On Thursday, June 22, the Blythe Desert Dolphins hosted their second home swim meet, where they competed against the Brawley Sunstrokers and the Holtville Stingrays at the Palo Verde High School pool. The Desert Dolphins went head to head with 34 Brawley swimmers and 13 Holtville swimmers. Making a huge splash in the water, tough competitors from the Desert Dolphins swam hard and did their best to take home well-deserved ribbons in each category. With dynamic strokes and fast speed, the dolphins glided through the water effortlessly, completing 25 and 50 yards per event. Doing the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle, some notable performances from the meet were by: 6-year-old Joseph Hawpe taking home 2nd place in the 25-yard …show more content…
Competing in the backstroke portion of the swim meet, Emma Barron (6), Jaden Schlueter (6), Luke Sutterfield (7) and Dane Joslin (14) all swam away with first place ribbons from each of their age categories. Jisselle Cano (6) and Charlotte Dagnino (10) were the only Blythe Desert Dolphins to place first in the breaststroke against Brawley and Holtville, but eight other dolphins took home second place, including Marley Armenta (6), Wesley Dill (8), Addison Mefford (11), Conner Coverdale (12), Laura Tellez (13), Dane Joslin (14), Riley Mefford (16) and 15-year-old Brian Johnson. Dramatizing up to be a tough part of the competition for the dolphins, Blythe swimmers who walked away from the freestyle portion of the meet with third place were Emma Barron (6) and Hunter Ford (6) in the 25-yard, Daniel Gregory (8) Charlotte Dagnino (10), Tommy Houston (9)Conner Coverdale (12) in the boys 50-yard and Brennen Copple boys (15). However, Zane De Leon (6) Nathan Thomas and Riley Mefford, were the only dolphins to place first in the freestyle competition. The next home swim meet will be this Thursday, June 29, at 5
I was an active member of the Varsity Swim team this year at School. I was swam 50 free, 50 back and in two relays. I personally came 8th in 50 back at the CISAA finals and our team was awarded CISAA Coed Champions
By the age of nineteen he beat the reigning AAU endurance champion herbert brennan in the one mile race then the next year he beat him again in the ten mile race by one mile during one of of his ten miles races he dislocated his arm and still swam beating an olympic gold medal winner but he ended up not winning. From ages twenty four through thirty four he won every race held in the Gulf Of Mexico.
Continuing his winning streak, he went and won fifty-two National Championship titles and broke over fifty records in swimming. He continued winning all the way to the Olympic Trials for Paris 1924 and swept past his rivals. He was on his way to the Olympics where he won 3 gold medals in the 100 and 400 free and in the 4x200 freestyle relay. He also took home a bronze alongside the mens' water polo team. He was an astounding athlete and all of his rivals feared
Senior Caitlyn Faulhaber was the top Centenary finisher in 1:11:56.7 to place 22nd. Sophomore Tori Boyle finished 29th with a time of 1:15:15.6. Sophomore Jessi Jordan rounded out the Ladies contingent, finishing 32nd with a time of
Another event for the Australians on the fourth day of the Games was the 200 m freestyle. Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband had broken the world record in the semi-finals, taking it from the new Australian hero Ian Thorpe, who came close to the world record in his semi-final heat. As the final race finished, Van den Hoogenband's time was exactly the same as in the semi-finals, finishing ahead of Thorpe by half a second.
Dawn Fraser was a brilliant swimmer, one of the most dominant in the world during the 1950s and 60s. She was the first ever to win the same event at three consecutive Olympics. She was the first female to swim 100m freestyle in less than a minute, and later set an astounding world record of 58.9secs – a time that remained the world's best for 14 years.
Right out of the gate in the high school boys race, everybody knew Junior Zach Kreft from Buckeye Valley would run away with the victory but the 2nd overall finisher was still a question. Freshman Luke Malone and Gavin Frick worked off each other the entire race moving from as far as 17th and 18th place early on to finishing 2nd and 4th. The two were able to run a 5:17 and 10:52 for their mile splits. At the end, Malone was just able to beat out Frick and Sophomore Adam Brown from North Union to race into 2nd place racing to a PR of 16:58. Frick was able to PR, finishing just behind Malone running a 17:03. The two were able to beat Buckeye Valley’s number two,
Swimming with dolphins is special, no matter where you do it. But in Punta Cana, it’s even more so. That’s because, unlike other facilities, where you
The journey of competitive swimming started at the age of eight for my local `neighborhood team. I exhibited great potential for the future, for I won nearly all my races. This seemed like the sport
There are so many interesting things about them. Dolphins have been around for about 15 million years now. They’re extremely intelligent, probably even more intelligent than us humans. Dolphins are becoming endangered because of humans and many don't know that. They are known as the oceans most kind animals.Dolphins have originated millions of years ago,are extremely endangered,and are becoming endangered.The most important thing to know about dolphins would probably be how they originated because without that those cute aquatic mammals wouldn't even exist.
The Shark Team ranges from 40 to 60 swimmers during the year and Coach Price realizes how fortunate they are, that Harding University allows the team is to use their pool and track.
Randall Wells and his team observed groups of male dolphin behavior in Sarasota Bay, Florida.
One of the amazing things about dolphins that she mentions in her essay “Dolphins and Men...Equals?” is their sense of humor. She explains that dolphins have been seen to maneuver behind an unsuspecting pelican and snatch its tail feathers, usually leaving the bird minus a few. Other times dolphins have been noticed to grab unsuspecting fish by the tail, pulling them backward a few feet as well as playing with slow turtles by rolling them over and over (Blackstock). When I was looking for information about dolphins and their sense of humor I found an interesting joke about them that I would like to share with you. It comes from Lori’s Mishmash Humor Page and it says: “Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand at the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?”(Lori) This of course may not be true but the fact is that the great intelligence of dolphins makes them realize that after they finish a task as they are told they are given fish. They also realize that if they are not given fish for what they do, they may choose not to do it until they are fed.
This made my body less buoyant and my speed somewhat slow. There were two sixteen year old girls in the lanes on either side of me who swam with the agility of dolphins. These girls and everyone else beat me to the finish, which did not help my nineteen-year-old ego. I wanted to crawl away and hide but was determined not to let myself be outdone.
Maui Dolphins are a very rare species with only 55 left in the world. (1) (28) (11) (13) They are a subspecies of the Hector’s dolphins and are found on the West Coast of the North Island in New Zealand between Dargaville and New Plymouth. (1) (13) (2) (28) Maui Dolphins are recognised by their “rounded back dorsal fin” and by their distinctive colouring around their snout of grey, white and black markings. (1) They are approximately around 1.2- 1.4m long with a weight of up to 50kg and feed on small fish such as squid, flatfish and cod. (3) (1) (2) (13) Unfortunately, the Maui Dolphins are very critically endangered being described as the most “endangered” dolphin in “the world”. (17)