The Ram 1500 TRX can do a lot of things, but swimming isn’t on the list, as there isn’t a dedicated Water mode alongside Sport, Snow, Mud / Sand, Rock, Baja, and Custom modes. Not only that, but Ram advises against driving in water “unless the depth is known andRead More →
90 years ago, on August 2, 1931, world famous long distance swimmer Miss Mercedes Gleitz attempted to swim from the Aran Islands to Salthill. She did indeed manage to swim from Inis Meán to Spiddal in 18 hours 43 minutes, a distance of 18 miles as the crow flies, butRead More →
Could a swim club help generate some form of “college activism”? This is the question explored by David Raymond Jones, professor in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Northumbria, in a new article published in the British Journal of Educational Research. In 2009, he writes, heRead More →
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IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. (WLUC) – At Iron Mountain’s Northern Lights YMCA, the pool is about to get a lot busier. “Registrations are only opening right now. We have five week sessions that take the form of one lesson per week or two per week, ”said Tanner Walsh, aquatic director ofRead More →
The Olympics still shine the spotlight on many sports that are generally not considered mainstream. This includes synchronized swimming, although internationally the sport is now called artistic swimming. Maine only has one synchronized swimming club, and they are only a few years old. Maine Synchro in Portland was established inRead More →
A SWIMMING club in Maidenhead has seen dozens of parents asking their children to start lessons since Tom Dean became a two-time Olympic gold champion. Members of the Maidenhead Marlins Swimming Club committee told the Windsor Observer how Tom Dean inspired many people, young and old, to take up swimmingRead More →