Lifesaving - (Tag)

Photo Courtesy: Australian Lifesaving MONTPELLIER, France, September 18. AUSTRALIAN head coach Danny Short has praised his team for “digging deep” in easily the most competitive start to any Lifesaving World Championships on record after the first day of pool lifesaving events in Montpellier today. ...

Photo Courtesy: Australian Lifesaving MONTPELLIER, France, September 19. THE Australian Life Saving Team will have to turn the clock back six years in its bid to reclaim the coveted World Lifesaving crown from arch rivals New Zealand on Sunday. After the first two days of the five-day Rescue 2014 Wo...

SYDNEY, Australia, January 22. OLYMPIC swimmer Ryan Napoleon will turn the clock back to the golden era of Australian surf-swim stars when he lines up for competition in both the pool and surf over four frantic days in two states, starting in Sydney tomorrow, Thursday. The 23-year-old Gold Coast-bas...

Photo Courtesy: Australian Lifesaving MONTPELLIER, France, September 20. AUSTRALIA will go into the final two days of beach competition at the World Life saving Championships, Rescue 2014 at Couchant Beach, La Grande Motte, 74 points behind defending champions New Zealand after a vital silver medal ...

LOS ANGELES, California, May 30. THE USA Swimming Foundation will bring the sixth annual USA Swimming Foundation's Make a Splash Tour presented by Phillips 66 to Los Angeles and Long Beach on May 30-31, 2014, respectively. The national tour will feature appearances by the new USA Swimming Foundation...

By Alex Labonge, Swimming World College Intern Swimming races regulated by USA Swimming and FINA follow a very specific and concrete set of rules.  There is very little flexibility and every race holds the same basic pieces: climbing onto starting blocks, a dive, a few turns, and a finish on a wall....

MONTPELLIER, France, September 21. TOMORROW'S final day of the National Teams competition at the World Lifesaving Championships in France will go right down to the wire on the back of Australia’s four-gold medal haul on the opening day of beach competition. The Australians left the pool and arrived ...

Brooke's back! Brooke Hanson, that is. At 41, the Aussie pool ace who followed gold and silver at Athens 2004 with a record six golds at World short-course Championships that same year, contemplated the number 100 at the Currumbin Vikings centenary last month and realised she's just a spring chicken...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, March 19. THE USA Swimming Foundation today unveiled a new look with a redesign of its primary logo and new logos for the Make a Splash initiative and the Make a Splash Tour presented by Phillips66. The new look spearheads the celebration of the USA Swimming Foundation’s ...

Greek Lifesaving Sports Association Brings Together Experts, Organizations to Push for Olympic Inclusion The Greek Lifesaving Sports Association (GLSA) convened a symposium in May that pushes for the inclusion of the sport in the Olympic program. The symposium, hosted in Greece, brought together 39 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia, July 9. THE Nautica United States Lifesaving Association (USLA) National Lifeguard Championships will return to Virginia Beach, Va. with more than 1,200 lifeguards and junior lifeguards from across the country competing for individual and team honors, on Aug. 6-9. This is t...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 21. THE USA Swimming Foundation, in association with Phillips 66, will kick off the sixth annual Make a Splash Tour presented by Phillips 66 on May 6, 2014, in Sweeny, Texas, with a series of press events, water safety information sessions and free to low-cost swimm...