My Sport Is Swimming

I posses a fondness for the sports basketball and track. I love how the adrenaline just pumps into my veins with a rush I can’t quite explain. It is this passion for sports that I also share with my passion for the medical field. Most sports need practice

I have always played sports. Softball, soccer, and swimming before I started kindergarten, later, basketball and volleyball. My passion is and always has been softball. I love competing and being able to make friendships and memories with my teammates that will last a lifetime.

Sports have been a huge part of my life ever since I was about five years old. It has impacted my life so much. The biggest challenge that I faced was with my injuries during basketball and soccer season. I recently had to quit soccer and basketball, which was difficult for me.

I found my love for athletic activity at a young age. When I was 7 years old, I was enrolled in a YMCA summer program in Michigan. That is where it all started. My summer days were filled with various sport activities. Unfortunately, when I moved to California at the age of 10, I stopped playing sports for at least a year. However, during the rest of elementary school, throughout middle school, and in high school, I played different sports to figure out which one I liked best, which is now, Track & Field.

"BEEEEEP!" Turning off the familiar but annoying sound of the alarm, lying in bed until the last possible second, I admit: this is the big day. All those practices and early mornings will be rewarded today. Finally crawling out of bed to get ready for the meet, I grab my goggles, a towel, water, and a quick breakfast on the way out the door. Checking in with the coach before finding the rest of the team as the pool area becomes louder with every passing minute while more and more people arrive at the big event. Sitting and resting, I try to save all my energy for the race. I put my headphones in and turn music on as I try to begin to focus. Talking to friends to try to calm nerves. It is time.

I have always loved sports ever since I was a little kid. Some of my earliest memories are of playing soccer with my friends on a wet, cold spring day or hitting a ball off of a tee and feeling like it went a mile, when in reality it only went about fifty feet. Even to this day I still can never get enough of sports. I get about four weeks off out of the entire year where I’m not technically in a sport, but I’m still always practicing and trying to get better because that’s the only way I know. I love everything about sports: the friendships, the competition, the passion, the atmosphere, the unity. Sports are one of my true loves and they consume my life. It is this strong desire that I have for sports that has driven me to want to pursue a

My very favorite sport to play is rodeo. Rodeo is such a great sport I love it for the adrenalin rush the people and all the life skill that com with it you would be amazed by the stuff you could

My entire family is an athletic family, everyone did or does sports. However, I never really enjoyed sports to the extent that my family did. I tried to find something I had a passion for, but didn't really find anything until I was in 5th grade. A time that I was open to growth was my entire time in Phoenix Boys Choir.

I absolutely love sports. From football to soccer I love all sports, some more than others. My top 3 sports however are baseball, football, and basketball. I have been playing baseball since I was 2 years old. Baseball is a sport that many find boring but not me. Over the years I have been to several Atlanta Braves games and caught a few souvenirs as well. I’ve been a football fan since I was a young child. My favorite team is the Atlanta Falcons and I know the team inside and out. I know every player, coach, what players hold certain records and so forth. Football might be the one sport that I take more seriously than any other. Basketball is a sport that I played as a child, but as I grew older watching became more interesting than

A large number of swimmers don’t like it, whether that be because of the sheer difficulty, or because swimming makes them anxious, or because they’ve simply been swimming for so long that they are no longer entertained. The last option is the one that seems to hold true for most club swimmers who no longer find joy in the sport, the ones who have been doing it for five, eight, even eleven years. Those are the people who are simply tired of it. I, on the other hand, love swimming and the feeling of gliding though the water. People will tell you that no one, in any sport, really enjoys practices, but I can honestly tell you that I do. For at least the last five months I have looked forward to swim practice everyday. If nothing else, I know that I have an outlet for my anger, frustration, or any other emotion that I may have. At best, I know that I have a group of friends who are all working to achieve the same goal as I am and that I can always lean on them for support and they can always lean on me, if need be. The feeling of swimming a good race is one of the best feelings in the world. When you can tell that you're just flying through the water and you have everyone’s attention and you know that you're better than you were the last time you raced, better than you were yesterday. I guess maybe that’s the thing I like about practice, that everyday I’m

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

The Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA), the governing body for international competitive swimming, regulates everything swim related.

It is important to first understand the complex and structured program that college swimmers have to follow with discipline in order to meet the high expectations of elite athletic departments. According to research, the amount of physical training for swimmers has greatly increased over the last decades (Bompa, 1985; Murphy, Fleck, Dudley & Callister, 1990). A combination of intensity, duration and frequency of training stimuli is a key characteristic for efficient training (Faude, Meyer, Scharhag, Weins, Urhausen & Kindermann). There is evidence that exponential increases in volume of physical training will increase an athlete’s physiological capacity which often leads to increases in performance

Swimming became a true sport in the 19th century when Great Britain began to start holding competitions to see who could get from one side of the pool to the other the fastest. The first type of stroke that they used was breaststroke because that was the easiest way to swim at the time while still being able to breathe. As time progressed the British started using a stroke called the forward crawl with a scissor kick, however a man named Frederick Cavill in 1887 traveled to the South Seas and saw people using the forward crawl but with a flutter kick which is now our modern day freestyle. Swimming first became featured in the Olympics in 1896 and the only strokes that were raced were Freestyle and Breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904

Watching the screen, many children and adults are glued to the swimmers that race each other in the Olympics. The swimmers are young and strong, but many do not know who these swimmers are. Adding on to what they do not know contains the history of swimming in the glorified Olympics. The backstory of this sporting event shows the progression and improvement of swimming because swimming evolved through the Olympics. This includes the beginning, improvement, and modern Olympic swimming sport.