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    my personal experience of how sports have impacted my life I can not help but disagree. As a diver, I feel there is no better piece of me to share than the identity I have taken on from the sport. What started as a summer activity to stay in shape, diving has changed the course of life forever and made me the person I am today. Going from a young kid who could not even do flip to a consistently ranked State and National diver, the sport has shown me the essence of hard work. In 2012, the London Olympics

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    19th Century Swimming

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    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

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    to do the butterfly which was difficult for me; I had water invade my nose and mouth, and I became immensely tired for it. Plus, he demonstrated the method to use the lifeguard PFD (Personal Flotation Device). Moreover, he established proper safe diving in shallow water. He gave me all the skills to become Red Cross

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    Aquatic Monologue

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    It's not something that everyone would enjoy. Clambering onto the raised, slanted platform at the sound of three, shrill blasts of a whistle. The silence of the spectators, watching in anticipation as you 'take your marks'. The shaky breaths of your competitors mixing with your own as the starter reaches for the button. And finally, as that button is pressed, the resounding buzz that changes the whole atmosphere. Swimming has always been part of my life. It started when I was very young, as my Mum

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    Swimming My extracurricular activities influenced who I am greatly. From basketball to band to swimming, each one different, but all of them taught me important life lessons. Although they are all important to me, the one extracurricular activity that has greatly impacted my life is swimming. One way swimming has impacted my life is by teaching me life lessons. Swimming taught me how to goal set which is a great tool to use in everyday life. It also taught me that if I want something I have to

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    Swimming Moment Essay

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    Finally! I did it! I did something I never thought I would be able to do. I’m now able to do a flip turn for swimming. When I was younger, about third or fourth grade, I was in competitive swimming. At the beginning of each season, we would review basics, strokes, kicks, turns, and many other fundamentals. I was never able to do a flip turn against the wall. It wasn’t until I had gone off to the side with an instructor for a few days and worked at it until I got it. I was in swimming for three

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    Separate Ways” by Ichiyo Higuchi takes place during the westernization in Japan. In the story, there are two main characters. Okyo is a woman in her twenties whose job is making Kimono, and Kichizo is 16 years old boy working at a umbrella store. Kichizo feels lonely that he doesn 't have any family and Omatsu, who is master and saved him. He find contentment from her as she is like real sister for him. When Okyo wanted to leave from his neighborhood in search of a better life and got tired of doing

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    People have been asking what FINA is going to do about the world records set using the now banned swim suits. Thirty-eight of the forty-two world records have been broken by swimmers wearing the LZR Racer while it was legal. Twenty-three of these records were set at the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing with the suits on. Ninety-four percent of the gold medals were won by people wearing these swim suits and eighty-nine percent of the total medals won were by swimmers in these illegal suits (Cole, 2008)

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    in our lives set by our parents, evolving to running fast and hard, set by ourselves later in our lives. As we explore this technique, we also get a view of a collegiate swimming team’s success and methodology. Jeff Hegle is the head swimming and diving coach at St. Cloud State University (SCSU). Jeff has been the coach at SCSU for 15 years, returning to Alma Mater years after graduating and competing. Not only in his own life but in his coaching, his athletes and himself use a modified method of

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    I’d be lying if I said I never wished for a different name. I have been made fun of plenty of times for my name, Catty. But also on the other hand people have told that they think it’s cool they have a friend named Catty! My parents were going to name me Josephina and personally I love that name. But, my grandma did not like it, so they stuck with Catherine (Catty)-- and that’s how my name came to be! As far as my name goes, it’s nothing out of the ordinary. I was named after my great grandmother

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