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6 Reasons Why Everyone Should Learn to Swim The benefits of swimming are endless, and your child should learn to swim as early as possible. As we celebrate National Learn to Swim Day on May 21, here's why: 1. It’s essential to safety. According to the National Safe Kids Campaign, drowning is the sec...

A Look at Some Common Pre-Race Rituals; Share Your Go-To Habits By Kelsey Lynch Let's say one time, a few years ago, you jumped up and down four times before you produced your best race ever, and now before every race you must jump up and down exactly four times—no more, no less. Maybe you press you...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern Originally posted January 22, 2015 I have been training and racing distance events for most of my 15-year competitive swimming career. Most distance swimmers can vouch for this, but I can’t remember a time when I ever said, “Wow I love swimming the 500,...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern The A-10 Conference closed its 2014-2015 season in February with a bang. The University of Massachusetts men's team won the men's Atlantic 10 Championship title this year, and the University of Richmond women took home the trophy on the women's side. Th...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern  GENEVA - The 2015 Atlantic 10 Swimming and Diving Championships began on Feb. 18. The 200-yard IM relay, Women's 1-meter diving, and the 800-yard freestyle relay opened the meet on Wednesday evening. St. Bonaventure's men and Richmond's women are predi...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern An acrostic poem on how to have the best taper of your life: T: TIMING. First you must figure out when exactly the most appropriate time is for you to start your taper. Do you need one, two, or three weeks of taper? As you progress as a swimmer, you beg...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern KINGSTON- Once in a while, if you’re extremely lucky, you will meet someone like Natalie Lewis. She graduated from the University of Richmond in 2011 with a degree in art history and a minor in elementary education. Lewis dedicated four years to Richmon...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern SARASOTA- Atlantic 10 Swimming schools are now swimming through the most grueling part of their seasons, as they have traveled southbound to different locations to train outside in the sunshine. For the University of Richmond and the University of Rhode...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern Imagine this: You are German Tanja Kirmse. You’re just 16 years old, and you decide that you want to spend your time as a college student-athlete in a country across the Atlantic Ocean. Then you begin this chapter a few months later, and earning a spot ...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern KINGSTON - How does Atlantic 10 swimming push through these last weeks of its demanding training schedules without losing sight of what’s so close ahead? There’s less than two months left of the season for the A-10 Conference, and swimmers know this is ...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern KINGSTON - There are no meets during the next few weeks for the Atlantic 10 Swimming Conference, but after the holiday teams will travel to where it’s warm and train harder than ever this season. Since these training trips follow the holiday break, swim...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern KINGSTON - It’s that time of year again. Winter National Championships time, that is. Held this year in Greensboro, N.C., the USA Swimming Nationals is an opportunity for college-level swimmers to compete with Olympians. In some cases this means racing ...

By Kelsey Lynch, Swimming World College Intern KINGSTON – University of Rhode Island senior captain Emily Thomesen dedicated 10 weeks of her summer in 2014 to listening to the voices of young mothers in Uganda, a country torn by war between the government and rebels. A Pharmaceutical and Biological ...