Members of the Dartmouth swimming and diving program orchestrated a demonstration at the college this week using hundreds of goggles to underscore its value to the community.<\/p>\n
The Dartmouth swimming team chose to illustrate its impact by placing 853 pairs of goggles on the campus green Wednesday morning, a demonstration they called<\/a>, “Goggles on the Green”. Each pair represents a young swimmer who has received swim lessons from team members over the last five years.<\/p>\n “It’s really important that the school knows that by eliminating the swim team, they have eliminated effectively the Upper Valley’s biggest water safety program,” junior Susannah Laster<\/strong> said in an interview with WMUR<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dartmouth swimmers purchased the goggles for the demonstration and will donate them to Trident Swim Foundation in New York.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 800+ children! That\u2019s how many kids our team has taught to swim over the last 5 years. Today, we filled the college Green, the main lawn in front of the library, with goggles representing each child whose life we have touched with this critical life skill. It\u2019s symbolic of the broad reach our team has on our campus and community. Because we aren\u2019t just swimmers, and we aren\u2019t just divers. And we have the power and talent to make valuable contributions to the college community and beyond. We implore the administration to reverse its decision to cut our program and allow us to keep doing – and sharing – the sports we love.<\/a><\/p>\n A post shared by SAVE DCSD ?\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/a> (@save_dartmouthswimdive) on \n