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4 Swim Parent Tips About Olympic Dreams After talking with parents of Olympians, I discovered they don’t push their kids. Instead, they put zero limitations on their kids’ dreams. They are encouraging, hopeful and never say it’s impossible. It’s easy to put limitations on our own dreams and our kids’ dreams, too. Maybe we’re protecting them from disappointment? If we let our kids discover for themselves what they are capable of, and don’t interfere in the process, there’s no telling what they’ll achieve. Here are my tips...
Taylor Cassels Named CVST March SOM The Carrolllwood Village Swim Team has named Taylor Cassels (8) as the March Swimmer of the Month. Swimming at the Florida Swimming Area 3 Championships in St. Petersburg, Florida, the 8 year old Silver practice group swimmer raced to 8 best times out of 8 events. For the month, Taylor dropped a total of 46.66 seconds with her biggest drop occurring in the 10 and Under Girls 200 yard Freestyle with a betterment of21.13 seconds. Taylor averaged a 7.38 percent improvement in...
Watch Missy Franklin GoPro trailer for series, ‘Finding Missy’ From NBCSports.com GoPro teased a look into the life of four-time Olympic champion Missy Franklin in an 88-second spot published on its YouTube channel Monday morning. The two-part series will be split into two April installments starting April 11, according to the trailer video’s YouTube description. More from the YouTube description... Click Here
What Your Lane Order Says About You By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent Throughout my swim career, I’ve experienced every facet of the hierarchical stratum of the Lane Order: I’ve been the Last Person in the Lane — that guy the faster swimmers passive-aggressively flip-turn over and think, “Will this dude switch lanes already?” I’ve been in the gruesome Middle Pack: that wild free-for-all collective where hardly any rules apply, where feet and fists fling into each other’s faces, where each swimmer just tries as best they can to keep rank....
Not-So Official Guide to Lane Ethics By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent In last week’s article, I discussed scenarios that may or may not justify the phenomenon known as “Lane Rage” — an otherwise unpleasant reaction involving splashing, thrashing, and spinning arms in response to some violation of Lane Ethics. To which I received an email from a loyal reader asking what are, exactly, “Lane Ethics?” Lane Ethics means a “standards of courtesy when swimming in a lane.” It is a series of rules not to be violated; a “sharing-the-lane-code,” if...
Repak Medals at All-Star Meet Jayden Repak with his medals from the All Star Meet! #boss #FloridaStyle
Top Reasons for Young Swimmers to Avoid Dietary Supplements By Chris Rosenbloom, PhD, RDN, CSSD You’ve probably read about tennis athlete Maria Sharapova using a banned substance, meldonium. This substance was only recently added to the World Anti-Doing Agency (WADA) banned substance list, and Sharapova said she had been taking it for many years. It is used to treat heart problems, but it also can enhance exercise performance and has been under watch by WADA for a while. USA Swimming as a strict regarding dietary supplement use and tells all...
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