{"id":139099,"date":"2015-07-04T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=139099"},"modified":"2015-07-03T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:40:28","slug":"hardy-makes-splash-historic-rogers-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/hardy-makes-splash-historic-rogers-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardy Makes a Splash in Historic Rogers Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Andrew Jovanovic, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On June 13, <strong>Jessica Hardy<\/strong>\u00a0represented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=2093\">USA Swimming<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=2093\"> Foundation&#8217;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=2093\">s<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=2093\"> Make A Splash Tour<\/a> at High Ridge YMCA in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the north-side of Chicago. 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There are approximately 63,000 residents speaking 80 different languages in 1.8 square miles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the biggest impacts of this program was having an Olympian come into THIS community, a community that doesn&#8217;t have that many people swimming and it&#8217;s not part of the [previous] culture here,&#8221; said 46-year-old <strong>Malcolm Rogers,\u00a0<\/strong>a Chicago-native from Rogers Park and works at the High Ridge YMCA.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141030\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-malcolm-rogers-makeasplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141030\" data-attachment-id=\"141030\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/hardy-makes-splash-historic-rogers-park\/jessica-hardy-malcolm-rogers-makeasplash\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-malcolm-rogers-makeasplash.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4288,2848\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1434205569&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jessica-hardy-malcolm-rogers-makeasplash\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Jessica Hardy and Malcolm Rogers introduce the water to a new swimmer &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Andrew Jovanovic &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-malcolm-rogers-makeasplash-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-malcolm-rogers-makeasplash-1024x680.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141030\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-malcolm-rogers-makeasplash-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"jessica-hardy-malcolm-rogers-makeasplash\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Andrew Jovanovic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I think the greatest impact today with this event was having people not only in the water and experiencing it, but also understanding how to use the water purposefully,&#8221; Rogers said.<\/p>\n<p>There were new faces,\u00a0mixed\u00a0with former and future swimmers, ranging from all ages in attendance. 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Even though the true amount of summer enrollments will be assessed when public pools close in September, a huge impact was made on the kids who came to the Tour and met an Olympian.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141032\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-parents-makeasplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141032\" data-attachment-id=\"141032\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/hardy-makes-splash-historic-rogers-park\/jessica-hardy-parents-makeasplash\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-parents-makeasplash.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4288,2848\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1434205231&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;48&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jessica-hardy-parents-makeasplash\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Jessica Hardy with Parents in Rogers Park.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Andrew Jovanovic &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-parents-makeasplash-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-parents-makeasplash-1024x680.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141032\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jessica-hardy-parents-makeasplash-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"jessica-hardy-parents-makeasplash\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Andrew Jovanovic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was her second stop on the tour after a pool visit earlier in the day, but Hardy continued to smile as she signed over 100 autographs and took dozens of pictures with wide-eyed future swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The coolest moment of today was seeing kids who were petrified of the water transfer that fear into having fun,&#8221; Hardy said. &#8220;But that fear is real and genuine; transforming that fear into having fun and being safe is what this is all about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Jovanovic, Swimming World College Intern On June 13, Jessica Hardy\u00a0represented USA Swimming Foundation&#8217;s Make A Splash Tour at High Ridge YMCA in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":141029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[52383,25034,52384,142,33366],"class_list":["post-139099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-usa","tag-alexis-seeger","tag-jessica-hardy","tag-malcolm-rogers","tag-swimming","tag-usa-swimming-foundation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Hardy Makes a Splash in Historic Rogers Park<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On June 13, Jessica Hardy represented USA Swimming Foundation&#039;s Make A Splash Tour at High Ridge YMCA in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the north-side of Chicago. 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