Sentences with phrase «of swimmers on»

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«I have a picture of a swimmer on my fridge with a quote, «Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments,»» she says.

Not exact matches

Whether it's the type of bathing suit you wear, the way you jump off the diving board, or how much hair you have on your head, swimmers do a lot to make sure they get across the pool as fast as possible.

And through his research on what separated the performance of Olympic swimmers from others who didn't fare as well, Dan Chambliss came to a similar conclusion:

For those on the tightest of budgets, the IPX7 - rated Polk Boom Swimmer Jr. plays fuller and louder than its diminutive size would suggest, and has a flexible tail that lets it easily wrap around a showerhead.

The arena fell silent before the starting gun sent them off on two lengths of the pool in what swimmers consider the most punishing stroke.

In case you haven't caught the latest news story about the incident involving Olympic swimmers in Rio, here's the gist of it — Lochte told the Today Show that he and three of his teammates were robbed at gunpoint after they went out for a night on the town.

There is not a better example of this then the most recent summer Olympics with the Phelps beating out the South African swimmer who so focused on beating Phelps and slamming Phelps in the media.

Nicholas, a senior, was a competitive swimmer who planned to attend the University of Indianapolis in the fall on an athletic scholarship.

The rural rhythms of southern Ontario were the childhood backdrop for Tony Dekker, and they continue to play out on each and every recording of Great Lake Swimmers.

He used an analogy to describe this stage — that of sitting on a riverbank preaching» «helpful» sermons to the swimmers struggling in the current.

If, on the other hand, you imagine yourself inside the body of the swimmer, such that your arms are moving in front of you and water is splashing at your sides, you are assuming a first - person perspective.

He wanted to avoid the life of faith by moving from one sure sign to another, just as the learner - swimmer wants to move through the pool with his hand on one rail after another.

In opting for swimming, Kiki chose perhaps the toughest of disciplines: long hours of arm - heavy laps in the practice pool, where the only view is a shadowy blue blur that may be another swimmer or one's own imagination; the greedy slap and gurgle of arms (reach, grab, recover, reach, as the late Matt Mann rationalized it); the ring around the eyeballs, endemic to the competitive swimmer, caused by chlorine, which makes the whole wide world glow with halos on the way home from practice.

I think they have a good understanding of the strokes, which in time, as they watch other swimmers and learn new techniques, they will carry over into their training and they will improve on their times.

With a dominant win in the men's 200 IM on Thursday, Michael Phelps became the first men's swimmer to win an individual gold medal in a single event in three consecutive Olympics, and likely ended for good any discussion about whether he or Ryan Lochte is the star of London.

Unlike the trackman, the swimmer races in his heat not only to make the final but to earn a specific lane near the center, where in the confusion of a race he can keep some sort of eye on the men he must beat.

I flash on the recent story of the Florida swimmers attacked by ravenous bluefish.

On Sunday afternoon, as Hall stood in Memorial Union's Tudor Room, where Counsilman used to treat swimmers who had a 3.0 GPA or better to dinner, he recalled an image of his coach from that same meet.

Ryan Lochte, a 2 - time NCAA Swimmer of the Year at the University of Florida, appeared on College GameDay on Saturday before the Florida - South Carolina game.

Alta Briggs — The Folsom Sea Otters swimmer qualified for the finals of the Suburban Swim League Championship Meet in four individual events and was on 200 medley and 200 freestyle relay teams in the finals as well.

On the girls» side, Calton and Fitzgerald are veteran swimmers who Sherman expects to medal in a number of events.

It was an effort that cemented her status as one of the section's best swimmers of all time (12 golds, five NCS records, 2 national records over four years) and one to watch on the national stage in the years to come.

The American squad's most dazzling innovation is the double tower lift, in which two swimmers, perched one on top of the other, are hoisted out of the water by an underwater support beam made up of six teammates — whose feet, of course, aren't allowed to touch the bottom of the pool.

Long passages are devoted to Smith's irritation with Irish swimming authorities, U.S. reporters and U.S. swimmer Janet Evans, who might have invented a new form of indictment in Atlanta when she said, regarding Smith's possible use of banned drugs, «There are a lot of accusations going on around the poolside, and I'm not making any of them.»

«On one half of the frame you've got a pair of prosthetics in a basket used to hold the swimmer's clothes.

I found myself thinking of the summer outdoor meets — the sun on the hard blue water with schlock music over the loudspeaker and the girl swimmers, whom we saw only at those kinds of meets, with their strong tanned necks and their nipples showing under their nylon tank suits.

The six - time conference Coach of the Year has tutored the NCAA Swimmer of the Year nine times and the Pac - 12 Swimmer of the Year on seven occasions.

Just one year ago, this team of swimmers and their coaches set out to achieve the goal of not only winning Gold at every American meet they attended, but trying to get U.S. back on the podium of an International meet and they succeeded.

Often swimming thousands of yards in the pool each day, swimmers put a great deal of stress on their shoulders.

The swimmer will start from Cap Gris Nez on the last two hours of the ebb tide.

It is this second leg, on the flood tide, that makes the France - England crossing «downhill,» for it carries the swimmer north for 5 1/2 hours and should leave him just southwest of the Goodwin Sands — a notorious graveyard studded with hulls and masts, including those of the Spanish Armada.

We stood together on the beach for two or three minutes while Tony had a hot drink — remember, the air's colder than the water at that time of year, so you have to keep your swimmer in the water — and Tony waded back in.

Missy Franklin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Allison Schmitt set the new all - time mark with a time of 3:52.05, beating out second - place Australia by nearly two full seconds to put the exclamation point on yet another dominant Olympiad for American swimmers.

But at night sudden stabs of pain raise welts on the swimmer's body.

California swimmers scored big time in Portugal at the U.S. 13 - 15 National Synchronized Swimming Team where Team USA won bronze in the team final Sunday on the final day of the Mediterranean Cup.

As Marc Courtney - Brooks touched the wall well ahead of the field on the anchor leg of the season - ending 400 - yard freestyle relay, his coach, the irrepressible Jim Steen, bear - hugged his swimmers and acknowledged the boisterous cheers emanating from the purple - clad Kenyon College section at the St. Peters Rec - Plex in St. Louis.

If you would like to see these talented swimmers and their teams perform, mark your calendar for the upcoming Celebration of Champions Synchronized Swimming Exhibition taking place at Clarke Memorial Swim Center at Heather Farm park in Walnut Creek on Saturday, June 15 4 - 8:00 p.m. Tickets are Adults (18 +) $ 15; Seniors and Children (6 - 17) $ 10; 5 and Under Free.

Figuring that he would never get a chance to compete as a swimmer, he gave up the sport and instead began concentrating on kayak racing and surf - ski racing, both popular pastimes in the coastal communities of his country.

«Bands» are long sections of thick surgical tubing attached to a swimmer and a pool wall, while «belts» have plastic cups on them that increase a swimmer's drag and «baskets» are plastic milk crates filled with barbell weights and hooked by rope and pulley onto the swimmer.

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A spirited basketball game is going on in the gym, and the pool is full of shouting swimmers.

In 1986 she won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Gamesl, and was a 14 - time All - American swimmer at the University of Texas, where she swam on three NCAA championship teams for the Lady Longhorns.

Marzillo said that on one occasion, the family tired of seeking a parking place outside the packed Community Park pool, so they ventured back to their old haunt: Palatine's Willow Park pool, which was barren of swimmers.

On hot days, the facilities have been packing in swimmers, in some cases reaching their capacities of 1,000 or more.

On Thursday I was coaching swim practice and a mom of one of my swimmers who also happens to read the blog came up to me.

Embattled Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte will appear on the next season of «Dancing With the Stars,» as will former Texas Gov. Rick Perry; Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez; model Amber Rose; and Maureen McCormick, who may be better known as Marcia Brady.

If you are a runner, a swimmer, a diver, or a triathlete, this is the kind of watch you want on your wrist at all times.

They are also the most efficient swimmers ever studied, among the most ancient animals surviving on Earth today and some of the most toxic sea creatures (SN: 9/6/14, p. 16).

The species, native to the Caspian and Black Sea basins, was well known on that side of the Atlantic for its ability to fuse to any hard surface, growing in wickedly sharp clusters that can bloody boaters» hands and swimmers» feet, plug pipes, foul boat bottoms and suck the plankton — the life — out of the waters they invade.