Synchronized swimming

Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox is a fascinating and inspiring story. It contains writing that will make you feel the emotions that the author experiences in the moments she describes. The detailed imagery used makes it as if you are the one being exposed to her challenges. Lynne takes you through the pain and dedication needed to achieve big goals. She’s blunt and tells that it wasn’t easy. The book provides the message that in order to achieve big things, it takes an unimaginable amount…

for me to try again. I lept off my chair and landed in the pool, about as gracefully as Bambi on ice, but honestly I was surprised I managed even that. Hitting the water was like a kick start that sent me into fast forward. All of a sudden I was swimming faster than I thought possible. I scooped up the girl and pulled her safely back to where a swarm of lifeguards and concerned patrons met me. My boss was the first to ask me what happened and I tried to act as calm and collected as possible. The…

At first, I disliked swimming since all we did was laps and laps of front crawl or back crawl; the first two swimming techniques I have learned. Later on, I learned many other ways of swimming and also learned CPR and first aid. This was when I really started to became interested. In my learning of first aid and CPR, we had scenarios and learned emergency rescues. At times, I found myself acting as a victim or a rescuer. In all of these moments, I found a passion for swimming and lifesaving. For…

throughout high school has been swimming. Before high school I never played any sports I was more of a video game kid. Going into high school I knew I wanted to join a sport to make friends because I had moved that summer to a new town that had better schools and more opportunities for me. I started high school knowing no one so I joined swimming to try and make friends. Little did I know that swimming would turn into much more than a recreational activity. Swimming soon turned into my…

problem because I’m just hanging around not doing anything really ”. So after a while it started to get cold. Just about all my my friends had gotten out of the water and now was just hanging out around the pool and my brother and nephew were still swimming around playing with the other kids. About thirty minutes had passed with us just goofing around having a good time. Some people decided that they were going to go to a party three blocks up from the pool. Me not wanting to be left out I told…

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” This quote, by Benjamin Franklin, is very relatable to me. Every time I face a challenge, whether it ends as success or failure, it provides me with a lesson learned. One challenge I can recall where at first I failed but ended up succeeding was when I was in the process of becoming a re-certified lifeguard. I became a certified lifeguard in 2014 at the age of fifteen and loved working as one. During June of 2015, my…

first and last swim practice. After serious consideration, I realized I had made a commitment to the team and to myself when I joined and I am not a quitter. So days turned into weeks which turned into months and I was still on the team. Slowly swimming grew on me. The team gave me a sense of accomplishment, a second family, and a sport that I would carry with me for the rest of my life. Without my exposure to the Wahoos, I would not have joined the high school swim team. So although it seems…

It was a cold, spring morning as my alarm began blasting in my ears. But today I didn't care. I was excited to get up at 5:30 a.m. For my brother-in-law and I where going fising at the local pay pond and best of all the pay pond was having a fishing tournament. One-hundred dollars for the biggest fish caught. I gathered all my supplies and we where on our way. The ride was a quite thirty minute route. We arrived around 6:30 a.m. It was a little crowded to my surprise but after unloading our gear…

SCUBA diving was the first activity that I chased as a personal passion. It was the first time I made a decision to excel in this field. I was only 12 years old when I went diving for the first time and the only reason I probably did it because my brother couldn't stop bragging that he had done it and I had not. Although everything changed after that first dive, after that first dive I came back up to surface and all I kept thinking about doing is going back down. I wanted to see more of this…

152441T MS1502 HEADLINE: HOW TO MEET JACKIE CHAN STANDFIRST: FAHIM FADZIL SHARES WITH US HIS EXPERIENCE IN TEP THAT ALLOWED HIM TO DO MORE THAN HE EVER IMAGINED It was twelve in the afternoon when Jackie Chan, a renowned Hong Kong action-movie star, arrived at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore to educate the students about an anti-drug campaign. His entrance scene into the lucky school depicted sardines in a can, with the bustling crowd squeezing and elbowing their way through to catch even…