The need for another indoor pool in southeastern McHenry County was raised when four Crystal Lake High School District 155 girls
swim teams said they were having trouble practicing because of an overcrowded schedule at the YMCA pool in Crystal Lake.
Kennedy is in his 29th coaching season at Johns Hopkins, but veterans of
his swim teams say you'd never know it.
Not exact matches
«I wondered for so many years what happened to Tony and wanted to know he was O.K.,»
said Kristin Krebs - Dick, captain of Yale's 1993 women's
swim team.
«I reckoned that if I could get some guys together from our «Glory Days» and
swim them against our counterparts on the same high school's
team of today,» he
said, «then even if we lost, which we surely would, we'd at least know the measure of our decline.
«We're looking for enthusiastic
team players who have strong
swimming skills and are committed to community service,»
said Kyle Maxwell, the Park District's Aquatics Assistant.
«When I first tried out for the
swimming team I wanted to be a diver,» he
said.
I'm not sure about the most inopportune time that I got my period, but I will
say any time during
swim team season in high school would qualify.
Wheeler
said the two donations would go toward scholarships for the soccer program and to the Sailfish
swim team program.
«Instead of us staying at home all day, now we can come
swimming,»
said Rick Cruz, 14, a member of the Piotrowski Park
swim team.
The park district will distribute registration information at all public elementary schools and will involve the local park
swim teams and junior lifeguards, Pecoraro
said.
Whittier
said keeping the outdoor pool open in the fall is a stopgap measure at best, and the high school
swim teams need an indoor pool for meets and practice.
«It «s like problem after problem, «
said Eddie Beltran, 16, a member of the
swim team at the West Side high school.
Doug Murphy, co-president of Chicago SMELTS, an adult competitive
swim team whose 100 members
swim laps at Gill Park, 825 W. Sheridan Rd.,
said the new fees will «have a significant impact.»
With a larger aquatic facility, Isaac
said the park district would have the ability to run several programs, such as kayak lessons, triathlon training and Aqua Zumba, at the same time as
swim team practices or
swim lessons, to generate a profit faster.
Syracuse, N.Y. — Onondaga Lake is clean enough to
swim in,
says a
team of researchers commissioned by Onondaga County.
«The
team took full advantage of its medium, with whale noises, gurgling water and entrancing word - pictures that made me feel as though I were
swimming along with Granny and her offspring,»
said Kathy Sawyer, a freelance science writer who formerly was with The Washington Post.
«It's like trying to
swim upstream in a river whose current is faster than you,»
says team member Jeff Steinhauer.
«To our knowledge, this is the first robotic fish that can
swim untethered in three dimensions for extended periods of time,»
says Robert Katzschmann, one of the
team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology behind SoFi.
In addition to teaching, Gill is also the school's student activities director, coaches the
swim team and the girl's varsity soccer
team, and is an announcer at basketball games, Foster
said.
Those who knew Nicholas through TS Aquatics, where he was a beloved
team captain known as «
Swim Daddy,»
said they loved his positive attitude and good sense of humor.
«He dreamed of making the Olympic
swim team and going to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo,» his family
said in a statement released Friday.
«To our knowledge, this is the first robotic fish that can
swim untethered in three dimensions for extended periods of time,»
says Robert Katzschmann, part of the
team behind SoFi at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
On Instagram and Facebook, Lochte
said he wore the high school
swimming team's cap — and won.
The 17 - year - old senior was recruited by the University of Indianapolis
swim team, and the
team's coach spoke at his funeral, Karcinell
said.