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    Although October has just began, swimmers gear up for the new season that begins on November 7th. Many of the HHS competitive swimmers look to the VAST Gators’ Clinics in order to improve their technique and return to the swimming mindset. Annually, the High School Clinic is offered to help swimmers improve endurance, practice their starts and turns, and work on their strokes. Urie Connis has been attending the clinic for four years and has been swimming competitively for HHS for just as long.

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    For instance, I learned and mastered swimming techniques and strokes. There are four different styles in swimming: butterfly, backstroke, freestyle and break stroke. I divided the fours strokes into two groups: the complex styles and the not so complex styles. The most complex styles are the butterfly stroke and the break stroke, while the not so complex are the backstroke and freestyle. The butterfly stroke is really complex because it needs a lot of technical and physical strength, to be done correctly

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    [Mid Shot of me standing in front the green/blue screen] Steve: “Its been 2 weeks since we had sports so I’m here to talk to you about it” (Intro happens) Steve: “So we’re going to start with a few forms of great news. Later on tonight Bryce Niewoehner will compete in the State Finals for Wrestling! And Brea Toppen finished second in the Marsh Indy-star player of the month! She received 13,864 votes! As for this week Boys Swimming will have Sectional Finals tomorrow in Crown Point at 1:00 along

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    Who would have thought that one swim meet could spark an interest and love for a sport for years to come? That is my mindset when I look back on that one swim meet. Three years ago, it was my first year of swimming competitively; In February of 2015 I attended my first swim meet. I was very hesitant when signing up because I get anxiety attacks about major events such as: swim meets, presentations, and big tests. Tired of my coach hearing my coach say, “Sign up or I will make you do burpees”, I finally

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    Swimming Sectionals Sectionals, a very prestigious swim meet that is hard to swim in. This swim meet takes a whole season to get ready for and you have to meet standards for. For this meet you have to have very fast times and it has very fast swimmers. When I set goals that season this was one of them. Through the months, prior to this swim meet, I had to train for it get times and work hard. It would take a lot of commitment, sweat, and get the times to be able to smell the chlorine of that pool

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    mother of two said, "Everyone was of different shapes, sizes, ages but all bursted with acceptance, courage, happiness and gratefulness! It was a celebration...a joyous celebration of our bodies." "Half way through the 900m swim as I started doing backstroke, I couldnt help but giggle as I saw my body exposed to the sky, my post baby breasts bobbing around in the water, my child bearing hips and my legs jiggling as they kicked behind me. At that moment I felt a rush of appreciation of my body, what

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    This swimsuit has LZR Pulse fabric, low-profile seams and the best-selling “Recordbreaking” back styling. While in the suit, I have won awards, such as 3rd place in the 200 meter backstroke at Wyoming’s USA Swimming Summer State. I’ve won many others, including High-Point Earner last year, and sixth in the 100 backstroke at 2010 Wyoming State Swimming Championships, and those are just the main awards. This suit technology has helped me in my swimming, to win, yes, but also to be more confident in

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    when people asked me what my biggest fear is I would often lie and say I was deadly afraid of spiders or the dark. But, there was actually a real fear which I obtained. It was the 200 IM, a swimming event which consists of 50 yard of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Every swimmer has that one event which the dread or wish didn 't exist. For different swimmers, this “Event of Doom” may vary from the 500 yard freestyle or the 200 yard butterfly. For some there may be a story behind

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    Why Swimming Is Good For You Swimming is a sport that is popular and competitive around the world. It is a large part of the Olympics and is also good for your health. Swimming is considered one of the sports that is healthiest for your body, and has been around since 2500 BC. It is good for your cardiovascular health, muscle endurance, losing weight along with a lot of other health benefits. Endurance is the ability of the muscles to perform repeated submaximal contractions over time. Swimming

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    key features of the promotion of uniformity of rules and regulations across Australia. Swimming could be an individual or team sport , the sport has to be played in a pool or in open water. It has different types of events, such as , butterfly, backstroke, individual medley, breaststroke, freestyle. You have to wear a certain type of swimsuit in order to participate. There are 4 types of swim events : 100m , 200m , and 400m. Participants can be awarded by winning numerous amounts of swim meets,

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