grahams' swimming pool, they treated him hospitably. When it storms, he stays in the Levys' gazebo. When he gets to the Welchers' , he finds that their house is for sale now, Ned can't even remember when he last heard about the Welchers.…